How to get data from a bluetooth device that is not visible?

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Published on 2012-12-10T05:08:13Z Indexed on 2012/12/10 5:18 UTC
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I just bought a Fitbit One which includes Bluetooth 4.0 to sync with mobile devices. Currently libfitbit does not include support for bluetooth syncing, so I would like to see how much data I can get out of the device that I can pass onto the libfitbit devs so that they can explore bluetooth support.

I ran:

hcitool scan

which unfortunately did not return any devices. I also used blueman to scan for devices and nothing was found either.

Therefore I am assuming that the bluetooth radio in the device is not visible by default.

Can anyone recommend any ways to get data out of the device that could be helpful?

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