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Bluetooth Rainbows

Decided to add Bluetooth control to the LED Rainbow. Every once in a while we need to change the go to sleep and wake up times and M wants to be able to control the colours from her iPad.

Got my old RedBearLab BLE units out. Unfortunately RedBearLab seems to have gone out of business in the last few years. But the units are still working well and thankfully their GitHub repos are still up.

Spent a few hours converting and old BLE library into a working Swift implementation. Next step will be writing a simple protocol to control time and colour settings on the rainbow.