# rivermoonlight/gobbledegook

I'm a firm believer that a maintainer should be, at least in some part, a consumer of the thing they're maintaining. I built GGK for a personal project. That project's communication needs have grown considerably, beyond the point where Bluetooth LE is a viable option and I was forced to make the switch to an IP-based solution. As much as I've enjoyed building and using GGK, I no longer have a use-case for Bluetooh LE or a test-case for GGK.

Repository: https://github.com/rivermoonlight/gobbledegook
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gobbledegook
Language: C++
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2020-10-23T04:44:38+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2140, "days_push": 2140, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1260, forks 439 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:09.911174+00:00)

## What it is
Gobbledegook (GGK) is a standalone C/C++ Bluetooth Low Energy GATT server library for Linux, built on BlueZ over D-Bus with Bluetooth Management API support. It offers a DSL-like API for declaring GATT services, characteristics, and descriptors, with automated D-Bus object registration.

## Use cases
- build a BLE GATT peripheral server on Linux
- expose custom GATT services from a Raspberry Pi
- create a Bluetooth LE peripheral without writing BlueZ D-Bus boilerplate
- implement periodic BLE characteristic updates with timer events
- embed a BLE server into a C or C++ application

## When to choose
- you need a lightweight, embeddable BLE GATT server in C/C++ on Linux
- you're targeting Raspberry Pi or similar embedded Linux devices
- you want a simple DSL for declaring GATT services instead of raw D-Bus calls

## When to avoid
- you need an actively maintained project - the author is seeking a new maintainer and no longer uses BLE
- you need an IP-based or Bluetooth Classic solution
- you need support beyond Linux/BlueZ
- you want a high-level framework with guaranteed long-term support

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: sdk, networking, middleware
- domain: embedded-systems, iot, developer-tools
- platform: cpp, c, embedded, iot
- tags: bluetooth-le, gatt-server, bluez, dbus, raspberry-pi, linux

## Member repositories
- rivermoonlight/gobbledegook (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:09.911174+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T05:04:24.947932+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/rivermoonlight/gobbledegook (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:09.911174+00:00, sha 3739a20db2e8)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.