The Pi can now control the TOSLINK connected speakers.įrom there, things move pretty quickly. It’s certainly a tip worth mentally filing away for the future. We’ve seen plenty of people use Android’s integrated Bluetooth packet capture in the past, but never quite like this.

As he hit buttons in the Yamaha application, he could watch the data come in live. From there, a netcat command running on the virtual Android device continually sent the contents of the btsnoop_hci.log file out to Wireshark on his Linux desktop. To capture the communication between the soundbar and the application, first installed Android-x86 in a virtual machine on his computer and then enabled the “Bluetooth HCI snoop log” within Developer Settings. Or at least they were, before got on the case. Users who want to command their hardware with their computer, or any other Bluetooth device for that matter, are left out in the cold. Out of the box, the Yamaha YAS-207 soundbar can be remotely controlled over Bluetooth, but only when using a dedicated application on iOS or Android.

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