Going Back to Square One
The whole reason I started this project was to make it easy for someone to create a cool little gadget. An example of what I consider a cool little gadget would be a Bluetooth presence indicator, or "tracker".

In experimenting with Bluetooth beacon tracking, I found a script called BlueRanger.
What is BlueRanger?
Blueranger takes a Bluetooth MAC address, pings it, and shows you the signal strength - along with a few other neat pieces of info.
My Goal
So my goal was to take the text-based BlueRanger app and adapt it to display a graphical output onto the OLED screen attached to Raspberry Pi.
But when I attempted this project, every way that I thought about making it required inputting the MAC address with a 2nd device.
So I asked myself, "Why should you even need a 2nd device when there's a joystick and 3 buttons on the OLED screen?"
Can't we just use the joystick and buttons on the OLED screen to input text?
YES! We absolutely can!
Inputting Text Using Joystick + Buttons on OLED Screen
So I set out to make it possible to input text using the OLED screen.
Now that I've done that (in wifi-disp.py and wifi-pw-skiptest.py), I can resume the BlueRanger project!
How OLED BlueRanger Will Work
When I designed the scripts to take input using the joystick and 3 buttons, I made a configuration just for MAC addresses.
That means I can..
- Make a script that calls my already-built MAC Address get-input script
- Pipe the user input to the already-built OLED BlueRanger script
- Let BlueRanger run as the OLED screen auto-updates!
Even though the OLED "BlueRanger" project is no longer a main focus for me, I realize it's essential in continuing with p4wnsolo.
Why?
BlueRanger parses program output and displays it graphically and continuously.
Links:
https://github.com/GIJack/BlueRanger
/ianscripts/oledblueranger/demowithip.py