Re: Reconciling hcidump output with btmon

Hi Dave,

When I run "hcidump -R", I see (among other output) lines like these,

quoted

04 3E 26 02 01 03 01 69 57 93 F1 99 F8 1A 02 01 04 09 09 39

   36 37 35 39 39 38 46 07 16 09 18 EB 03 00 FE 04 16 0F 18 3E
   A5

But trying every available option for "btmon", I can't find anything
remotely similar. How can I get this information using "btmon"? Or can
I -- does "btmon" show this type of information? Is there some other
command that would be more appropriate?

I understand that "hcidump" has been deprecated for several years. Yet
the output of "btmon" seems to imply that it is calling "hcidump". That
doesn't make sense to me. For example,

 @ RAW Open: hcidump (privileged) version 2.22 {0x0002} [hci0] 1.894682
 @ RAW Open: hcidump (privileged) version 2.22 {0x0003} 1.894702
 @ RAW Close: hcidump                          {0x0003} 1.894708
 @ RAW Close: hcidump                          {0x0002} [hci0] 1.894718

I don’t know what that is, but it seems that something else in your system is calling hcidump binary. However it is for sure not btmon calling the hcidump binary and you can verify that in the btmon source code.

The hcidump -R functionality is rather useless. If you really want it, then you can get it by opening the monitor socket directly. I really don’t know what you wanted it for.

Regards

Marcel