pythops
Is it possible to advertise using the GUI?
Is it possible to have the device controller go into advertise mode (not for pairing) to advertise information such as manufacturing data or custom data such as a sensor temperature, without having to setup a connection with a GATT database? Or is the focus of this program on paired connections?
Okay if helpful, this week I can add some use cases to the issue for requirements development?
Well I'm still thinking about use cases. A limitation to my idea of having bluetui control advertisers is that normally users would either want to advertise a very specific static piece of information such as a service uuid or would want the advertising data to be dependent on something like changing sensor data. Either way that would probably be better solved by a command line program which I discuss at https://github.com/bluez/bluer/issues/140.
A potentially useful need would be to organize advertising reports from different devices so they can be easily searchable or have alerts when certain values change such as RSSI.
Right now I cannot think of a specific need, but am still investigating areas such as Periodic Advertising with Responses.