Trying to receive 'Scan Response' (4) advertising packets, no luck

[deepcoder]

I am testing your nice BLE utility code and I am trying to receive the advertising packet of event type 4, Scan Response. In testing with your example_ble_scan.py code, I only receive event type 0, 1, 2 and 3. None of the type 4 packets. Is there some way to enable reception of these packets in your code?

If I run the following two executables on the same machine (each running in a separate sudo process), I see the Scan Response packets and data in the hcidump output

sudo hcitool -i hci0 lescan

sudo hcidump -i hci0 hci

example output from hcidump:

HCI Event: LE Meta Event (0x3e) plen 33
LE Advertising Report
SCAN_RSP - Scan Response (4)
bdaddr FA:79:61:BC:CC:09 (Random)
Unknown type 0x16 with 19 bytes data
RSSI: -86
HCI Event: LE Meta Event (0x3e) plen 26
LE Advertising Report
ADV_IND - Connectable undirected advertising (0)
bdaddr F2:5C:4D:47:47:2F (Random)
Flags: 0x06
Shortened service classes: 0xfeaf
Complete local name: 'N07RZ'
RSSI: -83

Thanks in advance for any ideas!
Dave

[gled-rs]

Probably because enable_le_scan is passive.

You'll need to change the cmd_pkt = struct.pack("<BHHBB", SCAN_TYPE_PASSIVE, interval, window,own_bdaddr_type, filter_policy) replacing SCAN_TYPE_PASSIVE with a more appropriate value for active scan ?

0x01 Seems to do the trick here.