Receiving UDP on different Android phones gives different results - android

I am willing to create a server and client program on my android mobile devices.
The devices communicate with each other on the same wifi network, therefore, some simple scanning mechanism must be implemented - The client phones search for a server phone through some kind of broadcast.
What I did:
My protocol - the client phone broadcasts a message port p on the wifi, the server listens on port p. when the server gets the broadcast message it sends a message back, therefore discovering itself to the client.
My code -
I have opened a broadcast socket on my app, it sends a broadcast message.
Meanwhile there is a python script on my PC that listens and replies - I use python so that my testing will be easier - Wireshark on the PC and I can see everything.
What happens:
When I use one of my Galaxy S phones - it works and I get a response.
When I use the other Galaxy S phone - it doesn't work.
Now this is what I know:
The phone that works actually has Nexus ROM on it Ver. 4.1.1
The phone that doesn't work has 2.3.3 regular galaxy ROM
The python code says it receives both of the broadcasts sent from both phones, and replies to both of them without raising any exception.
So far I was thought the problem may be
1. the older version'd phone.
2. the windows firewall
3. the router firewall
So I have opened Wireshark, and Indeed I saw that both phones are sending their broadcasts - it was logged on Wireshark.
But the python script only responded to the first one.
So this is why 1 & 3 are irrelevant - if the router firewall was blocking my UDP I would have still seen the python server response, same with the older versioned phone.
To get rid of 2 i just disabled the windows firewall - still same problem.
Does anyone has a clue to why this effect might happen?
Thanks!
Edit
My python code:
def scan(data, addr, sock):
print "received scan message:", data, addr
name = u"name".encode("utf-16-le")
data = "DISC" + short2bytes(len(name)) + name
print "sending back %s to %s" % (data, addr)
sock.sendto(data, addr)
if __name__ == "__main__":
sock = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM)
sock.bind(('', UDP_PORT))
while 1:
data, addr = sock.recvfrom(1500)
print "received packet " + data
if data.startswith("SCAN"):
scan(data, addr, sock)
edit 2:
Okay! Seems like my code and protocol DID work.
As it turns out the 2.3.3 phone had some severe ARP problems.
After some resets it works flawlessly!

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Bluetooth SPP profile on SIM800H

I'm having issues when trying to use bluetooth on my project. On previous version I used the HC-05 module for bluetooth and it gives me a simple serial connection right after any device connects. Now the project evolved and we opted on using SIM800H because it gives us GSM+Bluetooth.
When I connect any android device it gives me some profiles but never SPP. I can pair normally but when using any SPP server app (https://stackoverflow.com/a/4037619/2637661) I can never send or get data from my device. If I start the connection from the Android app, it says that it's connecting while the SIM800 gives me the URC and I respond:
+BTCONNECTING: "34:c7:31:aa:37:5b","SPP"
AT+BTACPT=1
OK
+BTCONNECT: 1,"Android",34:c7:31:aa:37:5b,"SPP"
But it stays on server mode and I can't use the commands AT+BTSPPSEND or AT+BTSPPGET, as the documentation says.
On the other hand, if I start the connection from my device just like the docs say:
AT+BTCONNECT=1,4 // Device is 1 and SPP profile is 4
OK
AT+BTSPPSEND
>I type anything here + ctrl+z
SEND FAIL
and get nothing on the Android side.
Plus in both cases the connection drops after something like 30s and I can't reestablish it unless I turn the SIM800H off and on again.
Got no success using the APP mode either (sending the string "SIMCOMSPPFORAPP" right after connection succeeds for transparent communication).
The SIM800H firmware version is
AT+CGMR
Revision:1309B07SIM800H32_BT
and I tried using the following apps
Bluetooth Terminal
Bluetooth spp pro
BlueSPP
The GSM side works flawlessly and I can send/receive TCP messages everytime I try.
Does anyone have any kind of experience using this module? Thanks for reading!
UPDATE:
I'm using a simple sketch in order to talk with the module's serial, don't know if it's relevant but here it goes.
#define SIM800_POWER 23
void setup() {
Serial.begin(9600);
Serial1.begin(19200);
Serial.print("Setting all up");
pinMode(SIM800_POWER, OUTPUT);
Serial.print(".");
delay(500);
digitalWrite(SIM800_POWER, HIGH);
Serial.print(".");
Serial.println("OK");
}
void loop() {
if(Serial1.available()){
Serial.write(Serial1.read());
}
if(Serial.available()){
Serial1.write(Serial.read());
}
}
And what I get after trying Andrii's answer:
Setting all up..OK
AT
OK
AT
OK
AT
OK
AT+BTPOWER=0
OK
AT+BTPOWER=1
OK
AT+BTCONNECT=1,4
OK
+BTCONNECT: 1,"Will",d4:87:d8:77:37:0b,"SPP"
AT+BTSTATUS?
+BTSTATUS: 5
P: 1,"Will",d4:87:d8:77:37:0b
C: 1,"Will",d4:87:d8:77:37:0b,"SPP"
OK
AT+BTSPPSEND
> SIMCOMSPPFORAPP
SEND FAIL
Seems AT+BTSPPSEND without any parameters is only for AT-command send from client (your SIM800H) to server (other SIM800, not your Android device unless your Android device implements AT-command support). For data sending you should use AT+BTSPPSEND and after receiving > symbol send SIMCOMSPPFORAPP keyword and then, after receiving SEND OK response send command AT+BTSPPSEND=<LENGTH_OF_YOUR_DATA> and then, after receiving > symbol, send your data until Ctrl+Z code e.g.:
AT+BTSPPSEND
> SIMCOMSPPFORAPP
SEND OK
AT+BTSPPSEND=5
> HELLO
SEND OK
^Z
where HELLO - is your data, and 5 in AT+BTSPPSEND=5 is length of HELLO string. Details in SIM800H_BT_Application_Note.
UPDATE
Selected by bold small, but important part of answer (thanks to hlovdal)

