bt-adapter - a bluetooth adapter manager

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  OPTIONS  ADAPTER PROPERTIES  AUTHOR  SEE ALSO 

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NAME

bt−adapter − a bluetooth adapter manager

SYNOPSIS

bt-adapter [ OPTION... ]

Help Options:
−h, −−help

Application Options:
−l, −−list
−a, −−adapter=<name|mac>
−i, −−info
−d, −−discover
−−set <property> <value>

DESCRIPTION

This utility is used to manage Bluetooth adapters. You can list all available adapters, show information about adapter, change adapter properties or discover remote devices.

OPTIONS

−h, −−help
Show help

−l, −−list
List all available adapters

−a, −−adapter <name|mac>
Specify adapter to use by his Name or MAC address
(if this option does not defined − default adapter used)

−i, −−info
Show information about adapter (returns all properties)

−d, −−discover
Discover remote devices (with remote device name resolving)

−−set <property> <value>
Change adapter properties (see ADAPTER PROPERTIES section for list
of available properties)

ADAPTER PROPERTIES

string Address [ro]
The Bluetooth adapter address ( MAC ).

string Alias [rw]
The Bluetooth adapter friendly name.

uint32 Class [ro]
The Bluetooth class of device.

boolean Powered [rw]
Switch an adapter on or off. This will also set the
appropiate connectable state.

boolean Discoverable [rw]
Switch an adapter to discoverable or non-discoverable
to either make it visible or hide it.

If the DiscoverableTimeout is set to a non−zero
value then the system will set this value back to
false after the timer expired.
In case the adapter is switched off, setting this
value will fail.

boolean Pairable [rw]
Switch an adapter to pairable or non-pairable.

Note that this property only affects incoming pairing
requests.

uint32 PaireableTimeout [rw]
The pairable timeout in seconds. A value of zero
means that the timeout is disabled and it will stay in
pareable mode forever.

uint32 DiscoverableTimeout [rw]
The discoverable timeout in seconds. A value of zero
means that the timeout is disabled and it will stay in
discoverable/limited mode forever.

The default value for the discoverable timeout should
be 180 seconds (3 minutes).

boolean Discovering [ro]
Indicates that a device discovery procedure is active.

list UUIDs [ro]
List of 128−bit UUIDs that represents the available local
services.

AUTHOR

Alexander Orlenko <[email protected]>.

SEE ALSO

bt−agent(1) bt−device(1) bt−network(1)

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