method to evaluate received power transmission from Bluetooth devices

[jmacion]

We are replacing an obsolete bluetooth SPP (bluetooth classic) module.
We would like to compare the received power from some of the new devices to the original device.
I would have thought there was a simple way to do this?

Matlab has a bluetooth toolbox that has a command BLElist that gives the RSSI for BLE (not SPP devices)
They have a pathloss function but they appears to be for just simulated data.

There has to be a simple way to use a laptop to compare the range of a few different Bluetooth devices?
Perhaps some type of shareware or a trick someone knows?


thank you in advance
Jim

 

[jmacion]

found a cell phone application.
all set, thanks

 

[bradrs]

When I tried it with a cell phone app, I got different readings each time I measured it. And other phones read a bit differently from mine. I don't have any other suggestion for how to do it, just that it wasn't as useful as I was hoping.