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CaptainFuzzyFace
Asked: 2020-05-11 02:47:12 +0800 CST

Is there a way to get Blue-Proximity working or an alternative?

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I'm looking for a way to use my mobile to automatically unlock my laptop. Blue Proximity seemed like a good answer, but it's clearly been abandoned as a project and I'm having problems with some of the dependencies. Has anyone got this working on 20.04 or got an alternative? Thanks.

package-management bluetooth python-2.7

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  1. I forked the project and upgraded it. Now it runs on Python 3 so it will work on Ubuntu 20.04. Find it here:

    https://github.com/tiktaalik-dev/blueproximity

    I haven't created .deb packages though because I don't know how (yet), but it can run directly from a folder in your user directory. Just create a link to the .sh file in that folder.

    Hope you find it as useful as the old one :-)

    Cheers.

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