Access Raspberry Pi terminal via Bluetooth on Android Device

It’s really common and easy to use SSH to access Raspberry Pi through Internet like WiFi or Ethernet. However, if you don’t have internet connection, bluetooth is your best friend to access to your raspberry pi.

As a big fan of iOS devices, I am looking for a great way to access Raspberry Pi via bluetooth on Apple mobile devices.

Tools:

• Raspberry Pi 4
• An Android Device which has bluetooth module
• BlueTerm app (Available on Play Store)

Softwares on Pi:

• bluetooth, bluez and blueman

sudo apt-get install bluetooth bluez blueman

These libraries have nice GUI interfaces with bluetooth drivers that you can easily manage or connect bluetooth devices.

• python-bluetooth

sudo apt-get install python-bluetooth

This package enables the communication between python and bluetooth module on Raspberry Pi.

Let’ s Get Started

First, we need to set the connection between Raspberry Pi and Android Device. We can achieve this by the following steps:

1. Pair Raspberry Pi with Android device

We can achieve this by a few click on bluetooth device manager.