Bluetooth as direct reticulum interface

[ShwangShwing]

Is it technically possible to have bluetooth as a direct reticulum interface (not for using it to connect to RNode or some other device)? Briar seems to be able to send and receive messages via bluetooth without pairing or any setup (setup that is not the initial key exchange).
Would it be technically possible to have transport nodes spread throughout the city where phones can use them to access the reticulum network?

Bluetooth is available on every phone so I think it will be good if the project can take advantage of this. It will also make playing with this network way easier (and more interesting than just using the tcp interfaces) and maybe more popular.

[LinuxinaBit]

It's very possible.
The only problem is that Bluetooth/BLE was implemented in a way that makes this very hard to do, especially on Android.
I don't have specifics, but I can tell you that others are actually starting work on it ;)

[ShwangShwing]

Thank you. Can you tell me who is working on it? Can I find it being discussed somewhere? Is there any code committed? I can't seem to easily find any of this being discussed, apart from this one #127 .

[LinuxinaBit]

It's in early stages (not public yet), I believe @regulad is working on it.
From what he's said in the Matrix room, it's going to be Android-only at first, but it will be possible to implement the wire format for other systems in the future.

[regulad]

Yes, this is correct. If you'd like to see a very rough draft in a different contact, check out this repo: https://github.com/regulad/BlueHeaven. Note that the code here is unnecessary high-level, it's written mostly with Kotlin coroutines. The final product will be mostly just access through pyjnius.

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