ping a phone's bluetooth address from ESP32 Thing Plus?

Wireless & IoT Bluetooth
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On Linux I can ping any known bluetooth MAC address with l2ping. I don’t need to have paired the Linux machine and phone for this to work. Is such a thing possible with a Thing Plus C?

I’m not finding much in the way of example sketches. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

-Matt

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I am not sure. But ESP-NOW protocol may help you to some extent:

https://randomnerdtutorials.com/esp-now … ion-esp32/

https://www.theengineeringprojects.com/ … p8266.html

This protocol allows you to establish a two-way communication between two ESP32 boards. No wifi or bluetooth communication is needed. It’s a wireless communication protocol.