mic92/hue-ble-ctl

Control your Phillips Hue light bulb over bluetooth

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gatttool insufficient encryption

Hello everyone,
I can't make the project work. I have done countless resets of the Phlips Hue lamp, but still: I always get the error "Could not read characteristic".
The BLE protocol says that there is an "insufficient encryption".
--> The underlying error could be gatttool: How can I get an encrypted connection to the Philips hue lamp with gatttool? I tried all three security levels (low, medium, high) but nothing works.
Thanks for your help!

Does it still work?

The software running on the Philips Hue I have has version 1.65_9_hB3217DF4.

If I run something like gatttool -l low -t random -b f6:4a:25:26:22:91 --characteristics it looks that I've the same characteristics as you do.

handle = 0x0002, char properties = 0x20, char value handle = 0x0003, uuid = 00002a05-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x0005, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x0006, uuid = 00002b2a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x0007, char properties = 0x0a, char value handle = 0x0008, uuid = 00002b29-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x000a, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x000b, uuid = 00002a00-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x000c, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x000d, uuid = 00002a01-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x000f, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x0010, uuid = 00002a29-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x0011, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x0012, uuid = 00002a24-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x0013, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x0014, uuid = 00002a28-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
handle = 0x0016, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x0017, uuid = 97fe6561-0001-4f62-86e9-b71ee2da3d22
handle = 0x0018, char properties = 0x0e, char value handle = 0x0019, uuid = 97fe6561-0003-4f62-86e9-b71ee2da3d22
handle = 0x001a, char properties = 0x0c, char value handle = 0x001b, uuid = 97fe6561-0004-4f62-86e9-b71ee2da3d22
handle = 0x001c, char properties = 0x2c, char value handle = 0x001d, uuid = 97fe6561-0008-4f62-86e9-b71ee2da3d22
handle = 0x001f, char properties = 0x2e, char value handle = 0x0020, uuid = 97fe6561-1001-4f62-86e9-b71ee2da3d22
handle = 0x0022, char properties = 0x0e, char value handle = 0x0023, uuid = 97fe6561-2001-4f62-86e9-b71ee2da3d22
handle = 0x0024, char properties = 0x0c, char value handle = 0x0025, uuid = 97fe6561-2002-4f62-86e9-b71ee2da3d22
handle = 0x0026, char properties = 0x0c, char value handle = 0x0027, uuid = 97fe6561-2004-4f62-86e9-b71ee2da3d22
handle = 0x0028, char properties = 0x0c, char value handle = 0x0029, uuid = 97fe6561-a001-4f62-86e9-b71ee2da3d22
handle = 0x002b, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x002c, uuid = 932c32bd-0001-47a2-835a-a8d455b859dd
handle = 0x002d, char properties = 0x1e, char value handle = 0x002e, uuid = 932c32bd-0002-47a2-835a-a8d455b859dd
handle = 0x0030, char properties = 0x1e, char value handle = 0x0031, uuid = 932c32bd-0003-47a2-835a-a8d455b859dd
handle = 0x0039, char properties = 0x0c, char value handle = 0x003a, uuid = 932c32bd-0006-47a2-835a-a8d455b859dd
handle = 0x003b, char properties = 0x1e, char value handle = 0x003c, uuid = 932c32bd-0007-47a2-835a-a8d455b859dd
handle = 0x003e, char properties = 0x0e, char value handle = 0x003f, uuid = 932c32bd-1005-47a2-835a-a8d455b859dd
handle = 0x0041, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x0042, uuid = b8843add-0001-4aa1-8794-c3f462030bda
handle = 0x0043, char properties = 0x2c, char value handle = 0x0044, uuid = b8843add-0002-4aa1-8794-c3f462030bda
handle = 0x0046, char properties = 0x0c, char value handle = 0x0047, uuid = b8843add-0003-4aa1-8794-c3f462030bda
handle = 0x0048, char properties = 0x02, char value handle = 0x0049, uuid = b8843add-0004-4aa1-8794-c3f462030bda
handle = 0x004b, char properties = 0x1c, char value handle = 0x004c, uuid = 9da2ddf1-0001-44d0-909c-3f3d3cb34a7b

If I run your script in both situations I get only None on the introspection. It does connect, although that's also a bit flaky.

