oniongarlic / btlebeacon

BLE Eddystone URL Advertising, compact C implementation

A Linux Eddystone Beacon

A tiny Eddystone beacon for Linux, in pure C. It supports broadcasting of URL, UID and TLM Eddystone frames.

See https://github.com/google/eddystone/ for details about Eddystone.

Building

The only dependency at this time is bluetooth headers and library

Todo/Bugs/Features:

• NID and BID are used as strings, add support for hex input
• NID and BID defaults to 0123456789 ABCDEF
• UID can not be set
• Add AltBeacon
• Add iBeacon

Bluetooth LE requires root or capabilities set:

• Run "make setcap" to set capabilities flags on the binary so sudo/root is not needed

Usage:

• ./beacon url [NID BID]

Examples:

• ./beacon https://www.tal.org/
• ./beacon https://www.tal.org/ 0123456789 ABCDEF