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skullkar
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« on: December 23, 2014, 11:27:05 23:27 »

Hi

I would like to create an iBeacon stack, I know it is BLE and has a format that can be discovered with a bluetooth sniffer.
Does anyone want to join in this project?

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Posted on: December 19, 2014, 06:02:07 18:02 - Automerged

I found a book that had the data content for the ibeacon packet

http://my.safaribooksonline.com/9781491904800/_ibeacon_advertising_packet_contents_html#figure-protocol-frame
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« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2015, 01:15:13 01:15 »

I am working toward implementing iBeacon on the CC2541, a dev board and JTAG can be obtained from TI for about $90. The project is on hold at the moment, but I will update progress as I make it here. It looks very promising, much of the source code for the demo is available for free from TI.
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« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2015, 02:31:00 14:31 »

I took the lazy way out and chose to run my AltBeacons on Raspberry Pis with USB BLE dongles, but that means each beacon costs about $50. Fine for now as I only need a couple, but I'd definitely be interested in contributing to a project capable of publishing arbitrary beacon packets.
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« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2015, 07:07:16 19:07 »

Can you recommend some USB BLE dongles..? I want to buy one pair.
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« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2015, 01:56:37 13:56 »

Can you recommend some USB BLE dongles..? I want to buy one pair.

you can one buy a Texas Instruments CC2541 based i-beacon. Pricing starts from 8 USD in China.
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« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2015, 08:00:21 20:00 »

I used a cheap Asus dongle. I forget which one it was, but it was under $10 shipped.
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« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2015, 09:20:59 21:20 »

I've been pretty happy with RedBearLab's BLE hardware.  I've been using their BLE Mini implementation for many projects recently, which also has it's own iBeacon firmware available.  They also have purpose-built iBeacon hardware available: http://redbearlab.com/ibeacon

Their support is better than most and it seems to be reasonably popular within the Arduino community so there is a reasonable amount of experience with it available out there on the forums.

Personally, I've enjoyed working with their BLE Mini hardware the most as their open-source "Biscuit" firmware has been fairly straight-forward to modify and compile.
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