How to read accelerometer data from BLE beacon

Question

Hello, 
 I have one custom board which have Nordic's nrf52840 chip. I'm using this chip to scan the surrounding beacons. 
 For beacon scanning i have integrated Bluez stack on my custom board (From yocto build) and using following APIs/structures of Bluez stack for scanning. 
 1) print_advertising_devices 
 2) evt_le_meta_event 
 3) le_advertising_info 
 On nrf52840, i'm using zephyr based hci_uart application. So after creating hci interface i'm using above APIs for the beacon scanning and parsing bdaddress, name and rssi. 
 Now, I have one BLE beacon which is advertising accelerometer data x,y and z co-ordinates (Verified using nrfConnect application). 
 Q : Is there any APIs/structures available in Bluez stack which can help me to get/parse the accelerometer data broadcasted by beacons. 
 
 Thanks, 
 Mayank

mayank_patel · Accepted Answer

For someone who is exploring bluez and using nordic devices 
 I found the answer and it's " le_advertising_info" API of buez gives the raw data packets in bytes which is broadcasted by BLE beacons. 
 You can find data[] variable which contains raw data in hex values. 
 Parsing this raw data is a different thing altogether, but still i can get the raw bytes for which i have to write a data parser. 
 Thanks, 
 Mayank

awneil · Answer

mayank_patel said: Is there any APIs/structures available in Bluez 
 That's really a question for Bluez - nothing to do with Nordic! 
 http://www.bluez.org/contact/ 
 https://docs.ubuntu.com/core/en/stacks/bluetooth/bluez/docs/

How to read accelerometer data from BLE beacon

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