From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: BlueZ Mailing List <bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bluez-users] Detecting RSSI without connecting
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 01:29:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1099960170.29330.43.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <qszactrj3c5.fsf@timepilot.gpcc.itd.umich.edu>
Hi Scott,
> For a project I'm working on, I'd like to determine which of several
> (possibly many) Bluetooth devices is closest. "Best RSSI" is a good
> enough approximation of "closest" for my purposes, and since there may
> be many devices and I don't have any other interest in them, I'd like
> to get the RSSI without establishing a connection with each device.
>
> It appears that "hcitool rssi <bdaddr>" requires that a connection is
> established. Do any cards provide a way of getting RSSI that doesn't
> require establishing a connection?
starting with the Bluetooth 1.2 specification it is possible to get the
RSSI value from the inquiry results. Check the mailing list archives for
more details.
Regards
Marcel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-09 0:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-09 0:03 [Bluez-users] Detecting RSSI without connecting Scott W Gifford
2004-11-09 0:29 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2004-11-24 20:44 ` Scott W Gifford
2004-11-25 12:24 ` Steven Singer
2004-11-25 20:11 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-11-25 20:08 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-11-26 9:16 ` [Bluez-users] Firmware update & HID profile (Was: Detecting RSSI without connecting) Diego Liziero
2004-11-26 17:28 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-11-30 4:44 ` [Bluez-users] Detecting RSSI without connecting Scott W Gifford
2004-11-30 5:31 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-11-30 6:30 ` Scott W Gifford
2004-11-30 6:41 ` Marcel Holtmann
2004-12-02 0:36 ` Scott W Gifford
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