On 28 August 2015 at 13:28, Chuck McManis <chuck.mcma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Very cool gizmo. I've got gnuradio installed and gqrx running and > playing with that (fun to listen to ATC traffic around the Bay Area).
I'm glad you like it and are having fun with it. > I tried to install gr-bluetooth with pybombs but that blew up on the > lack of a libtbb Pybombs should be able to install libbtbb as a dependency for gr-bluetooth. I'll have to investigate the recipe file. > and in hunting that down it seems that really > gr-bluetooh is more about the Ubertooth than the HackRF, I'm wondering > if that is a structural problem or what? gr-bluetooth was designed to be used with GNU Radio before either HackRF or Ubertooth existed. When Mike designed Ubertooth, I took the Bluetooth baseband parts out of gr-bluetooth and put them in to their own library. Some parts of gr-bluetooth are able to use it, but I don't think the transition was ever finished because nobody was using gr-bluetooth. > Can I use the HackRF at Bluetooh/Zigbee frequencies? (they are all 2.4Ghz > range) You certainly can, there is probably already a gr-zigbee project available to monitor it. > Does the Ubertooth do more? less? about the same? Ubertooth will sniff a single channel of Bluetooth basic rate packets and may be able to hop in some circumstances. In theory a working copy of gr-bluetooth with HackRF can monitor 20 simultaneous channels. > My target is that I'm developing beacon software that will be using > both BTLE and Zigbee. For a variety of reasons I'm using a soft radio > and would like to be able to validate its signals beyond simply having > at least one other non-soft radio receive the signal. Fixing gr-bluetooth is certainly an option, although Ubertooth has very good BLE support from Mike Ryan, so that may be a more useful way to go if you're more interested in monitoring the BLE traffic than writing gr-bluetooth code (which would be a very understandable set of priorities). Thanks, Dominic _______________________________________________ HackRF-dev mailing list HackRF-dev@greatscottgadgets.com https://pairlist9.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/hackrf-dev
