Terminology

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Terminology

Core

BlueZ - Bluetooth stack for Linux. To use BlueZ, we interface with D-Bus (also styled as, DBus)
D-Bus - Inter-process communication messaging bus system. What?! It allows different processes in Linux to talk to each other.
Linux.Bluetooth - This super awesome library to enable C# applications to use the Bluetooth stack on Linux ❤️
Tmds.DBus - D-Bus for .NET

Bluetooth Terminology

Server - Also known as the slave device.
- Servers can advertise themselves for connection
- Clients connect to the server
- Servers cannot initiate connections themselves
- Servers can allow for multiple connections to it
- i.e. Wireless speakers
Client - Device which connects to the server
- i.e. Cellphone