Can i beacon kit be updated to emit different message?

[timtim]

Hello beacon fellows,

with regards to maintenance, i am looking into the possibilities to avoid human presence when updating the message to be emitted by Beacon Kit.

Any suggestions on how to block Over the Air updates and perform software based update triggered by server in the cloud?

Thanks,
Tim

[Rune Holmgren]

Hi,

Am I correct in understanding that you are working with the nRF51822 Bluetooth Smart Beacon Kit?

To get connected to the cloud you need to have a way of translating your traffic to IP and a way of getting that traffic onto the internet. The nRF5x IOT SDK is the correct place to start looking. Version 0.8 of this SDK is compatible with the nRF51, so that is probably the best starting point. In addition to one or more nRF5 based devices, you will also need a router capable of communication with Bluetooth low energy while also being connected to the internet. This router can either be a commercially available product or, for the purpose of development, a Raspberry PI as explained in the IOT SDK documentation.

The IP communication portion of this project will be a lot more complex than the beacon portion, so my recommendation is to start from the IOT SDK, do the changes necessary to run on the beacon kit (basically moving button and LED config, the IC is the same), and then finally adding the beacon capability to the working IOT implementation.

Best regards,
Rune Holmgren