Overview

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This learning guide will show you how you can take your Raspberry Pi (or almost any Linux-based device with a bit of poking and prodding) and turn it into an Beacon node using our Bluetooth 4.0 USB Module and the open source Bluez stack.
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What You'll Need

  • A Raspberry Pi (any model should be OK)
  • A Bluetooth 4.0 USB Module (not every module works with Bluez, though ours definitely does!)
  • A iOS 7.0 based device (recent iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch) to test with
  • An iBeacon reader app from the App Store to test with (Try Locate Beacon, but any free iBeacon watcher ought to be OK!)

Acknowledgement

A big thanks to Tony Smith at The Register for putting together his tutorial on configuring Bluez to transmit Beacon data!
What is a 'Beacon'? 

This guide was first published on Dec 04, 2013. It was last updated on Dec 04, 2013.

This page (Overview) was last updated on Dec 02, 2013.

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