Send Custom packets in Eddystone Mode

RE: Send Custom packets in Eddystone Mode

asmita_patil — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 11:49:54 GMT

is it possible to send a string to eddystone using TLM ..m new to it

RE: Send Custom packets in Eddystone Mode

Einar Thorsrud — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 08:11:06 GMT

I am unable to see how you can add accelerometer data in a Eddystone beacon without breaking the Eddystone specification.

RE: Send Custom packets in Eddystone Mode

amitpeshwani — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 09:48:13 GMT

Like i would to broadcast the user inactivity timeout based on the data from accelerometer , so how to add inactivity timeoout packet in eddystone ?

RE: Send Custom packets in Eddystone Mode

Einar Thorsrud — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 09:27:44 GMT

It depends on how you want to do it. You have to do it in a application specific way since it is not supported by the Eddystone specification. I do not see any good way of doing it, at least not if you want it to work out of the box with normal Eddystone clients (e.g. an Android phone with no custom app).

How do you intend to use this in practice? How will the clients/phones etc. read the accelerometer data? From my perspective the first question is how do you want this to be on air, and how will this be handled by the clients. Once you have decided that, then you can look into the implementation.

Regarding the implementation, it should be possible to update the advertisement packets more often than is done by the Eddystone example, inserting some other custom packets. I know for example that people have combined the Eddystone example and Beacon example (essentially an iBeacon). Unfortunately we do not have such an example, though.

RE: Send Custom packets in Eddystone Mode

amitpeshwani — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 09:00:41 GMT

Could you tell me , how to include accelerometer data into eddystone example

RE: Send Custom packets in Eddystone Mode

Einar Thorsrud — Tue, 07 Aug 2018 08:39:31 GMT

Hi,

As far as I know, there is no support for custom constantly changing (sensor) data in the Eddystone specification. The implementation in Nordic's SDK reflects the specification, and the only way to add or update data is via the Eddystone Configuration Service. Typically you use Google's Beacon Tools app for that. You could of course modify the Eddystone example to include the accelerometer data, but it may not be handled consistently across clients as it will be non-standard.