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Bluetooth: iBeacon

Overview

This simple application demonstrates the BLE Broadcaster role functionality by advertising an Apple iBeacon. The calibrated RSSI @ 1 meter distance can be set using an IBEACON_RSSI build variable (e.g. IBEACON_RSSI=0xb8 for -72 dBm RSSI @ 1 meter), or by manually editing the default value in the main.c file.

Because of the hard-coded values of iBeacon UUID, major, and minor, the application is not suitable for production use, but is quite convenient for quick demonstrations of iBeacon functionality.

Requirements

  • A board with BLE support

Building and Running

examples/bluetooth/iBeacon

compile, burn, and more, see get-started chapter 。

Running result

I/ibeacon         [0.002] Starting iBeacon Demo

I/bt_hci_core     [0.028] Identity: 28:6D:CE:01:02:03 (public)
I/bt_hci_core     [0.034] HCI: version 4.2 (0x08) revision 0x0709, manufacturer 0x070c
I/bt_hci_core     [0.040] LMP: version 4.2 (0x08) subver 0x0709
I/ibeacon         [0.046] Bluetooth initialized

I/ibeacon         [0.054] iBeacon started