Re: How to test/debug bluetooth advertising [with hciconfig]?

[Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko.news@gmail.com>]

Hi Richard,

On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:22:01AM +0100, Richard Neill wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> I'm trying to get "hello world" working from the shell between 2
> Bluetooth 4 dongles, in LE advertising mode. I wonder whether I
> could ask for some pointers?
> 
> As I understand it, Bluetooth low-energy supports up to 31 bytes of
> arbitrary text in the advertising packet. So it should be possible
> to set one dongle up in LE-advertising mode, and a second in LE-scan
> mode, and to transfer the "hello world" message from one to the
> other.
> 
> I'm rather stuck at the moment. I've discovered that there is an "LE
> Set Advertising Data" command, 0xcf (from "hciconfig hci0
> commands_list"), and that "hcitool -i hci0 cmd 0xcf XXX YYY ZZZ" is
$ hcitool cmd --help
Usage:
	cmd <ogf> <ocf> [parameters]

Check ogf and ocf from the Bluetooth Specification.

Best regards 
Andrei Emeltchenko