Re: GATT issue, possible bluez bug?

[Adam Pigg <adam@piggz.co.uk>]

Hi Luiz

On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 at 00:44, Luiz Augusto von Dentz
<luiz.dentz@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Adam,
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 4:03 PM Adam Pigg <adam@piggz.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > A bit of background, I write a linux desktop/mobile app called
> > Amazfish which interfaces with several watches over BLE using their
> > GATT services.  To do this, I use the bluez dbus api (technically a
> > thin wrapper around it I wrote called qble
> > https://github.com/piggz/qble)
> >
> > All has been good so far, I support several generations of
> > Huami/Amazfit watches, as well as the open source Pinetime and
> > Bangle.js.  For the Amazfit watches, i have implementations for older
> > devies such as the Bip, and newer ones such as the GTS.
> >
> > Much of the reverse engineering comes from the Android Gadget Bridge
> > project, which supports many more devices.
> >
> > My community of users donated to buy me a newer device called a GTR2,
> > which, according to the GB devs uses the same protocol as the slightly
> > older GTS, and the packet captures I have from Android would support
> > this.
> >
> > But this is where my trouble starts with Bluez, my existing
> > implementation doesnt work at all.  Normally, after a connection, I
> > would wait for the ServicesResolved signal, which happens pretty fast
> > on all other devices, but on the GTR2, it takes about 30 seconds, by
> > which time, the watch has disconnected. (i get a disconnected signal
> > immediately after the ServicesResolved signal)
> >
> > To rule out my code, I have tried several things:
> > Gatttool
> > With gattool, i can connect, get the services, enable a notification,
> > write a value and get the expected results seemingly fine
> >
> > Python-gatt (using the bluez dbus api)
> > Im unable to iterate the services, like my app, it takes 30 seconds to
> > get the signal and then swiftly disconnects
> >
> > Gattlib (https://github.com/labapart/gattlib)
> > Gattlib is interesting as it appears to have "borrowed" much of its
> > code directly from bluez.  When built against the system bluez, if the
> > version is > 5.42, it will use the dbus api.  When I do this, again im
> > unable to list services on the watch.  However, if I edit the build to
> > force it to use its internal gatt implementation, which appears to be
> > the same one used by gatttool, then, it IS able to interrogate the
> > watch.
> >
> > I have attached 3 files
> > 1. test python program which should print services, and associated btmon
> > 2. btmon output while using gatttool
> > 3. btmon output running gattlib discover example
> >
> > Note, other than discovery, I havnt been able to get gattlib to
> > read/write/notify!
> >
> > It seems as though I may be triggering a bug in the bluez dbus api?
> > Can anyone suggest anything?
>
> What version are you using? I would first try with the latest to see
> if that something already fixed.
>
>
Im using 5.63 already, which is the latest tag (on opensuse tumbleweed)

I'll also try bluetoothctl and attach logs using that, though I
suspect it will behave the same as the python library and my own
library.

> --
> Luiz Augusto von Dentz