Sunday, June 10, 2018

How to Setup AppsFactory Beacons to Broadcast Ibeacon/EddyStone/TLM(Sensor Data)

AppsFactory Beacons Model A just arrived and has made me busy doing tests on each features that the beacons were design to have whether it really works. Doing the program was  not that easy and to see your design work as expected makes you happy.

One notable feature of the beacons is that it can be configured over the air using nRfConnect App for Android or IOS. And can be made to broadcast ibeacon, eddystone and sensor data at an alternating interval. the beacon is also capable of motion triggered broadcast but I haven't test this part yet.

BTW, the sensor data consists of acceleration and temperature data. I will this this part later.



I have designed the beacon to be configured at Bluetooth service 0xff70, and under this is characteristic 0x2a80. The possible values that can be enterered are the ff:
No advertisement: 0x01
iBeacon only: 0x02
Eddystone only:0x08
TLM only: 0x20
To broadcast all three frames : 0x02 + 0x08 + 0x20 = 0x2A

And here is the video:


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