Hi Yussif, On Sat, Feb 02, 2019, Youssif Saeed wrote: > Is there a tool/utility/option for enabling directed advertising? > Currently, it seems that the only options available through > bluetoothctl is undirected advertising. I can see that there is a > "type" field in the advertising section, but from browsing through the > source, it looks like the only supported options are "peripheral" and > "broadcast" (This can be seen in bluez/client/main.c). Is there an > option or another utility that enables this feature? If I remember right, you can force the kernel to do directed advertising by enabling the "advertising" mgmt setting (e.g. "btmgmt advertising on"), and then issuing a connect on an L2CAP socket to your wanted destination address. This was originally designed for testing purposes, so I'm not sure how practical it's for anything else. Johan
