UBERTOOTH-SCAN(1)

💖 UBERTOOTH-SCAN 💖

okay bestie, welcome to ubertooth-scan, section 1 of the User Commands girlies. sit down, grab a strawberry matcha, because we're about to scan some Bluetooth and it's gonna be iconic. 🦋✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ubertooth-scan — scan frequency band, do active (Bluez) device scan and inquiry, all supported by Ubertooth. no cap, that's the whole vibe. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ubertooth-scan [-s] [-x]

just two little flags, she's lowkey simple, she's highkey powerful. 🎀

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so basically, this tool uses a normal Bluetooth dongle to run Inquiry Scans and Extended Inquiry scans on Bluetooth devices. and then — plot twist — it also uses Ubertooth to discover devices that are literally trying to be undiscoverable. 🙈 like, hiding? not on her watch.

and if you want, it can use BlueZ to scan for the discoverable devices too. so you've got both energies: the sneaky Ubertooth one and the polite BlueZ one. main character has range. 💜

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🧚 EXAMPLES 🧚

Use Ubertooth to discover devices and perform Inquiry Scan with BlueZ:

ubertooth-scan

Use BlueZ and Ubertooth to discover devices and perform Inquiry Scan and Extended Inquiry Scan:

ubertooth-scan -s -x

see? told you. -s and -x are the girlboss duo. 🔥

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -s — hci Scan. uses BlueZ to scan for discoverable devices. the sociable one. 🫶
• -x — eXtended scan. retrieves additional information about the target devices. it's giving nosy in the best way. 👀
• -t <seconds> — scan Time. how long you wanna sniff packets for. [Default: 20s] ⏳
• -e <0-4> — Maximum Access Code Errors (default: 2) 💀
• -b hciN — Bluetooth device (default: hci0) 🔵
• -U<0-7> — which Ubertooth device to use ✨

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🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

• ubertooth-rx(1): discover devices passively with Ubertooth. yes, passively. she's just observing. 💅
• ubertooth(7): overview of Project Ubertooth 🌈

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

this manual page was written by Mike Ryan. thank you king, we love a documentation moment. 🫶

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📜 COPYRIGHT 📜

ubertooth-scan(1) is Copyright (c) 2010-2017. This tool is released under the GPLv2. Refer to COPYING for further details. slay, legally. ⚖️✨

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ngl bestie, go point that Ubertooth at something and see what pops up. no notes. 😭💜

Project Ubertooth March 2017 — mwah, version and date included, kissing u goodbye, see u in the next manpage, bye babes 🎀💅🦋