uri-beacon

uri-beacon is deprecated, use eddystone-beacon as a replacement

eddystone-beacon NPM

eddystone-beacon Github

Bluetooth URI Beacon for Physical Web

Requires NodeJS and Linux

Install the dependencies

npm install

Run tests

npm test

Create a beacon

$ sudo node
> uriBeacon = require ('./uri-beacon')
> uriBeacon.advertise('http://example.com')

Create a beacon and specify the txPowerLevel in dBm

$ sudo node
> uriBeacon = require ('./uri-beacon')
> uriBeacon.advertise('http://example.com', { txPowerLevel: -22 })

See the examples

• simpleBeacon - easiest way to create a URI Beacon
• powerLevel - create a URI Beacon specifying txPowerLevel
• blenoBeacon - manually create a URI Beacon using bleno
• flexibleBeacon - use library to encode URI, manually handle advertising data

This only runs on Linux. You need to run as sudo. See bleno for more info.

Have an older machine or Raspberry Pi? Add a Bluetooth 4.0 USB Adapter.