AltBeacon

Creating AltBeacon with Raspberry Pi using BlueZ Example Code (updated)

Posted on July 9, 2019 by max

This post shows steps to create an AltBeacon [1] with Raspberry Pi, by modifying BlueZ BLE Advertisement example code (i.e. “example-advertisement“). *If you want to create Apple’s iBeacon [2], please see this post. Prerequisites (parentheses indicate my environment) Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi4 B with Raspbian Buster 2019-06-20) Internet access To download BlueZ example code. Here… Continue reading “Creating AltBeacon with Raspberry Pi using BlueZ Example Code (updated)” →

Creating AltBeacon with Raspberry Pi using BlueZ Example Code

Posted on March 17, 2018 by max

Update (Jul 9, 2019): Step 1 is no longer required since Raspbian Buster (2019-06-20). Please check the updated steps in here. A previous post showed the steps to make an iBeacon transmitter with Raspberry Pi using BlueZ example code (i.e. “example-advertisement“). This post shows the steps for AltBeacon [1] in the same manner. Here are… Continue reading “Creating AltBeacon with Raspberry Pi using BlueZ Example Code” →