Bluetooth inputs form wireless devices - python

I have a pair of Bluetooth earbuds that have touch capabilities to pause and play music and it works fine on my win 10 pc. So, I am trying to make a small python script that triggers an event on receiving signals from the earbuds as I had heard that python 3.9 now supports Bluetooth for windows 10. So is there any way to receive those signals in python? I have tried wire shark but it does not detect any Bluetooth devices at all .
What I have tried:
pybluez (doesn't work for win 10)
sockets (it requires a client program installed on the other device which is not possible)

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I would like to build a camera trigger for my phone by simulating a BLE keyboard that sends the Volume Up key to the phone connected by Bluetooth. I want this because I want to trigger the native Camera app, and not an embedded camera view.
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You need to create a Bluetooth HID (or HID over GATT) peripheral that your phone can connect to and will receive the key commands from.
There is a project here that did it with a Raspberry Pi:
https://gist.github.com/ukBaz/a47e71e7b87fbc851b27cde7d1c0fcf0#gistcomment-2997623
Unfornately the underlaying Bluetooth library will not move across to your Mac Book.
The HID protocol is documented here: https://github.com/jpbrucker/BLE_HID/blob/master/doc/HID.md
In summary, I think what your saying is that you want to make an cli application which is on your laptop/desktop connect to your phone via Bluetooth and simulate a volume key from your laptop/desktop keyboard.
Android:
To do this you will need:
Python 3.5 or above
PyBluez
Keyboard(Python module/API)
Android Studio
Java Development Kit 8 (preferably 11 or 14)
Android BLE
So in order to do this I would create a cli application with python3 and I would record the key presses on the laptop/desktop machine by using the keyboard module this then gets transmitted(bluetooth) via the PyBluez module to your phone. Your phone then accepts the bluetooth data via Android BLE and then simulates the volume button press.
DISCLAIMER:
This only works when the phone is already paired to your pc and only work on android phones 4.4.4 and above.
Some Links That Could Help You:
Bluetooth lib for python 3 ,
detect key press in python? ,
Create a socket for 4.0 bluetooth transmission
IOS:
To do this you will need:
Python 3.5 or above
PyBluez
Keyboard(Python module/API)
XCode
Swift
Core Bluetooth Module
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DISCLAIMER:
The phone and laptop/desktop must be paired before it runs this might sound obvious but some people might ignore this.
Some Links That Could Help You:
iOS use the volume buttons as input ,
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corebluetooth/transferring_data_between_bluetooth_low_energy_devices

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My next solution was to use the private BluetoothManager framework to communicate with the Pi, but this doesn't work on iOS 7.
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