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TLDR: I cracked the Bluetooth protocol on a Mi Band 5 - auth handshake and all, to stream my live heart rate into my own code, built a real-time dashboard for it, and got it to push notifications back

Ah, Bluetooth. The technology we all love to hate. It's like that one friend who's always just about to connect, but then... doesn't. For years, Android developers have been locked in a dramatic, often tragic, romance with Bluetooth. We've wrestled w...

Introduction The BLE function of the KT1025A Bluetooth chip supports connection passcodes. By default, the passcode is fixed at 6 digits, and its length cannot be changed. In the default program, the passcode is set to 123456. Please note that each d...
