Hi Barry, On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Barry Byford <31baz66@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Luiz > > On 21 October 2015 at 09:31, Luiz Augusto von Dentz > <luiz.dentz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 1:26 AM, Barry Byford <31baz66@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> I’m looking to use a Raspberry Pi running the latest Raspbian Jessie operation >>> system with Bluez 5.23. >>> The way that I’m currently doing the scanning for the beacon data is >>> with this bash >>> script: >>> #!/bin/bash >>> sudo hcitool lescan --duplicates 1>/dev/null & >>> trap "sudo kill $!" EXIT >>> sudo hcidump --raw >>> >>> Should I be able to get the Eddystone beacon payload using Python with >>> the D-Bus API >>> in Bluez 5.23? >>> Is there a good tutorial/example that I could look at? >> >> bluetoothctl does actually print the advertising data: >> >> [bluetooth]# scan on >> Discovery started >> [CHG] Controller XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Discovering: yes >> [CHG] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX RSSI: -34 >> [CHG] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Name: Test beacon >> [CHG] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Alias: Test beacon >> [CHG] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX ServiceData Key: fed8 >> [CHG] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX ServiceData Value: 0x00 >> [CHG] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX ServiceData Value: 0x20 >> [CHG] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX ServiceData Value: 0x02 >> [CHG] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX ServiceData Value: 0x30 >> [CHG] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX ServiceData Value: 0x31 >> [CHG] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX ServiceData Value: 0x08 > > Thanks for pointing me in the direction of bluetoothctl. However I'm > not getting my beacon advertising data out with bluetoothctl. > It reports things like my phone that is waiting to be paired but no beacons. > > What is the best way to get debug information out?. I forgot to mention it was introduced in 5.31, so you probably need to update if you want to use these properties. > >> It is basically using the properties ServiceData and ManufacturerData: >> >> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/doc/device-api.txt >> >> With this all you need to do is to listen for PropertiesChanged and >> decode the values, > I will get the bluetoothctl working before looking at this but thanks for > the information this was what I was looking for. > >> it would probably be good idea to have a python >> sample of decoding eddystone beacons, or beacons in general. > I would certainly find it helpful. :-) > > Thanks, > Barry > -- > 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 -- Luiz Augusto von Dentz -- 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
