iPhone Bluetooth Presence detection help please

[s200bym]

Hi all,


I am trying to get my ESP32 to detect my iPhone via Bluetooth to set a GPIO pin high.

I can get this to work on my Raspberry Pi Zero W with Python fine with the below code:

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#!/usr/bin/python

import bluetooth
import time
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO

GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
RELAY = 23
GPIO.setup(RELAY, GPIO.OUT)

while True:
    print "Checking " + time.strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S", time.gmtime())
    result = bluetooth.lookup_name('MY iPHONE MAC', timeout=5)
    if (result != None):
        print "User present"
        GPIO.output(RELAY,1)
    else:
        print "User out of range"
        GPIO.output(RELAY,0)

When I load the below code to the ESP32 board it doesn't work. Does Python do more than Arduino C++ in regards to Bluetooth detection? I know the phone gives out random mac addresses but why does the Pi work when I punch in the phones static mac address but the ESP32 doesn't?

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#include <BLEDevice.h>
#include <BLEUtils.h>
#include <BLEScan.h>
#include <BLEAdvertisedDevice.h>
String knownBLEAddresses[] = {"MY iPHONE MAC"};
int RSSI_THRESHOLD = -89;
bool device_found;
int scanTime = 5; //In seconds
BLEScan* pBLEScan;
class MyAdvertisedDeviceCallbacks: public BLEAdvertisedDeviceCallbacks {
    void onResult(BLEAdvertisedDevice advertisedDevice) {
      for (int i = 0; i < (sizeof(knownBLEAddresses) / sizeof(knownBLEAddresses[0])); i++)
      {
        //Uncomment to Enable Debug Information
        //Serial.println("*************Start**************");
        //Serial.println(sizeof(knownBLEAddresses));
        //Serial.println(sizeof(knownBLEAddresses[0]));
        //Serial.println(sizeof(knownBLEAddresses)/sizeof(knownBLEAddresses[0]));
        //Serial.println(advertisedDevice.getAddress().toString().c_str());
        //Serial.println(knownBLEAddresses[i].c_str());
        //Serial.println("*************End**************");
        if (strcmp(advertisedDevice.getAddress().toString().c_str(), knownBLEAddresses[i].c_str()) == 0)
                        {
          device_found = true;
                          break;
                        }
        else
          device_found = false;
      }
      Serial.printf("Advertised Device: %s \n", advertisedDevice.toString().c_str());
    }
};
void setup() {
  Serial.begin(115200); //Enable UART on ESP32
  Serial.println("Scanning..."); // Print Scanning
  pinMode(LED_BUILTIN, OUTPUT); //make BUILTIN_LED pin as output
  BLEDevice::init("");
  pBLEScan = BLEDevice::getScan(); //create new scan
  pBLEScan->setAdvertisedDeviceCallbacks(new MyAdvertisedDeviceCallbacks()); //Init Callback Function
  pBLEScan->setActiveScan(true); //active scan uses more power, but get results faster
  pBLEScan->setInterval(100); // set Scan interval
  pBLEScan->setWindow(99);  // less or equal setInterval value
}
void loop() {
  // put your main code here, to run repeatedly:
  BLEScanResults foundDevices = pBLEScan->start(scanTime, false);
  for (int i = 0; i < foundDevices.getCount(); i++)
  {
    BLEAdvertisedDevice device = foundDevices.getDevice(i);
    int rssi = device.getRSSI();
    Serial.print("RSSI: ");
    Serial.println(rssi);
    if (rssi > RSSI_THRESHOLD && device_found == true)
      digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, HIGH);
    else
      digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, LOW);
  }
  pBLEScan->clearResults();   // delete results fromBLEScan buffer to release memory
}

I want to use the ESP32 as the Linux loading times of the Pi is a problem.

Many Thanks,
Mike.

[stofakiller]

Hi,

I want the same thing, have you solved it on a esp32?