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androidbluetoothrssi
user408075
user408075

Reputation:

Get RSSI From Devices Quickly On Android

So I’m pondering an application that would require gathering bluetooth RSSI information for any number of surrounding android devices quickly (< 1 second per device, preferably faster) and continuously. It could pair with the devices as long as that pairing doesn’t require any user interaction or previous interaction between the phones.

I don’t have any prior experience with bluetooth, just the reading I’ve done over the last couple of days; I’m looking for a little direction.

What are the options for this, if any? It looks like someone is doing something similar here with iOS and BLE. I could accept BLE as a limitation if that drastically simplifies things.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5666

Answers (1)

Gp2mv3
Gp2mv3

Reputation: 1451

You can collect the RSSI like that on Android during an inquiry:

BluetoothDevice device = intent.getParcelableExtra(BluetoothDevice.EXTRA_DEVICE);
short rssi = intent.getShortExtra(BluetoothDevice.EXTRA_RSSI, (short) 0);

But be carefull, some devices do not support reading the RSSI.

Upvotes: 2

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