Ubertooth (Re: How to listen quietly for other Bluetooth devices?)

[Mikhail T.]

On 09.07.2017 18:54, maksim yevmenkin wrote:
> Interesting... I personally have not seen this. Thank you for the 
> pointer. It looks like custom hardware running custom firmware. This 
> should be able to give full access to baseband. Still kinda pricey. 
> Ubertooth one hardware sells for $120 at sparkfun. That's 3x price of 
> raspberry pi 2/3 :) for a fraction of general usability :) could make 
> an relatively inexpensive Bluetooth scanner though.
>
They are using "bluez" to flush their own firmware into the dongle, it 
seems. I doubt, they make their own chipset -- it may be possible to 
flush the same firmware into a much cheaper dongle with the same chipset...

    -mi