News and announcements

Connection Handover test tool

Written for nfcpy by Stephen Tiedemann on 2012-09-25

The new handover-test-server.py in the examples section provides an easy way to run a handover server with a highly flexible list of selectable carriers - from the autodiscovered local Bluetooth adapter (only Linux) to whatever selection of crafted valid or invalid carriers. And it's actually also possible to just use to get smartphone images to the laptop/desktop by "simply touch" (tested on Ubuntu with gnome-file-share-properties Bluetooth receive enabled).

New tool for parsing and generating NDEF

Written for nfcpy by Stephen Tiedemann on 2012-09-04

The new examples/ndeftool.py provides a command line interface for dealing with NDEF data. Various NDEF messages can be generated and the list will certainly grow further. Want to pack an image into NDEF format? Just say "ndeftool pack <filename>".

Support for Type 1 and Type 4 Tags added

Written for nfcpy by Stephen Tiedemann on 2012-03-14

Finally found some time to implement the NFC Forum Type 1 and Type 4 Tag Operation specifications (initial code for type 1 tag reading contributed by Alexander, many thanks ). A limitation on Type 1 Tag read/write is that only the static memory model is supported but in reality there seem to be no Type 1 Tags that have more than 120 bytes memory, so this seems to be only a theoretical limitation for now.

Support for Type 2 Tags

Written for nfcpy by Stephen Tiedemann on 2011-07-18

It's been on the wish list for a while but now nfcpy does support reading and writing of NFC Forum Type 2 Tags (Mifare Ultralight). Although some may believe this does not mean Mifare Classic tags, those are a different kind of animal (they need keys and are in general not defined by NFC Forum tag operation specs).

Updated on 2011-07-18.