Parrot Zik TCP Server

Overview

Parrot Zik is one of the most advanced headphones in the market. https://www.parrot.com/en/audio/parrot-zik-3

PyParrot Zik is unofficial tool that show Parrot Zik indicator on Windows and Linux. Thanks to @serathius for Parrot Zik 2.0 support. Thanks to @moimadmax for Parrot Zik 3.0 support. Thanks to @m0sia for base code and the reverse engineering of Parrot Zik communication protocol.

This repo contains some base class without unmaintained pyGTK crap and python3 compatible code with a simple TCP client/server for use this.

/!\ Parrot Zik 1 not tested for the moment.

Windows Usage

Windows support is not tested for the moment. All old code from forked project is always here.

Linux Usage

1. Connect Parrot Zik with standard bluetooth connection
2. Install the server python setup install
3. Run the server parrot_zik_tray

Battery status are save all 90 seconds in tmp file. You can use the simple client to use the server or build your own TCP client.

Linux Requirement

Python-bluez is needed. On ubuntu based distro run

sudo apt-get install python-bluez python-appindicator python-beautifulsoup

Development

Installation: python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Running: python3 -m parrot_zik.test_server

Resources

Some resources for informations purpose:

• https://www.dpin.de/nf/computer-it-nerdine-geek/geraete-devices-toys/parrot-zik2/bluetooth-protocol/
• https://www.dpin.de/nf/parrot-zik-2-0/
• https://www.dpin.de/nf/computer-it-nerdine-geek/geraete-devices-toys/parrot-zik2/nfc/
• https://www.dpin.de/nf/computer-it-nerdine-geek/geraete-devices-toys/parrot-zik2/firmware/

Mac OS Usage

Based on investigation made for pyParrotZik the excellent Parrot-Status tool was developed specially for Mac OS (https://github.com/vincent-le-normand/Parrot-Status)