BTSnoop/Monitor protocol formats ******************************** Opcode definitions ================== New Index --------- Code: 0x0000 Parameters: Type (1 Octet Bus (1 Octet) BD_Addr (6 Octets) Name (8 Octets) This opcode indicates that a new controller instance with a given index was added. With some protocols, like the TTY-based one there is only a single supported controller, meaning the index is implicitly 0. Deleted Index ------------- Code: 0x0001 This opcode indicates that the controller with a specific index was removed. Command Packet -------------- Code: 0x0002 HCI command packet. Event Packet ------------ Code: 0x0003 HCI event packet. ACL TX Packet ------------- Code: 0x0004 Outgoing ACL packet. ACL RX Packet ------------- Code: 0x0005 Incoming ACL packet. SCO TX Packet -------------- Code: 0x0006 Outgoing SCO packet. SCO RX Packet ------------- Code: 0x0007 Incomnig SCO packet. Open Index ---------- Code: 0x0008 The HCI transport for the specified controller has been opened. Close Index ----------- Code: 0x0009 The HCI transport for the specified controller has been closed. Index Information ----------------- Code: 0x000a Parameters: BD_Addr (6 Octets) Manufacturer (2 Octets) Information about a specific controller. Vendor Diagnostics ------------------ Code: 0x000b Vendor diagnostic information. System Note ----------- Code: 0x000c System note. User Logging ------------ Code: 0x000d Parameters: Priority (1 Octet) Ident_Length (1 Octet) Ident (Ident_Length Octets) User logging information. TTY-based protocol ================== This section covers the protocol that can be parsed by btmon when passing it the --tty parameter. The protocol is little endian, packet based, and has the following header for each packet: struct tty_hdr { uint16_t data_len; uint16_t opcode; uint8_t flags; uint8_t hdr_len; uint8_t ext_hdr[0]; } __attribute__ ((packed)); The actual payload starts at ext_hdr + hdr_len and has the length of data_len - 4 - hdr_len. Each field of the header is defined as follows: data_len: This is the total length of the entire packet, excuding the data_len field itself. opcode: The BTSnoop opcode flags: Special flags for the packet. Currently no flags are defined. hdr_len: Length of the extended header. ext_hdr: This is a sequence of header extension fields formatted as: struct { uint8_t type; uint8_t value[length]; } The length of the value is dependent on the type. Currently the following types are defined: Type Length Meaning ---------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Command drops 1 byte Dropped HCI command packets 2 Event drops 1 byte Dropped HCI event packets 3 ACL TX drops 1 byte Dropped ACL TX packets 4 ACL RX drops 1 byte Dropped ACL RX packets 5 SCO TX drops 1 byte Dropped SCO TX packets 6 SCO RX drops 1 byte Dropped SCO RX packets 7 Other drops 1 byte Dropped other packets 8 32-bit timestamp 4 bytes Timestamp in 1/10th ms The drops fields indicate the number of packets that the implementation had to drop (e.g. due to lack of buffers) since the last reported drop count. The fields of the extended header must be sorted by increasing type. This is essential so that unknown types can be ignored and the parser can jump to processing the payload.