If i use bluez hcitool, like hcitool scan then I could see packets in wireshark properly under interface bluetooth0. And I am sure that bluez in using on-board Bluetooth chip.
I have written my own application with my own Bluetooth stack ( i am not using bluez ) for USB Bluetooth dongle (using libusb ), but when I start wireshark with bluetooth1 interface, then wireshark not show any packet.
Should my application send packets to wireshark? if so, can some one please direct me how to see my Bluetooth packets in wireshark?
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Is there an easy way to send and receive BLE raw packets on Linux, e.g. Raspberry Pi devices? Very simply, I would like to use BLE as packet radio, i.e. exchange data packets over the air among several devices. Every device knows the MAC address of all other devices. The BLE packet format is very straightforward. I would think one should be able to put user data into the PDU (2~257 bytes) then push it through a socket to be sent out through the BLE PHY, just like how one can send raw UDP packets through a NIC. But I cannot figure out a straightforward way to achieve this after quite a bit of investigation. I suppose hcitool cmd could send packets if used correctly? But its usage is very cryptic.
The node client/server functions here do exactly this: exchange raw packets via BLE over a network of Pis. See section 3.7 in the documentation for NODE connections.
https://github.com/petzval/btferret
If I'm not mistaken l2ping is used to perform an L2CAP echo request to a connected BLE (Bluetooth low energy) peripheral (see l2ping source code). It is working if I try to ping my Smartphone, but not if I try to ping a BLE peripheral.
I am using BeagleBone Black and Bluetooth USB dongle V4.0. My dongle is detecting iBeacons with no problems but is there any way to detect mobile phones with bluetooth on. I am using NodeJs and Noble package.
So when I use hcitool lescan it's not finding mobile phone either but with hcitool there is option scan. When I call hcitool scan in terminal I get my mobile as result. Is there any NodeJs package that wraps this option. I have no need to connect to mobile device, I just need to discover it's presence, and see it's MAC address.
If you can see your device with "hcitool scan" and not with "hcitool lescan" it means your phone(or BT stack you use in phone) don't support BLE protocol. Not all BT devices are BLE capable.
If I am listening to Ethernet packets going across a Wi-Fi network using a card in monitor mode, and listening to Bluetooth packets using an Ubertooth, is there any way to link both types of packets to devices? As far as I am aware there no commonality between the Bluetooth BD_ADDR and the Ethernet MAC address of a device.
Essentially: is there a common denominator in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth packets that can be used to link the two?
Edit: just to add, the device in question is a smartphone.
I have been asked to figure out how to achieve bluetooth communication through an off-the-shelf dongle (in this case a dongle utilizing the Broadcom BCM2045 chip) using the FTDI Vinculum 2 (VNC2) USB controller. I have custom firmware written for the VNC2 to communicate with a generic USB device with the VNC2 acting as the host, and I can successfully read the VID and PID from the dongle as well as the USB device class, subclass, and protocol. I can also send data to the dongle using the bulk data endpoint and I believe the device is receiving though I have no way to tell at the moment.
So I believe I can communicate with the dongle, the problem is I have no idea WHAT to communicate to it in order to set it up in discoverable mode or to pair it with another discoverable device, nor how to actually transmit data through the wireless link once it is paired. I don't even know if there exists a standard communication protocol for this type of thing or if every device will be different. I have a vague understanding of the bluetooth protocol stack and it is my understanding that I won't be required to fully understand that as it should be implemented in the dongle on one end and in the android smartphone that we hope to connect to on the other end. Like I said, I can currently send data to the bulk endpoint, is it true that this endpoint is only for data transfer over the wireless link and I will need to connect to a different endpoint in order to send setup/configuration messages to the dongle?
In short, I need to know what data to send over the USB bus to control any generic bluetooth dongle if possible or at least one specific bluetooth dongle. I have a USB port sniffer but the complexity of the output while using the dongle to communicate is staggering and I doubt I'll ever figure it out.
Thank you in advance.
Bluetooth dongles communicate with host software stack using HCI (host control interface), which is defined in the Bluetooth spec. For reference, you can look at source code for the open source BlueZ stack (standard linux stack). You could run BlueZ on linux talking to your USB dongle, and use hcidump to capture actual packets going across HCI. You can also check out hcitool and hciconfig for performing specific actions.