bluetooth and bluetoothle scanner

[benroeder]

This just counts the number of devices.
This is can be used as a proxy for the number of people/devices in the area

Requires the following
apt install libbluetooth-dev libglib2.0-dev libglib2.0-dev
sudo pip3 install pybluez
sudo pip3 install bluepy

to enable in config.ini
; ====================================================================
; Bluetooth tests settings
; (Changes made in this section will be used in next test cycle)
; ====================================================================
[BLUETOOTH_SCANNER_test]
; yes = enabled, no = disabled
enabled: yes
;
; ----- Advanced settings for Bluetooth scanner tests section, do not change -----------
; Name used for bluetootscanner_test file/data group/data source
bluetoothscanner_data_file: wiperf-bluetoothscanner

[wifinigel]

Hi Ben,

Thanks for the PR.

I'm not sure this is a feature that aligns with the aims of the project, which is an end-user experience network performance tool. I understand that Bluetooth traffic could impact the user experience on 2.4GHz, but this project measures the performance of the network connection being used by the probe.

I think this would be a much better fit as a new feature on the WLAN Pi project to provide a tool that users can use to determine local Bluetooth activity for wireless troubleshooting. Would you mind if we moved that across to that project instead?

[benroeder]

That is fine, but I have found this useful in working out how many people are near the aps, which can effect their performance

[wifinigel]

Ben,

I agree. I think it's a great tool for wireless guys to have access to. My apologies, but I have so many bug fixes and features to implement and so little time, I am trying to keep the scope of the project quite tight to save my sanity.

Have you tested this on the WLAN Pi platform? It would be a nice feature to add to that project (https://wlan-pi.github.io/wlanpi-documentation/). Obviously, as a package it could also run on the RPi too if you have adapters that will work on there.

[benroeder]

NanoPi NEO2 does not have Bluetooth on board, and only has one USB port, and I guess most people are going to use that for WIFI :-)