iTagBLE

A cheap bluetooth button called iTag.

1. Press the button for 3 seconds, you will hear a long beep.
2. Scan for the button mac address
3. run gatttool, connect, primary, char-desc

sudo hcitool lescan | grep iTag
sudo gatttool -b FF:FF:30:00:04:76 -I
connect
primary
char-desc

When you press the button you will see the following gatttool output:

Notification handle = 0x000e value: 01 

There are tools in python that will allow you to connect to gatttool and write code against the bluetooth button press received event.

notes

-iTag button Link to Amazon

• http://flowcloud.github.io/ci20-bluetooth-LE/2015/09/10/bluetooth-control-in-python/
• https://github.com/peplin/pygatt