title: Macbook Pro 2015 connecting to a TI Sensortag cc2541
body: <p>Background - What I would like to do is to be able to push buttons on a BT sensor and trigger some actions like tweet or play a particular sound etc. I have a TI CC2541 Sensortag that I would like to control with a python program. </p>
  
  <p>Issue - I am unable to get Mac OS X bluetooth to recognize the BLE on TI Sensortag. </p>
  
  <p>Attempts - I installed lightblue which recognizes the sensor. But I am not sure how that can help control the sensor programmatically.
  I heard about Bluez in my research, but I guess it is related to linux only systems. I have used Evothings and that can connect to the sensortag through my phone on the same network. I can make small changes to the javascript on evothings studio to capture events from the Sensortag and affect changes on the evothings app.</p>
  
  <p>I am trying to get my Mac to recognize the BLE Sensortag after which I can control the device programmatically. Do I need to buy one of these pluggable BLE dongles to get this to work? OR am I attempting something wrong.</p>
  
  <p>Please advise.</p>