First time with beacons.. need some help ;)

[budders84]

Hello! Just got a few NRF51822's.. looking to just brodcast a few basic URL's.. if someone can point me in the right direction or maybe let me know where I can hire someone to walk me through the process that would be great.. dont need any other special functionality.. whats the quickest/easiest way to get these setup? I come from a computer background, novice programmer etc etc.. I'd like to get these setup quick though..

[MANGO]

Hi, budders84.

looking to just brodcast a few basic URL's..

How about using the Eddystone Beacon?

Nordic has already prepared examples related to Eddystone Beacon.

Hope this will help.

/ Edited 2017.10.14 /

• development board: PCA10040 v1.1.0

• used ble_app_eddystone example from SDK14

• App: nRF Connect 4.14

• Phone: Samsung Galaxy 7 with Android 7.0

This example makes the nRF52 chip to advertise www.nordicsemi.com

-Best Regards, MANGO

[budders84]

Do the estimate beacons require much programming setup? Or basically just order, install the app and then change parameters? Just wanna be able to brodcast a link :)

[Sigurd]

Hi budders84,

What kind of NRF51822 boards do you have? If you program the nRF51 with the Eddystone example in the SDK, you can easily configure them using the nRF Beacon for Eddystone app.

Estimote beacons should have the same ability, but you can check with them here.

[budders84]

It's a "wellcore" ibeacon www.wellcoressd.com/.../89.jpg

[MANGO]

Hi, budders84.

I have read about the product specifications of Wellcore ibeacon.

In the document, it says that this uses nRF51822 and the iBeacon format (UUID / Major / Minor / RSSI).

Surprisingly, this beacon gives extra options such as device name, reset factory settings, password(?), and more.

If you have Nordic’s development kit, such as PCA10040 or PCA10028, apply the Nordic’s iBeacon example (SDK/examples/ble_peripheral/ble_app_beacon), please.

Check Nordic’s basic tutorial to flash the example code. It won’t take long to follow.

However, as described in the link, there is no automatic built-in method for an iBeacon to broadcast a website URL to users.

-Best regards, MANGO