The on/off characteristic seems indeed similar.

handle = 0x002d, char properties = 0x1e, char value handle = 0x002e, uuid = 932c32bd-0002-47a2-835a-a8d455b859dd

Writing to the char value handle 0x002e

gatttool -l low -t random -b f6:4a:25:26:22:91 -I
[f6:4a:25:26:22:91][LE]> connect
Attempting to connect to f6:4a:25:26:22:91
Connection successful
[f6:4a:25:26:22:91][LE]> char-write-cmd 0x002e 01

No result... Neither with char-write-req.

Ah, the result of your script. It didn't matter for me if it is the above MAC address or the address after clicking Reset in the Philips Hue app (see below):

./hue-ble-ctl.py introspect 'E3:14:BB:58:AC:E7' 

connect to E3:14:BB:58:AC:E7...
found brightness characteristics
found light characteristics
service: 9da2ddf1-0000-44d0-909c-3f3d3cb34a7b
  characteristic: 9da2ddf1-0001-44d0-909c-3f3d3cb34a7b: None
service: b8843add-0000-4aa1-8794-c3f462030bda
  characteristic: b8843add-0004-4aa1-8794-c3f462030bda: 
  characteristic: b8843add-0003-4aa1-8794-c3f462030bda: None
  characteristic: b8843add-0002-4aa1-8794-c3f462030bda: None
  characteristic: b8843add-0001-4aa1-8794-c3f462030bda: None
service: 932c32bd-0000-47a2-835a-a8d455b859dd
  characteristic: 932c32bd-1005-47a2-835a-a8d455b859dd: None
  characteristic: 932c32bd-0007-47a2-835a-a8d455b859dd: None
  characteristic: 932c32bd-0006-47a2-835a-a8d455b859dd: None
  characteristic: 932c32bd-0003-47a2-835a-a8d455b859dd: None
  characteristic: 932c32bd-0002-47a2-835a-a8d455b859dd: None
  characteristic: 932c32bd-0001-47a2-835a-a8d455b859dd: None
service: 0000fe0f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
  characteristic: 97fe6561-a001-4f62-86e9-b71ee2da3d22: None
  characteristic: 97fe6561-2004-4f62-86e9-b71ee2da3d22: None
  characteristic: 97fe6561-2002-4f62-86e9-b71ee2da3d22: None
  characteristic: 97fe6561-2001-4f62-86e9-b71ee2da3d22: None
  characteristic: 97fe6561-1001-4f62-86e9-b71ee2da3d22: None
  characteristic: 97fe6561-0008-4f62-86e9-b71ee2da3d22: None
  characteristic: 97fe6561-0004-4f62-86e9-b71ee2da3d22: None
  characteristic: 97fe6561-0003-4f62-86e9-b71ee2da3d22: None
  characteristic: 97fe6561-0001-4f62-86e9-b71ee2da3d22: None
service: 0000180a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
  characteristic: 00002a28-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb: None
  characteristic: 00002a24-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb: None
  characteristic: 00002a29-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb: None
service: 00001801-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
  characteristic: 00002b29-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb: None
  characteristic: 00002b2a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb: None
  characteristic: 00002a05-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb: None
ERROR:dbus.connection:Exception in handler for D-Bus signal:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/dbus/connection.py", line 230, in maybe_handle_message
    self._handler(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/anne/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gatt/gatt_linux.py", line 398, in properties_changed
    self.services_resolved()
  File "./hue-ble-ctl.py", line 73, in services_resolved
    sys.exit(0)
SystemExit: 0
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "./hue-ble-ctl.py", line 95, in <module>
    main()
  File "./hue-ble-ctl.py", line 91, in main
    manager.run()
  File "/home/anne/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/gatt/gatt_linux.py", line 91, in run
    self._main_loop.run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/GLib.py", line 588, in run
    raise KeyboardInterrupt
KeyboardInterrupt

Or is there a more thorough factory reset possible?

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