Experiments with Bluetooth Low Energy (4.0) under Linux

Experiments with Bluetooth Low Energy (4.0) under Linux

 

With iPhônes liberated from the apple authentication chip by it, and Android also having added support in the latest Android 4.3, Bluetooth Low Energy (4.0) is starting to look more interesting.

In this blog post I'm going to use a bluegiga BT111 based USB bluetooth dongle on Linux as a client and a  TI CC2541 SensorTag as server.

USB dongle in computer

The SensorTag is a nice little bluetooth 4 example device provided by Texas Instruments.

Device

First step is put the device in the computer. As my laptop already has an existing bluetooth device build-in, the new one will enumerate as "hci1". This can be found out also by using hcitool.

 

 

$ hcitool dev
Devices:
        hci1    00:07:80:60:CE:4D hci0 EC:55:F9:F4:A0:xx

In this case the bluetooth mac address of the BT111 is 00:07:80:60:CE:4D.

Scanning for a device

Normal bluetooth scanning is done with hcitool scan. Low Energy scanning is done with hcitool lescan.

Make sure to press the button on the side of the SensorTag first to make it discoverable. Scanning is continuous to stop it with Ctrl-C. Low Energy devices require root access hence the sudo. I would expect being in the bluetooth group to be enough but for some reason it isn't.

 

 

$ sudo hcitool -i hci1 lescan
LE Scan ... BC:6A:29:AC:2E:B4 (unknown) BC:6A:29:AC:2E:B4 SensorTag BC:6A:29:AC:2E:B4 (unknown) BC:6A:29:AC:2E:B4 SensorTag BC:6A:29:AC:2E:B4 (unknown) ^C

Using gatttool to access the device

Now we know the address of the SensorTag: BC:6A:29:AC:2E:B4. In contrast with regular Bluetooth where there are a whole range of protocols, with Bluetooth Low Energy there is only one protocol at the top and it is GATT (Generic Attribute).

 

The actual functionality of a device is implemented by means of attributes which can be read, written to or notification/indication enabled for, depending on the attribute.

 

gatttool is a simple Linux tool that can be used to manipulate these attributes with a Bluetooth Low Energy device. It can be used as a simple command line tool but I find it easier to use it in it's interactive mode.

 

Let's enter the interactive mode.

 

 

 

 

$ sudo gatttool -i hci1 -b BC:6A:29:AC:2E:B4 -I [ ][BC:6A:29:AC:2E:B4][LE]>

It returns us a prompt. Let's connect to the device.

[   ][BC:6A:29:AC:2E:B4][LE]> connect [CON][BC:6A:29:AC:2E:B4][LE]>

The CON indication tells us that the connection is established.
Now the primary command can be used to find the primary services of the device.

[CON][BC:6A:29:AC:2E:B4][LE]> primary [CON][BC:6A:29:AC:2E:B4][LE]> attr handle: 0x0001, end grp handle: 0x000b uuid: 00001800-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb attr handle: 0x000c, end grp handle: 0x000f uuid: 00001801-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb attr handle: 0x0010, end grp handle: 0x0022 uuid: 0000180a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb attr handle: 0x0023, end grp handle: 0x002a uuid: f000aa00-0451-4000-b000-000000000000 attr handle: 0x002b, end grp handle: 0x0035 uuid: f000aa10-0451-4000-b000-000000000000 attr handle: 0x0036, end grp handle: 0x003d uuid: f000aa20-0451-4000-b000-000000000000 attr handle: 0x003e, end grp handle: 0x0048 uuid: f000aa30-0451-4000-b000-000000000000 attr handle: 0x0049, end grp handle: 0x0054 uuid: f000aa40-0451-4000-b000-000000000000 attr handle: 0x0055, end grp handle: 0x005c uuid: f000aa50-0451-4000-b000-000000000000 attr handle: 0x005d, end grp handle: 0x0061

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