Eddystone BLE beacon

RE: Eddystone BLE beacon

Alex Van Boxel — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 18:50:20 GMT

Aleksander, the mistake was mine. I had the version wrong of the TLM frame and the nRF MCP didn't recognise it due the error. I've corrected the error and pushed the update to GitHub.

RE: Eddystone BLE beacon

Marcio Montenegro — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 16:46:58 GMT

Thanks for sharing Aleksander. You can also test using google tools ? github.com/.../eddystone-validator github.com/.../ios-eddystone-scanner-sample

RE: Eddystone BLE beacon

Aleksander Nowakowski — Fri, 14 Aug 2015 08:18:08 GMT

Hi again, nRF MCP should also parse and display TLM packets. At least it has been implemented :) The thing may be that the beacon transmits one TLM packet every few seconds and it is not visible on the main screen (which is refreshed every second with the most current packet before the timer fires) but you could be able to press the MORE button and see all historical packets from the device. The TLM packet should be visible there. I hope that was the issue, not the implementation.

RE: Eddystone BLE beacon

Alex Van Boxel — Thu, 13 Aug 2015 20:38:47 GMT

I have a working implementation using version 9.0.0 of the nRF51 SDK (compiling with gcc and for the nRF51-DK board) at github. You can find it here:

github.com/.../eddystone_nrf5x_beacon

Like Aleksander Nowakowski mentioned the "nRF Master Control Panel for Android" does recognise the UID, URL and TLM frame. It was a great help for validating the beacon.

As mentioned, the code is provided as is, but could be a starting point. I'm going to order a nRF52 kit and see if I find some time to port it the the new chip.

RE: Eddystone BLE beacon

Aleksander Nowakowski — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 11:27:30 GMT

Hi, the new version of nRF Master Control Panel for Android (3.2.0) supports Eddystone beacon and AltBeacons advertisements. The app may help with developing beacons.

RE: Eddystone BLE beacon

RK — Wed, 15 Jul 2015 11:42:51 GMT

Looks trivial to implement - I looked at the spec this morning. Whether it takes off or not is the question. I don't see iOS supporting it in the same native background mode it does iBeacon so that's a hurdle right off the bat.