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Programming a fleet of Beacons

What is the best way to go about mass programming a fleet of beacons all with unique UUIDs? Do you really have to program them one by one?

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  • If you want to have UUIDs really unique then yes. Alternatively you could hard-code some UUID "base" into the FW and the rest take from S/N stored in FICR area (which isn't guaranteed t be 100% unique but it's randomly generated 8-byte string and so far no one has spotted any collisions;) You can either place that string into part of 128-bit UUID directly or do some hashing/concealing before...

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  • If you want to have UUIDs really unique then yes. Alternatively you could hard-code some UUID "base" into the FW and the rest take from S/N stored in FICR area (which isn't guaranteed t be 100% unique but it's randomly generated 8-byte string and so far no one has spotted any collisions;) You can either place that string into part of 128-bit UUID directly or do some hashing/concealing before...

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