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CATC MERLIN MOBILE 1.00 CHAPTER 5

User’s Manual Recording Bluetooth Traffic

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Passive Sync & Record is designed to be used with established piconets or private device

networks.

Passive Sync & Record with an Established Piconet

The following steps describe how to set up a Piconet Recording session using the Passive

Sync & Record method for an established piconet:

Step 1 Open the Recording Options dialog, select the Modes tab, and make sure that

Piconet Recording is selected in the Recording Mode section.

If Piconet Recording wasn't already selected, the options on the Modes tab

will change so that you can configure the piconet recording parameters.

Step 2 Select Sync & Record from the Sync Method drop-down list.

Step 3 Enter the address of the intended master device in the Master Address combo

box.

If you used Bluetooth Neighborhood or an Inquiry Recording to discover the

device addresses, you may select the address or device name alias from the

Master Address drop-down list. You may also switch the addresses in the

Master address and Page Target lists by pressing the swap button.

Step 4 Enter a fake address for Merlin Mobile in the Page Target combo box. Make

sure it's different than the address for any other local device. Merlin Mobile

uses this address to recognize the master device when it sends a page.

Step 5 If necessary, configure the remaining Piconet Recording options (for more

information, please see “Piconet Recording Mode Options” on page 37).

Step 6 Select Record > Start from the menu bar or press the record button on

the standard toolbar.

When Merlin Mobile is ready to synchronize with the piconet, the analyzer

state portion of the Recording Status display reads “Syncing...”

Step 7 Direct the master device to initiate a page to the Page Target address. When

Merlin Mobile receives the page, it extracts the information that it needs in

order to synchronize with the piconet and capture the Bluetooth traffic.

The analyzer state message in the Recording Status display will change to

“Act:”, indicating that Merlin Mobile is fully synchronized to the piconet and

is recording traffic.

Merlin Mobile records piconet traffic data and then uploads it as a Trace file when the

recording session is complete.

To stop the recording before the recording session is complete, select Record > Stop from

the menu bar, press the Stop button on the standard toolbar, or press the Escape (Esc) key

on the keyboard. Merlin Mobile will stop recording and will upload the data that was

recorded before the recording was interrupted.