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GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge: bt: Modern BLE CLI Tool

GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge Submission

This is a submission for the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge

What I Built

There is no clean, simple, cross‑platform, developer‑friendly BLE CLI exists today. Linux has bluetoothctl, macOS has no official CLI, and Windows exposes only low‑level PowerShell APIs.

Developers working with BLE devices — especially ESP32‑based prototypes — lack a simple, unified, ergonomic CLI. My goal is to create a minimal, ergonomic, script‑friendly CLI for scanning, connecting, and interacting with BLE devices.

📝 Repo: https://github.com/QAInsights/bt

Demo

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My Experience with GitHub Copilot CLI

bt was built using the copilot which acted as a copilot for this project. It helped me in brainstorming, planning, rapid prototyping using natural language processing even with my typos :)

🤖 copilot helped in no context switching, focused development, acting as a pair programmer, testing, and more.

As a beginner in Bluetooth modules, it helped in navigating the docs, debugging, beautifying the output, and testing it. Without leaving the ide , it helped in polishing the whole project.

Here is how it started:

How it started

and here is how it ended:

How it ended

Repo: https://github.com/QAInsights/bt

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