Hi David,
I am getting to know bluez, reading the BT spec, playing with pybluez - and I have a multi-adapter question I hope someone may know the answer to. I want to capture the RSSI from a mobile phone from several Bluetooth radio dongles on a linux system, so I can try to estimate where the mobile phone is. I find that when I have all radios doing inquiry scans with RSSI at the same time, it generates a lot of radio traffic, and WiFi in the area slows down. So I'm wondering, can I have one radio initiate the inquiry scan with RSSI, and have the other 5 radios just listen for the replies from the mobile phone without "talking"? Could this be accomplished just by setting the hardware address of the "listeners" to match the address of the "talker", then they would receive the replies - or is there some hand-shaking / delivery guarantee algorithm that is required that would not be possible if the listeners remain quiet?
the simple answer is no. It is not how Bluetooth works. For more details you should get a book on Bluetooth that explains how the radio/ baseband actually works.
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