Hi Richard, On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:22:01AM +0100, Richard Neill wrote: > Dear All, > > I'm trying to get "hello world" working from the shell between 2 > Bluetooth 4 dongles, in LE advertising mode. I wonder whether I > could ask for some pointers? > > As I understand it, Bluetooth low-energy supports up to 31 bytes of > arbitrary text in the advertising packet. So it should be possible > to set one dongle up in LE-advertising mode, and a second in LE-scan > mode, and to transfer the "hello world" message from one to the > other. > > I'm rather stuck at the moment. I've discovered that there is an "LE > Set Advertising Data" command, 0xcf (from "hciconfig hci0 > commands_list"), and that "hcitool -i hci0 cmd 0xcf XXX YYY ZZZ" is $ hcitool cmd --help Usage: cmd <ogf> <ocf> [parameters] Check ogf and ocf from the Bluetooth Specification. Best regards Andrei Emeltchenko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
