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server, and which TCP port to contact UxPlay on. A python script
(Python \>=3.6) "uxplay-beacon.py", to broadcast the
Service-Discovery advertisement will be installed on systems with
DBus support (Linux and \*BSD, using Bluez for Bluetooth control):
DBus support (Linux and \*BSD, using BlueZ for Bluetooth control):
this does **not** require enhanced "root permissions" to run. A
windows version of this script is also planned for the future.
Instructions are [given below](#bluetooth-le-beacon-setup).
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The python\>=3.6 script for running a Bluetooth-LE Service Discovery
beacon is uxplay-beacon.py. Currently only a DBus version (for Linux and
\*BSD) is available, and it is only installed on systems which support
DBus.
DBus. Bluetooth \>= 4.0 hardware on the host computer is required: a
cheap USB bluetooth dongle can be used. Bluetooth support (BlueZ) must
be installed (on Debian-based systems:
`sudo apt install bluez bluez-tools`; recent Ubuntu releases provide
bluez as a snap package).
In addition to standard Python3 libraries, you may need to install the
gi, dbus, and psutil Python libraries used by uxplay-beacon.py. On
Debian-based systems:
sudo apt install python3-gi python3-dbus python3-psutil
If uxplay will be run with option "`uxplay -ble`" (so it writes data for
the Bluetooth beacon in the default BLE data file `~/.uxplay.ble`), just