bluetooth

An embryo for an Erlang bluetooth application.

Prerequisites

1. Install Bluez (5.10)
2. To enable the bluetooth adapter and put it in scan mode, do:
   

   sudo hciconfig hci0 up
   sudo hciconfig hci0 piscan
   

Example run - handling names

1> bluetooth_interface:get_local_name().
{ok,"Azure:Dec  3 2010,00:24:03"}

2> bluetooth_interface:set_local_name("pepparkakehus").
ok
3> bluetooth_interface:get_local_name().
{ok,"pepparkakehus"}

4> {ok, Addrs} = bluetooth_interface:discover().
{ok,["00:02:72:C0:63:F4"]}
5> bluetooth_interface:get_remote_name(hd(Addrs)).
{ok,"datorbebis"}

Debugging

Install package bluez-hcidump and dump all traffic with

  sudo hcidump hci0 -X