Re: How to listen quietly for other Bluetooth devices?

2017-07-09 Thread Mikhail T.
On 08.07.2017 23:22, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: i'm not aware (not have i ever seen) of-the-shelf bluetooth dongle that is capable of going into "promiscuous" mode. Thank you, Max, for sharing your expertise... So, you are saying, the decision on whether to notify the host of a particular bit of

Re: How to listen quietly for other Bluetooth devices?

2017-07-09 Thread maksim yevmenkin
>> i'm not aware (not have i ever seen) of-the-shelf bluetooth dongle that is >> capable of going into "promiscuous" mode. > Thank you, Max, for sharing your expertise... So, you are saying, the > decision on whether to notify the host of a particular bit of traffic the > dongle "hears" is cont

Ubertooth (Re: How to listen quietly for other Bluetooth devices?)

2017-07-09 Thread Mikhail T.
On 09.07.2017 12:54, maksim yevmenkin wrote: Of course HCI has provision for so called "vendor" commands. Those are specific to each vendor and generally not documented. It is possible that some vendor may have implemented commands that allow low level access to baseband, however, I never saw a

Re: Ubertooth (Re: How to listen quietly for other Bluetooth devices?)

2017-07-09 Thread maksim yevmenkin
>> Of course HCI has provision for so called "vendor" commands. Those are >> specific to each vendor and generally not documented. It is possible that >> some vendor may have implemented commands that allow low level access to >> baseband, however, I never saw anything like that. > On the note

Re: Ubertooth (Re: How to listen quietly for other Bluetooth devices?)

2017-07-09 Thread Mikhail T.
On 09.07.2017 18:54, maksim yevmenkin wrote: Interesting... I personally have not seen this. Thank you for the pointer. It looks like custom hardware running custom firmware. This should be able to give full access to baseband. Still kinda pricey. Ubertooth one hardware sells for $120 at sparkf