Bluetility

Bluetility is a general-purpose Bluetooth Low-Energy utility for Mac OS X. It scans for advertising peripherals, provides a interface to browse a connected peripheral’s services and characteristics, and allows characteristic values to be read, written, and subscribed.

Installation

Manual

1. Download the latest release: https://github.com/jnross/Bluetility/releases/latest/download/Bluetility.app.zip
2. Extract the downloaded archive.
3. Move Bluetility.app into your /Applications folder. Or don’t!
4. Open Bluetility.app.

Using Homebrew

brew install --cask bluetility

Features

• Scan for nearby advertising peripherals
• Sort peripherals by received signal strength
• View advertising data via tooltip on Devices list
• Browse services and characteristics of connected peripheral
• Subscribe to characteristic notifications
• Read/Write characteristic values
• View log of characteristic read/writes, logs may be saved as CSV

Motivation

Bluetility is inspired by LightBlue, a free bluetooth utility published by Punch Through Design. Bluetility was created to resolve issues in this tool, and add missing features:

• Support copy/paste via Cmd+C and Cmd+V
• Sort peripherals by received signal strength
• View advertising data
• Automatically reconnect to disconnected peripherals when needed

Bluetility is published as open-source so that anyone can tweak or improve its functionality to meet their own needs.