Hey ardupeoples! 
I have a project where I need to search for the names of bluetooth devices around me.. do you think I can do this with an arduino? All I need is to read names of other devices, I don't actually need to communicate with them.
I have been searching the web and the arduino.cc site for this and I couldn't find anything like this and thought maybe here someone knew how to do it..
Thanks a lot!
Paulo
With the arduino BT, you can do that by sending the string INQUIRY 5 NAME to the bluetooth chip repeatedly. With another arduino, purchase a bluetooth radio that will interface with it. For the arduino BT, the following applies. (Check the IWRAP3 docs available for more information on the Arduino BT wiki page..)
The Arduino BT Bluetooth radio should respond with something similar to:
INQUIRY 3
INQUIRY 00:10:c6:3a:d8:b7 72010c
INQUIRY 00:10:c6:62:bb:9b 1e010c
INQUIRY 00:14:a4:8b:76:9e 72010c
NAME 00:10:c6:3a:d8:b7 "MyPhone"
NAME 00:10:c6:62:bb:9b "MyComputer"
NAME 00:14:a4:8b:76:9e "MyMousie"
which means there are 3 devices (from the line INQUIRY 3) and the names of the devices are "MyPhone", "MyComputer" and "MyMousie" (the last NAME lines)
I haven't any code yet to try that - I am away from my BT and arduino at the moment..
Hi Spinlock
Thank you very much!
I think I'm going for the external bluetooth radio for budget reasons and I'll look into which one accepts these commands..
Cheers!