method to read the received power or RSSI of Bluetooth SPP device

The bluetooth toolbox has commands for getting the RSSI for bluetooth low energy systems (BLE). An example of this is shown below.

blelist

ans =

34×5 table

Index Name Address RSSI Advertisement

_____ ____ ______________ ____ _____________

1 "" "34AF54DD60BC" -52 1×1 struct

2 "" "5DFAAE3FF03C" -63 1×1 struct

However, we are using SPP (bluetooth classic) bluetooth device which is really the predessor to the BLE.

It woudl be great to be able to read the RSSI for SPP devices the same way the BLElist command does.

There is a pathloss function

cfgRange = bluetoothRangeConfig(Mode="BR",TransmitterPower=10,ReceiverSensitivity=-72)

[pl,rxPower] = pathLoss(cfgRange)

pl =

64.5000

rxPower =

-57

But this appears to be just simulated?

There has to be a simple way to read the range of recieved power of a SPP bluetooth classic device? I would assume we really just need to know the recieved signal level and could go from there.

Is it possible another application, such as simple shareware could do this?

thanks

Answer 1

[James Macione]

found a cell phone application that does it

bluetooth power meter.

all set