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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 17:18:13 -0200
From: Vinicius Costa Gomes <vcgomes@gmail.com>
To: Kevin Wilson <wkevils@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Bluetooth tools
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Hi Kevin,

On 09:40 Sat 26 Oct, Kevin Wilson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I saw that bluetoothctl and btmon are the newer tool of Bluetooth.
> 
> What are the advantages of bluetoothctl over hciconfig/hcitool?

I would not say advantages, as they have very different aims, bluetoothctl is
meant to be used in the day-to-day (think scanning for a device, pairing
with it, changing the discoverability, etc); hciconfig/hcitool are more for
development/debugging (think disabling SSP mode, enabling periodic inquiry,
etc), they are more similar to btmgmt than to bluetoothctl.

> 
> What are the advantages of btmon over hcidump ?

btmon also tracks events from the Management interface. And colors ;-)

> 
> 
> Regards,
> Kevin
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Cheers,
-- 
Vinicius