Why can I only pip install version 0.11.4 of pc-ble-driver-py on Raspberry PI?

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Hello, 
 For some reason whenever I try to pip install pc-ble-driver it will only ever install version 0.11.4. This causes a problem since I need the nrfutil library and the latest version of that needs pc-ble-driver-py version greater than 0.14.2. I am working on Raspbian version 10 (Buster) and have pip 20.2.3 and python 3.7.3 installed.

JONATHAN LL · Accepted Answer

Hi Kody, It looks like the latest version for arm processors(RPi 4) is 0.11.4 at the moment. When using pip the files are sourced from this website https://www.piwheels.org/project/pc-ble-driver-py/ and here you can see the latest supported version. Here is a stack overflow question covering a similar situation with explanation. Regards, Jonathan

KRichardson846 · Answer

Thank you for the explanation! Hopefully this will help someone who had a similar issue. My solution was simply to build the project from source, which seemed to work fine. The instructions on this page is what I followed.

Why can I only pip install version 0.11.4 of pc-ble-driver-py on Raspberry PI?

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