toolBLEx
by Emeric Grange
Bluetooth device scanner and analyzer
Broad permissions
Verified creator
GPL-3.0+
v0.17
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About
A multiplatform Bluetooth Low Energy (and Classic) device scanner and analyzer.
Features:
- Bluetooth host adapters info
- RSSI graph / proximity graph (BLE and classic)
- Device scanner (BLE and classic)
- Device advertisement and services explorer (BLE)
- Read/write on device characteristics data (BLE)
- Export device info: advertisement packets, services and characteristics (with or without values)
- Frequency analyzer (ONLY if you have an Ubertooth One)
Permissions
1 permission weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.
- talks to system service org.bluez
--system-talk-name=org.bluez - inter-process communication (needed for X11)
--share=ipc - network
--share=network - X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
--socket=fallback-x11 - Wayland display
--socket=wayland - GPU acceleration
--device=dri - Bluetooth
--allow=bluetooth
Who publishes this
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publisher:flathub
Maintenance
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