schollz / find3-cli-scanner

The command-line scanner that supports Bluetooth and WiFi
https://www.internalpositioning.com/doc/tracking_your_computer.md
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Discussion/Feature Request: Support NAME requests for BLE #27

Open efirestone opened 5 years ago

efirestone commented 5 years ago

For privacy reasons, most Apple devices, and some Android devices use randomized Bluetooth addresses when not paired to a host device. Devices do however use their real address when responding to a NAME request, but that request must already include the real address in the request.

Other projects, such as Monitor use a "known BLE addresses" list, and then issue NAME requests to figure out a device's real Bluetooth address.

Is this something that would be useful to FIND when doing passive scanning, or does it have some other way of consistently identifying a device?