How to use UBUS commands for Bluetooth device scanning / pairing

Introduction

This page contains instructions on how to use ubus commands in CLI / SSH to scan and pair Bluetooth devices on RUTX10/11.

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The ubus command line tool allows to interact with the ubusd server (with all currently registered services). It's useful for investigating/debugging registered namespaces as well as writing shell scripts. For calling procedures with parameters and returning responses it uses the user-friendly JSON format.

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Before you start using ubus commands to control Bluetooth, make sure to enable it first. You can do that in Network → Bluetooth → General settings. Click Enable Bluetooth and press Save & Apply.

• Now login to CLI or SSH and initialize blesemd, run blesemd -D command:

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root@Teltonika-RUTX11:~# blesemd -D
Initializing blesemd...
Warning: debug messages will be shown!
Preparing bluetooth interface...
Reading config...
Devices loaded: 0
Creating database...
modbus_data table already exists
SENT_ID_TABLE already exists
Create DB done
Initializing uloop...
Connecting to ubus...
Initializing BLE device...
Initializing BLE ubus interface...
Adding ubus object...
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• Run scan.start command to start Bluetooth scan:

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ubus call blesem scan.start
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• To see scan results, use command scan.result:

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ubus call blesem scan.result
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The scan process takes about 30 seconds. If you can see "scanning": 1 in the output, it means, that scanning is still in progress. After it finishes you should see a similar output:

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{ 
      "scanning": 0, 
      "devices": [ 
              { 
                      "name": "RT_T", 
                      "rssi": -72, 
                      "address": "FF:CB:FF:6F:23:FB" 
              } 
      ] 
}
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The list of devices always contains "rssi" and "address", but "name" output might be missing if the device is not supported:

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{ 
      "scanning": 0, 
      "devices": [ 
              {  
                      "rssi": -42, 
                      "address": "2F:2A:0A:0A:7A:AA" 
              },
              { 
                      "name": "RT_T", 
                      "rssi": -77, 
                      "address": "CF:0A:52:5E:35:D7" 
              } 
      ] 
}
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• In order to pair devices use this command:

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ubus call blesem pair '{"address":"FF:CC:FF:6A:23:CB"}'
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If the pairing process was successful you should see this output:

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{ 
      "success": "device successfully paired" 
}
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• To get the statistics from paired devices, use stat command:

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ubus call blesem stat '{"address":"FF:CB:FA:6A:23:CB"}'
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You should see similar output:

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{ 
      "success": "successfully requested status",
      "model": "3901",
      "battery": 98,
      "temperature": "20.34",
      "humidity": 20,
      "firmware": "23",
.
}
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