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Date:      Sat, 8 Jul 2017 21:00:46 -0400
From:      "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com>
To:        "freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org" <freebsd-bluetooth@freebsd.org>
Subject:   How to listen quietly for other Bluetooth devices?
Message-ID:  <085c77b2-9f40-5a1f-0b49-86a24e561fce@aldan.algebra.com>

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Hello!

I'd like my FreeBSD computer to detect the presence of other 
Bluetooth-devices nearby.

I have a little USB-dongle plugged into it, which is recognized as ubt0. 
I started "hcidump -a" while turning Bluetooth on the iPhone next to the 
dongle on and trying to link to a pair of BT-headphones. The "hcidump" 
didn't print any traffic even though, of course, the phone did try to 
radio out.

How can the detection be made to work? Note, I don't want to decode any 
communications between BT-devices. I just want to detect their presence 
and what information about them, that's not encrypted...

Thanks! Yours,

    -mi




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