Raw BLE advertisement tool

This tool is for receiving/sending raw BLE advertisement message. The code is based on the Bluez library. It works on Linux only (maybe).

The makefile is configured for Raspberry Pi 3 at this point. LIB_DIRECTORY needs to be set properly for other environments.

Preparation

Install dependencies.

sudo apt-get install libdbus-1-dev libdbus-glib-1-dev libglib2.0-dev libical-dev libreadline-dev libudev-dev libusb-dev make
sudo apt-get install bluetooth bluez-utils 

Make

make

How to use

The following shows the usage.

./bletool -h

If you want to receive advertisements, use -r option to set the tool receive mode.

./bletool -r

If you want to send advetisement, use -s option to set the tool send mode.

./bletool -s 00112233445566778899

The parameter following "-s" is the hex string of message.