Raw BLE advertisement tool

This tool is for receiving/sending raw BLE advertisement messages. The project is based on the Linux Bluetooth protocol stack, BlueZ.

The is configured for Raspberry Pi 3 and LIB_DIRECTORY needs to be set properly for other environments.

Preparation

Install dependencies.

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

Compilation

make

Usage

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 the message to advertise.