Re: [Gumstix-users] Anyone used or using blueprobe ?

[Alex G. <al...@al...>]

On 16/01/2011 1:21 PM, Bob Cochran wrote:
> Bill,
>
> I've never heard of blueprobe until now, but I tracked down the package
> source code and it looks pretty old -- blueprobe-0.19 was posted to
> http://gpe.linuxtogo.org/download/source/ on 14 August 2008. It is not
> mentioned in the user wiki for bluetooth:
>
> http://www.gumstix.net/wiki/index.php?title=Category:How_to_-_bluetooth
>
>
> Bob Cochran


Depending on what you need its easy to get a simple sniffer up and 
running quickly
using python and pybluez.

Make sure bluez is installed
packages bluez-utils bluez4-dev bluez4

install pybluez
packages python-pybluez python-pybluez-dev

also need
python python-modules

Can use  hcitool via subprocess.Popen

e.g
cmd0 = '/usr/bin/hcitool inq '
process0 = subprocess.Popen(self.cmd0, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, shell=True)
btdevice = process0.stdout.readlines()




Try the pybluez examples first
http://code.google.com/p/pybluez/
http://code.google.com/p/pybluez/wiki/Documentation
http://code.google.com/p/pybluez/source/browse/trunk/examples/simple/inquiry.py

We use hcitool via python with scapy
for bluetooth and wifi scanning (visitor monitoring)

Alex

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