Characteristic – BLE service characteristic

Stores information about a BLE service characteristic and allows reading and writing of the characteristic’s value.

class _bleio.Characteristic

There is no regular constructor for a Characteristic. A new local Characteristic can be created and attached to a Service by calling add_to_service(). Remote Characteristic objects are created by Connection.discover_remote_services() as part of remote Services.

add_to_service(service, uuid, *, properties=0, read_perm=Attribute.OPEN, write_perm=Attribute.OPEN, max_length=20, fixed_length=False, initial_value=None)

Create a new Characteristic object, and add it to this Service.

Parameters:
  • service (Service) – The service that will provide this characteristic
  • uuid (UUID) – The uuid of the characteristic
  • properties (int) – The properties of the characteristic, specified as a bitmask of these values bitwise-or’d together: BROADCAST, INDICATE, NOTIFY, READ, WRITE, WRITE_NO_RESPONSE.
  • read_perm (int) – Specifies whether the characteristic can be read by a client, and if so, which security mode is required. Must be one of the integer values Attribute.NO_ACCESS, Attribute.OPEN, Attribute.ENCRYPT_NO_MITM, Attribute.ENCRYPT_WITH_MITM, Attribute.LESC_ENCRYPT_WITH_MITM, Attribute.SIGNED_NO_MITM, or Attribute.SIGNED_WITH_MITM.
  • write_perm (int) – Specifies whether the characteristic can be written by a client, and if so, which security mode is required. Values allowed are the same as read_perm.
  • max_length (int) – Maximum length in bytes of the characteristic value. The maximum allowed is is 512, or possibly 510 if fixed_length is False. The default, 20, is the maximum number of data bytes that fit in a single BLE 4.x ATT packet.
  • fixed_length (bool) – True if the characteristic value is of fixed length.
  • initial_value (buf) – The initial value for this characteristic. If not given, will be filled with zeros.
Returns:

the new Characteristic.
properties

An int bitmask representing which properties are set, specified as bitwise or’ing of of these possible values. BROADCAST, INDICATE, NOTIFY, READ, WRITE, WRITE_NO_RESPONSE.

uuid

The UUID of this characteristic. (read-only)

Will be None if the 128-bit UUID for this characteristic is not known.

value

The value of this characteristic.

descriptors

A tuple of Descriptor that describe this characteristic. (read-only)

service(read-only)

The Service this Characteristic is a part of.

set_cccd(*, notify=False, indicate=False)

Set the remote characteristic’s CCCD to enable or disable notification and indication.

Parameters:
  • notify (bool) – True if Characteristic should receive notifications of remote writes
  • indicate (float) – True if Characteristic should receive indications of remote writes
BROADCAST

property: allowed in advertising packets

INDICATE

property: server will indicate to the client when the value is set and wait for a response

NOTIFY

property: server will notify the client when the value is set

READ

property: clients may read this characteristic

WRITE

property: clients may write this characteristic; a response will be sent back

WRITE_NO_RESPONSE

property: clients may write this characteristic; no response will be sent back