bt-adapter (1) Linux Manual Page

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 <zxteam [at] gmail.com>.

See Also

bt-agent(1) bt-device(1) bt-network(1)