iBeacon¶

iBeacon is a protocol developed by Apple. The main purpose of Beacons (which are simply Bluetooth advertisers - not connectable) is for location-data and proximity marketing.

The MetaWear firmware supports the iBeacon format and can advertise itself as an iBeacon.

To enable iBeacon mode, all you need to do is call mbl_mw_ibeacon_enable and disconnect from the board.

The other functions in the ibeacon.h header file configure the advertisement parameters.

libmetawear.mbl_mw_ibeacon_set_minor(board, 7453);
libmetawear.mbl_mw_ibeacon_set_period(board, 15027);
libmetawear.mbl_mw_ibeacon_set_rx_power(board, -55);
libmetawear.mbl_mw_ibeacon_set_tx_power(board, -12);

bytes = uuid.UUID('{326a9006-85cb-9195-d9dd-464cfbbae75a}').bytes[::-1]
ad_uuid = cast(bytes, POINTER(c_ubyte * 16))

libmetawear.mbl_mw_ibeacon_set_uuid(board, ad_uuid.contents)

libmetawear.mbl_mw_ibeacon_enable(board);