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