Python Bluetooth how to send a file to a phone

in my current project it is a requirement to send a file from a windows computer to an android device over bluetooth without anything on the phone other than it's standard state and of course a paired bluetooth connection. i've looked over pybluez and it seemed simple enough to send files between a client and server architecture (and in fact got it sending between my laptop and desktop rather quickly) but I cannot for the life of me find any way to get python to send a file from the computer to android once the connection is established; my attempts have been grabbing the bluetooth mac address like thing from the device like so
nearby_devices = bluetooth.discover_devices(
duration=8, lookup_names=True, flush_cache=True, lookup_class=False)
and then later trying to send the files like so
port = 1
for addr, name in nearby_devices:
bd_addr = addr
sock=bluetooth.BluetoothSocket( bluetooth.RFCOMM )
sock.connect((bd_addr, port))
sock.send("download-app")
sock.close()
Of course with the example script given by the pybluez documentation I can seamlessly send files between a client and a server but I am still stuck without a way to send a file to the selected android device (even if I specify it's address and know it's within range)
You're most of the way there...
As you know, you need something to talk to at the other end of your Bluetooth connection. You just need to replace your custom server with a well-known service (generally one of these options).
In my case, my phone supports the "OBEX Object Push" service, so I just need to connect to that and use a suitable client to talk the right protocol. Fortunately, the combination of PyOBEX and PyBluez does the trick here!
The following code (quickly patched together from PyOBEX and PyBluez samples) runs on my Windows 10, Python 2.7 installation and creates a simple text file on the phone.
from bluetooth import *
from PyOBEX.client import Client
import sys
addr = sys.argv[1]
print("Searching for OBEX service on %s" % addr)
service_matches = find_service(name=b'OBEX Object Push\x00', address = addr )
if len(service_matches) == 0:
print("Couldn't find the service.")
sys.exit(0)
first_match = service_matches[0]
port = first_match["port"]
name = first_match["name"]
host = first_match["host"]
print("Connecting to \"%s\" on %s" % (name, host))
client = Client(host, port)
client.connect()
client.put("test.txt", "Hello world\n")
client.disconnect()
Looks like PyOBEX is a pretty minimal package, though, and isn't Python 3 compatible, so you may have a little porting to do if that's a requirement.
I haven't personally explored it but check out this blog -
http://recolog.blogspot.com/2013/07/transferring-files-via-bluetooth-using.html
The author uses the lightblue package as an API for the Obex protocol and send files over the connection. Now the lightblue package appears to be unmaintained. There are other packages like PyObex (which I could not import for whatever reason) which you could also explore as alternatives but lightblue seems to be the way to go.
I have made a Python 3 port of PyOBEX based on the PyOBEX code on bitbucket. I've tested so far only the client functionalities, but I expect the server to be working fine as well, since most of the compatibility issues with Python 3 were due to struct.pack/struct.unpack binary blobs appended to strings that should have all been tackled.

