BTMON(1)

NAME
btmon - Bluetooth monitor

SYNOPSIS

btmon [OPTIONS ...]

DESCRIPTION

The btmon(1) command provides access to the Bluetooth subsystem monitor infrastructure for reading HCI traces.

OPTIONS

-r FILE, --read FILE
    Read traces in btsnoop format from FILE.

-w FILE, --write FILE
    Save traces in btsnoop format to FILE.

-a FILE, --analyze FILE
    Analyze traces in btsnoop format from FILE. It displays the devices found in the FILE with its packets by type. If gnuplot is installed on the system it also attempts to plot packet latency graph.

-s SOCKET, --server SOCKET
    Start monitor server socket.

-p PRIORITY, --priority PRIORITY
    Show only priority or lower for user log.
    PRIORITY | NAME
    3 | Error
    4 | Warning
    6 | Information (Default)
    7 | Debug. debug can be used.

-i NUM, --index NUM
    Show only specified controller. hciNUM is also acceptable. This is useful to capture the traces from the specific controller when the multiple controllers are presented.

-d TTY, --tty TTY
    Read data from TTY.

-B SPEED, --rate SPEED
    Set TTY speed. The default SPEED is 115300

-V COMPID, --vendor COMPID
    Set the default company identifier. The COMPID is a unique number assigned by the Bluetooth SIG to a member company and can be found/searched from the Bluetooth SIG webpage.

    For example, Intel is 2 and Realtek is 93.

-M, --mgmt
    Open channel for mgmt events.

-K, --kernel
    Open kmsg for kernel messages.

-t, --time
    Show a time instead of time offset.

-T, --date
    Show a time and date information instead of time offset.

-S, --sco
    Dump SCO traffic in raw hex format.

-A, --a2dp
    Dump A2DP stream traffic in a raw hex format.

-E IP, --ellisys IP
    Send Ellisys HCI Injection.

-P, --no-pager
    Disable pager usage while reading the log file.

-J OPTIONS, --jlink OPTIONS
    Read data from RTT. Each options are comma(,) separated without spaces.
    OPTIONS | Description
    DEVICE | Required. Set the target device.
    SERIALNO | (Optional) Set the USB serial number. Default is 0.
    INTERFACE | (Optional) Target interface. Default is swd.
    SPEED | (Optional) Set target interface speed in kHz. Default is 1000.

-R OPTIONS, --rtt OPTIONS
    RTT control block parameters. Each options are comma(,) separated without spaces.
    OPTIONS | Description
    ADDRESS | (Optional) Address of RTT buffer. Default is 0x00
    AREA | (Optional) Size of range to search in RTT buffer. Default is 0
    NAME | (Optional) Buffer name. Default is btmonitor

-C WIDTH, --columns WIDTH
    Output width if not a terminal

-c MODE, --color MODE
    Set output color. The possible MODE values are: auto|always|never.

    Default value is auto

-v, --version
    Show version

-h, --help
    Show help options

EXAMPLES

  Capture the traces from hci0 to hcidump.log file

    $ btmon -i hci0 -w hcidump.log

  Open the trace file

    $ btmon -r hcidump.log

RESOURCES

 <http://www.bluez.org>

REPORTING BUGS

 <linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org>

AUTHOR
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>, Tedd Ho-Jeong An <tedd.an@intel.com>

COPYRIGHT
Free use of this software is granted under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licenses (LGPL).