bluelog
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Bluelog is a Bluetooth scanner designed to tell you how many discoverable devices there are in an area as quickly as possible. It is intended to be used as a site survey tool, identifying the number of possible Bluetooth targets there are in the surrounding environment.
Usage
Usage: bluelog [options]
Basic Options
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
-i <interface> | Sets scanning device, default is "hci0" |
-o <filename> | Sets output filename, default is "devices.log" |
-v | Verbose, prints discovered devices to the terminal |
-q | Quiet, turns off nonessential terminal output |
-d | Enables daemon mode, Bluelog will run in background |
-k | Kill an already running Bluelog process |
-l | Start "Bluelog Live", default is disabled |
Logging Options
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
-n | Write device names to log, default is disabled |
-m | Write device manufacturer to log, default is disabled |
-c | Write device class to log, default is disabled |
-f | Use "friendly" device class, default is disabled |
-t | Write timestamps to log, default is disabled |
-x | Obfuscate discovered MACs, default is disabled |
-e | Encode discovered MACs with CRC32, default disabled |
-b | Enable BlueProPro log format, see README |
Advanced Options
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
-r <retries> | Name resolution retries, default is 3 |
-a <minutes> | Amnesia, Bluelog will forget device after given time |
-w <seconds> | Scanning window in seconds, see README |
-s | Syslog only mode, no log file. Default is disabled |