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btlogger update

john — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 17:41:23 +0000

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.

Bluetooth logging to Twitter with btlogger

john — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:17:55 +0000

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

Bluetooth logging hardware

john — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 12:15:11 +0000

Here is a picture of the hardware I will use for logging Bluetooth data.

Bluedog

john — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:52:31 +0000

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.

btlogger for the beagleboard

john — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:42:16 +0000

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

fakesat

john — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:50:41 +0000

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.

btlogger 0.2

john — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 15:06:40 +0000

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