Making Pi as gateway to detect beacons Packets

[kaushik24psl]

Hi,

I have Raspberry pi board which i want to use it as a gateway .on which server will get set up.

nrf52840 will be the beacons which i have already set up for sending data strings and another nrf52 dk is used to detect this beacons whenever it comes in its range 

Now further this data from DK need to be detected by pi and posted server which is set up on pi. Questions i have is

1.I have pi 2 board on which there is no on board wifi chip nor bluethooth can i use this board

2.can i use pi zero which has both functionallity of wifi and ble.

3.and how to set up pi as gateway and fetch the beacons data on to server any references if possible.

thanks.

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi,

1. If you have the nRF52 DK connected to the Pi with a USB cable, it is possible to send the data over UART. If you want to send the data over Bluetooth, you will need a Bluetooth dongle connected to the Pi.
2. Same as above, but you will not need an additional Bluetooth dongle.
3. There are probably countless solutions to this. Without knowing anything about how the Pi receives the beacon data, and where you will send it, it is hard to give any advice on this. You may be better off by asking this question in a Linux/Raspberry Pi forum, as this is not specific to Nordic devices.

Best regards,
Jørgen