bleak
=====

Bleak is an acronym for Bluetooth Low Energy platform Agnostic Klient.

* Free software: MIT license
* Documentation: https://bleak.readthedocs.io.

Bleak is a GATT client software, capable of connecting to BLE devices
acting as GATT servers. It is designed to provide a asynchronous,
cross-platform Python API to connect and communicate with e.g. sensors.


Features
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* Supports Windows 10, version 16299 (Fall Creators Update) or greater
* Supports Linux distributions with BlueZ >= 5.43 (See :ref:`linux-backend` for more details)
* OS X/macOS support via Core Bluetooth API, from at least OS X version 10.11

Bleak supports reading, writing and getting notifications from
GATT servers, as well as a function for discovering BLE devices.

Contents:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   installation
   usage
   api/index
   backends/index
   troubleshooting
   contributing
   authors
   history

Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`
