Getting remote bluetooth device address - KISS

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This is a lazy man , KISS , Linux question.
Is there a simple command to obtain JUST the address?
For example somethingsimilar to

system("hciconfig name ");

I have no issues extracting required data from temporary files, just curious if somebody has a simpler approach.

What I have tried:

I have used hcitool and hciconfig and then extracted JUST the bluetooth device address from the output (file) or any other data from file.

I am currently trying getaddrinfo, but so far no success.

Posted 1-Mar-20 4:21am

Vaclav_

Updated 3-Mar-20 13:52pm

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Solution 2

Using grep still requires C++ code to get JUST the address or name of BT remote device.

The KISS solution is here:

hci_read_remote_name

returns both address and name

Posted 3-Mar-20 13:52pm

Vaclav_

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phil.o · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-02T01:21:00

Solution 1

You could use grep[^] to isolate the part of output you are interested in.

hciconfig name | grep "(isolating regular expression)"

Posted 2-Mar-20 1:21am

phil.o

Updated 2-Mar-20 15:16pm

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Vaclav_ 2-Mar-20 10:26am

Perfect solution , beats fiddling with "string".

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