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Comment on: Make a low-cost Bluetooth LE packet sniffer with Wireshark
I an the sole developer of a product that uses bluetooth (classic not BLE) and have struggled so much with bluetooth (documentation and APIs just seem not that helpful or complete or are at such a low level that they aren't useful unless you already know everything), but I will try to give an answer and hopefully if I am wrong someone can educate us.My understanding is that most bluetooth devices interface with the operating system over a standardized host controller interface (HCI) over a UART or SPI interface. Basically the OS sends some standardized commands to the HCI and receives some dat