hcxbtdumptool

Small tool to capture packets from Bluetooth devices.

Initial commit - no Bluetooth functions - only help and version menue and Bluetooth device information available.

This is a playground to get some knowledge about coding Bluetooth.

Everything is high experimental.

Similar to hcxdumptool (WiFi) we use ioctl() system calls to control the device.

Brief description

Stand-alone binaries - designed to run on Raspberry Pi's with installed Arch Linux. It may work on other Linux systems (notebooks, desktops) and distributions, too.

Detailed description

Tool	Description
hcxbtdumptool	Tool to dump Bluetooth packets

Get source

git clone https://github.com/ZerBea/hcxbtdumptool.git
cd hcxbtdumptool

Compile

make
make install (as super user)

Requirements

• Operatingsystem: Arch Linux (strict), Kernel >= 5.4 (strict). It may work on other Linux systems (notebooks, desktops) and distributions, too (no support for other distributions, no support for other operating systems)

• gcc 10 recommended (deprecated versions are not supported: https://gcc.gnu.org/)

• bluetooth and libbluetooth-dev installed

• Raspberry Pi A, B, A+, B+, Zero (WH). (Recommended: Zero (WH) or A+, because of a very low power consumption), but notebooks and desktops may work, too.

• GPIO hardware mod recommended (push button and LED).

Adapters

VENDOR MODEL	ID
generic CSR 4.0 devic	ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
DELOCK CLASS 1 EDR 150m	ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)