Return-Path: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2016 20:53:38 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Receiving BLE advertisements over DBus From: Barry Byford <31baz66@gmail.com> To: Bluez mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello Chris, On 27 February 2016 at 00:08, Chris Jackson wrote: > Is it possible to receive BLE advertisements over the DBus interface - if so, how? > > I suspect that the answer is that it’s not currently possible - is there any plans to add such support? It seems that this is something that is becoming more necessary as the number of devices sending data in the discovery packet increases… > > Any information on this would be appreciated - if necessary I’d be happy to look at implementing something if the BlueZ architects can comment on a recommended approach. > > Thanks > Chris-- Are you talking about getting the data from beacons that are doing non-connectable advertising? I'm sure Johan will correct me if I'm wrong but I think this is what he has recently fixed. I believe there have been a problem with this in 5.37 and before. Although this should now be fixed by this commit: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/?id=43657d77037302268b6ef02724c66eda416cf3e7 The beacons in tools have also been corrected: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/?id=42d1c2f0ba790e8a2050d5fcf8b45e0c563776ef Regards, Barry