SimpleBLE v0.11.0 - Introducing Peripheral Mode for Linux

Hey everybody, SimpleBLE v0.11.0 is finally live! We focused on making the most versatile Bluetooth library even more useful.

For those who don’t know, SimpleBLE is a cross-platform Bluetooth library with a very simple API that just works, allowing developers to easily integrate it into their projects without much effort, instead of wasting hours and hours on development. 

This release mainly focuses on a single big feature for Linux that has been a year in the making: BLE Peripheral support.

This means your Linux machine can now:
• Advertise as a BLE device
• Expose GATT services and characteristics
• Act as a complete peripheral



Why does this matter?

If you thought using Central roles with the native Bluetooth stacks was hard, Peripheral takes this to a whole new level. It took us a very long time to find the right data representations that could abstract this problem away cleanly, but we’ve finally reached a point we feel comfortable sharing with a wider audience.

This barrier is now gone, and with it a whole new world of possibilities opens up: Building custom peripheral applications, device emulators or hardware mocks, all without any extra hardware. I’m excited to see what new ideas come to life based on this new capability.

You can find our Peripheral-specific examples here and here. Things might still break or change as we improve it and work towards a generalized API for all other OSes, but should be good enough to start validating ideas. We’d love to hear about your experience!



Want to know more about SimpleBLE's capabilities or see what others are building with it? Ask away! 

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