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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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  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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