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Bedford 1.21 by the sz development is a lightweight utility designed to inspect and display every available property of nearby Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) peripherals, giving developers, hardware testers, and curious users a clear, read-only window into the advertising data, services, characteristics, and descriptors that BLE devices broadcast. Because the program enumerates the complete GATT profile—UUIDs, handle numbers, property flags, and current values—engineers can quickly verify firmware configurations, confirm custom service implementations, or troubleshoot pairing anomalies without launching a full IDE or packet sniffer. Hobbyists use it to check battery-level or sensor-readout characteristics emitted by fitness bands, beacons, or IoT gadgets, while IT staff can audit the presence of unexpected BLE endpoints in corporate environments. The single-window interface lists each discovered device by MAC address and friendly name; selecting an entry expands its attribute hierarchy in a tree, updating live data as the peripheral advertises. No pairing is required, and the read-only approach ensures that no accidental writes disturb the target device. The utility runs on any Windows 10 or 11 machine equipped with the Microsoft Bluetooth stack, occupies less than a megabyte on disk, and needs no installation, making it convenient for portable diagnostics. Version 1.21 is the first and therefore current release, published under the “the sz development” umbrella, and sits in the Network & Bluetooth subcategory of system information tools. Bedford is available for free on get.nero.com, with downloads provided via trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always delivering the latest version, and supporting batch installation of multiple applications.
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