Hi Emil,
>>> I attempting to get the advertising data from a commercially available
>>> sensor device using the DBus API.
>>> The sensor device gives different manufacturer data depending if the
>>> event type is ADV_IND or SCAN_RSP, as you can see below in the btmon
>>> output.
>>>
>>> With DBus I am subscribing to the InterfacesAdded signal which
>>> triggers when the device has been found. However, it only seems to
>>> give me the information for the SCAN_RSP.
>>> If I subscribe to the PropertiesChanged signal on the device, that is
>>> also only giving the data from the SCAN_RSP event.
>>>
>>> How do I access both types of data with the DBus API?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Barry
>>>
>>> $ bluetoothctl -v
>>> bluetoothctl: 5.50
>>>
>>>
>>> btmon output for sensor device:
>>>
>>>> HCI Event: LE Meta Event (0x3e) plen 43 #1969 [hci0] 740.157687
>>> LE Advertising Report (0x02)
>>> Num reports: 1
>>> Event type: Connectable undirected - ADV_IND (0x00)
>>> Address type: Random (0x01)
>>> Address: DC:76:F7:E1:62:E0 (Static)
>>> Data length: 31
>>> Flags: 0x06
>>> LE General Discoverable Mode
>>> BR/EDR Not Supported
>>> Company: Blue Maestro Limited (307)
>>> Data: 1b640e10010400e701a527f50100
>>> Name (complete): DC76F7E1
>>> RSSI: -44 dBm (0xd4)
>>>> HCI Event: LE Meta Event (0x3e) plen 41 #1970 [hci0] 740.158684
>>> LE Advertising Report (0x02)
>>> Num reports: 1
>>> Event type: Scan response - SCAN_RSP (0x04)
>>> Address type: Random (0x01)
>>> Address: DC:76:F7:E1:62:E0 (Static)
>>> Data length: 29
>>> Company: Blue Maestro Limited (307)
>>> Data: 27fd27f227ea0000010201b600e4017100f4018c0000000000
>>> RSSI: -44 dBm (0xd4)
>>> @ MGMT Event: Device Found (0x0012) plen 74
>>> {0x0002} [hci0] 740.158704
>>> LE Address: DC:76:F7:E1:62:E0 (Static)
>>> RSSI: -44 dBm (0xd4)
>>> Flags: 0x00000000
>>> Data length: 60
>>> Flags: 0x06
>>> LE General Discoverable Mode
>>> BR/EDR Not Supported
>>> Company: Blue Maestro Limited (307)
>>> Data: 1b640e10010400e701a527f50100
>>> Name (complete): DC76F7E1
>>> Company: Blue Maestro Limited (307)
>>> Data: 27fd27f227ea0000010201b600e4017100f4018c0000000000
>>> @ MGMT Event: Device Found (0x0012) plen 74
>>> {0x0001} [hci0] 740.158704
>>> LE Address: DC:76:F7:E1:62:E0 (Static)
>>> RSSI: -44 dBm (0xd4)
>>> Flags: 0x00000000
>>> Data length: 60
>>> Flags: 0x06
>>> LE General Discoverable Mode
>>> BR/EDR Not Supported
>>> Company: Blue Maestro Limited (307)
>>> Data: 1b640e10010400e701a527f50100
>>> Name (complete): DC76F7E1
>>> Company: Blue Maestro Limited (307)
>>> Data: 27fd27f227ea0000010201b600e4017100f4018c0000000000
>>>
>>>
>>> Device information from the InterfacesAdded DBus signal:
>>>
>>> {'Adapter': '/org/bluez/hci0',
>>> 'Address': 'DC:76:F7:E1:62:E0',
>>> 'AddressType': 'random',
>>> 'Alias': 'DC76F7E1',
>>> 'Blocked': False,
>>> 'Connected': False,
>>> 'LegacyPairing': False,
>>> 'ManufacturerData': {307: [39, 253, 39, 242, 39, 234, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1,
>>> 182, 0, 228, 1, 113, 0, 244,1, 140, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]},
>>> 'Name': 'DC76F7E1',
>>> 'Paired': False,
>>> 'RSSI': -51,
>>> 'ServicesResolved': False,
>>> 'Trusted': False,
>>> 'UUIDs': []}
>>>
>>> Looking at the propertiesChanged signal on the device, it is also only
>>> showing the same manufacturer data:
>>> org.bluez.Device1 {'RSSI': -45, 'ManufacturerData': {307: [39, 253,
>>> 39, 242, 39, 234, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 182, 0, 228, 1, 113, 0, 244, 1, 140,
>>> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]}} []
>>> org.bluez.Device1 {'RSSI': -52, 'ManufacturerData': {307: [39, 253,
>>> 39, 242, 39, 234, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 182, 0, 228, 1, 113, 0, 244, 1, 140,
>>> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]}} []
>>> org.bluez.Device1 {'RSSI': -54, 'ManufacturerData': {307: [39, 253,
>>> 39, 242, 39, 234, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 182, 0, 228, 1, 113, 0, 244, 1, 140,
>>> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]}} []
>>> org.bluez.Device1 {'RSSI': -45, 'ManufacturerData': {307: [39, 253,
>>> 39, 242, 39, 234, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 182, 0, 228, 1, 113, 0, 244, 1, 140,
>>> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]}} []
>>> org.bluez.Device1 {'RSSI': -54, 'ManufacturerData': {307: [39, 253,
>>> 39, 242, 39, 234, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 182, 0, 228, 1, 113, 0, 244, 1, 140,
>>> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]}} []
>>> org.bluez.Device1 {'RSSI': -52, 'ManufacturerData': {307: [39, 253,
>>> 39, 242, 39, 234, 0, 0, 1, 2, 1, 182, 0, 228, 1, 113, 0, 244, 1, 140,
>>> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0]}} []
>>
>> this is nasty from the device. So the MGMT event should return the combined data from ADV_IND and SCAN_RSP and as you see we just concat that information coming from the kernel. However when it goes out via D-Bus, it actually gets overwritten and only one is provided.
>>
>> Now the question is how we represent the same manufacturer data coming once from ADV_IND and second from SCAN_RSP via the D-Bus API. You need to have a look into doc/device-api.txt and the code in src/device.c on how we handle this.
>>
>
> To me it appears there is a "bug" in the BlueZ API specification.
> Manufacturer data is stored as a key-value dictionary, where key is
> the manufacturer id and the value is the byte array. But the Bluetooth
> Core Specification Supplement explicitly allows more than one
> appearance of Manufacturer Specific Data (see the first section in
> CSS_v9.pdf), and it does not prohibit more than one record from the
> same manufacturer. A correct API would have Manufacturer data as a
> key-value dictionary, where the key is the manufacturer id but the
> value is an array of byte arrays.
seems the CSS really allows to have manufacturer specific data more than ones. So yes, we can introduce the value part here as array{array{uint8}}. The client code can easily detect the difference in case we have it multiple times. In case of just a single occurrence it will be still sent as array{uint8}.
Regards
Marcel