Send AT-command through bluetooth with python

I try to send AT commands from my computer (ubuntu 13.04) to my phone (Android 5.1) via bluetooth. I want to read the SMS.
I retrieve the MAC address of my phone with :
hcitool scan
I browse all available services on the device with :
sdptool browse XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
I get the good RFCOMM channel for SMS/MMS service and now I'm trying to send the AT command.
I tried with pySerial with a bound and connected rfcomm to my phone but no response :
import serial
phone = serial.Serial('/dev/rfcomm0', 115200, timeout=2)
phone.write(b'AT\r')
data = phone.readall()
print data
I tried the same code on a USB serial port and I have a response :
import serial
phone = serial.Serial('/dev/ttyACM0', 115200, timeout=2)
phone.write(b'AT\r')
data = phone.readall()
print data
# *EMRDY: 1
# AT
# OK
I tried with pyBluez but same problem, no response of my AT command :
import bluetooth
client_sock = bluetooth.BluetoothSocket( bluetooth.RFCOMM )
client_sock.connect(('XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX', 4))
client_sock.send(b'AT\r')
data = client_sock.recv(1024)
print "received [%s]" % data
And I finally tried with native python sockets, but no response :
import socket
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_BLUETOOTH, socket.SOCK_STREAM, socket.BTPROTO_RFCOMM)
s.connect(('XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX',4))
s.send(b'AT\r')
data = s.recv(1024)
s.close()
print('Received', repr(data))
Note: The phone displays a prompt window to accept that my computer accesses my sms. Of course I accepted.
Can anyone tell me what is wrong and what I can try?
Well, for starter it is better to check first that you have a two-way communication between your Host computer and your Phone on bluetooth, like you said, it did work with USB, then there should be no reason it does not with bluetooth unless you didn't yet established a good communication, so I think it is better to try first that you have good communication by just sending and replying with the same string (kinda hand-shaking protocol) and make sure that you know what your python code is actually sending, may be unseen extra characters using bluetooth that you don't pay attention to, which makes your AT command unrecognizable by your phone.

Android MulticastSocket.joinGroup doesn't trigger sending IGMP message

Code:
MulticastSocket s = new MulticastSocket();
InetAddress addr = InetAddress.getByName("230.230.230.1");
s.joinGroup(addr);
//...
On Ubuntu 14.04, when I run it, I can see IGMPv2 "Membership Report group 230.230.230.1" message out. But on Android, no such packet is seen.
Such packet is a must to notify router about IGMP membership when user calls joinGroup (or setsockopt in C), right?
It would appear that many devices are shipped without support for multicast built into the kernel. Open an adb shell and do
cat /proc/net/igmp
If it's not there, the kernel has been built without CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST. You're basically SOL without rooting your device and/or flashing custom firmware.
This is a sad state of affairs.

Bluecove on PC cannot detect connected android (galaxy tab 7.0)

I use this code
luugiathuy.com/2011/02/android-java-bluetooth/
The server side is the PC
the client is the device, with the app based on bluetooth chat example
The device (galaxy tab 7.0) can establish connection with the PC.
However the PC server (written in java and bluecove) did nothing, as nothing is connected.
The loop for trying to find connected device is
while(true) {
try {
System.out.println("waiting for connection...");
connection = notifier.acceptAndOpen();
Thread processThread = new Thread(new ProcessConnectionThread(connection));
processThread.start();
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return;
}
Output on PC:
uuid: 0000110100001000800000805f9b34fb
waiting for connection...
EDIT: source downloadhttps://github.com/luugiathuy/Remote-Bluetooth-Android
Same issue I got when I was trying in linux. But the reason (still not sure) when you run the bluetooth android application without turning on the Java server using bluecove, It will try to connect with the already installed bluetooth software. You may see the bluetooth icon asking for granting access to the mobile device.
To solve this, I just changed the uuid in the server and application (say from 1103 to 1101 and vice versa) and then started the server first and then the android application. Java server part started listening.
The reason I think may be the uuid when it did not found the bluecove stack service server, it got connected to the device server listening on same uuid. So after changing the uuid and making sure that the server is running before launching the android application should solve the issue.
If you are getting connected to the bluetooth system application and not to the Java bluecove server,
1) First change the uuid both server and android application.
2) Second make sure your server is running and listening on same uuid.
3) Launch the android application which try to communicate on same rfcomm connection uuid.
Server part code I took from : http://www.jsr82.com/jsr-82-sample-spp-server-and-client/
Library : http://code.google.com/p/bluecove/downloads/list
Yes, it happens with me too, I suggest you to fire following commend on shell, when it shows waiting for connection.
hcitool cc 58:C3:8B:D7:FA:F4
here 58:C3:8B:D7:FA:F4 is my device's bluetooth address, which should be replaced by your device's bluetooth address.
To get your device's bluetooth address, just start bluetooth in your device with discoverable mode and execute hcitool scan command, it will display all the active device with their name and bluetooth address.
Well you may run the above hcitool cc 58:C3:8B:D7:FA:F4 command via Java code as follows,
try
{
Process p=Runtime.getRuntime().exec("hcitool cc 58:C3:8B:D7:FA:F4");
}
catch ( Exception e )
{
}
The output from your program says it listens on UUID 0x1101. Is that true? The sample you reference shows it listening on a different UUID. Its Service Class Id is 0x04c6093b and is set as follows:
34 UUID uuid = new UUID(80087355); // "04c6093b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb"
35 String url = "btspp://localhost:" + uuid.toString() + ";name=RemoteBluetooth";
36 notifier = (StreamConnectionNotifier)Connector.open(url);
The two need to match on client and server.

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