Find a bluetooth device (triangulation?)

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I have “RC2” in my neighbourhood, but I don’t know what it is. I’m trying to locate it, but Is there an app that allows me to give relative signal strenght or distance, so i can find out what device this RC2 is? native or cli options is great, i find things related to hcitool, but hcitool seems not on the phone. can i find this info in /sys or /proc somewhere?

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devel-su
pkcon install bluez5-tools
hcitool  rssi foo

for a very basic approach.

Wild guess: headphones? Support für DJI RC 2 - DJI

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I’ve never seen that before, so maybe not… i’ll see if the hcitool works with rssi or if i need to connect to it somehow

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hcitool scan did not show anything, which is weird, cause the scan in the bluetooth settings does some some things… i don’t need to reboot here, don’t I? too bad the bluetooth settings interface doesn’t show the BSSID, that i could use with the hcitool rssi command :frowning:

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Could those be some devices seen before in other places?

Bluetooth documentation:

Without ‘Paired’, the list may have more devices (depending on previous device scans and error sitations). Consider removing some or all of them.

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I don’t have anything paired yet on this new C2 phone. i shouldn’t have to reboot for hcitool to work, right? and hcitool scan doesn’t give anything, but bluetooth settings find device does show these things (just not the bssid)

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i found out that “btmgmt find” works way better.

Ok, maybe i talked too soon, after a few commands, the bluetooth timed out, turned itself off while i was not using the phone and now, i cannot turn it back on again… i’ll have to reboot, probably