Posted: September 6th, 2009 | Author: john | Filed under: twitter | Tags: Bluetooth, btlogger, twitter | No Comments »
I finally got around to fixing btlogger. It broke after an Ubuntu upgrade which contained BlueZ changes. Anyway, I have moved the code over to Gitorious and made a new tarball and Debian package.
Binary: http://zedstar.org/deb/btlogger_0.3.3-1_i386.deb
Tarball: http://zedstar.org/tarballs/btlogger-0.3.3.tar.gz
Repo: git clone git://gitorious.org/btlogger/btlogger.git
Take a look at the README for further information.
Posted: March 6th, 2009 | Author: john | Filed under: thumbtribes | Tags: Bluetooth, btlogger, twitter | 5 Comments »
I decided to hack my Bluetooth logger so that it could post any new devices it saw to my Twitter account. This should be interesting once I get it setup on my desk at work! After moving to Intrepid Ibex I realised the changes in BlueZ versions borked my software. It took me a while to figure out what needed to be fixed. Anyway, these changes and Twitter hack are available as a tarball here:
zedstar.org/tarballs/btlogger-0.3.2.tar.gz
The tarball should install an sqlite db file in /var/lib/misc but you can move it else where if you don’t want to run as root. If you supply a username and password on the command line it will try and post the scan results to Twitter like:
http://twitter.com/jptmoore
To see the command line options run btlogger –help
Posted: September 27th, 2008 | Author: john | Filed under: thumbtribes | Tags: beagleboard, Bluetooth | No Comments »
Here is a picture of the hardware I will use for logging Bluetooth data.
Posted: September 17th, 2008 | Author: john | Filed under: thumbtribes | Tags: beagleboard, Bluetooth | No Comments »
Bluedog is the name I am going to give to my Bluetooth traffic/stats project I aim to start soon. I have the hardware and software setup with my beagleboard. Ideally I want to setup a few of these at the University where I work and start logging some data in similar nature to http://www.bluetoothtracking.org/
I will post some pics of my hardware setup soon.
Posted: September 17th, 2008 | Author: john | Filed under: thumbtribes | Tags: beagleboard, Bluetooth, btlogger | No Comments »
I have built btlogger for the beagleboard. The ipk is available:
http://zedstar.org/beagle/btlogger_0.2.2-r0_armv7a.ipk
It requires the sqlite db some where on the device. Download:
http://projects.openmoko.org/frs/download.php/313/btlog.db
run btlogger -v to see what it does and reference the db file with -d /location/of/file
TODO:
- I am going to modify the program to log more stats.
- I should also add the database to the ipk so it installs automatically
Posted: September 7th, 2008 | Author: john | Filed under: thumbtribes | Tags: Bluetooth, gps, thumbtribes | No Comments »
Continuing my theme of projects that suffer from issues of critical mass I have began work on fakesat. I was looking for something to do with my beagleboard so decided that using it for this project would be fun. I have ordered a 100 meter Bluetooth dongle so will see how well that really works. I am interested in low cost community driven alternatives to GPS especially ones that work well in urban environments.
Posted: June 8th, 2008 | Author: john | Filed under: thumbtribes | Tags: Bluetooth, btlogger | No Comments »
I have updated btlogger to allow various command line options. The software should work on any Linux system with Bluetooth. There is a packaged version for Openmoko:
https://projects.openmoko.org/plugins/wiki/index.php?btlogger&id=136&type=g
and a binary for the Nokia Tablet:
http://zedstar.org/chinook/btlogger
An empty database can be dowloaded from here:
http://projects.openmoko.org/plugins/scmcvs/cvsweb.php/thumbtribes_project/misc/btlog.db?cvsroot=thumbtribes
