What would it take to turn an Android mini PC and a Bluetooth dongle into an iBeacon?

When I connect the dongle to the Android mini PC it's obviously not going to be able to function as an iBeacon(and by iBeacon here I mean the actual hub that enables nearby devices to communicate) right away. What do I have to do to turn it into an iBeacon? Is there some library I can easily install? Or do I have to do something crazy like reverse engineer the "iBeacon protocol"?

Solution

Unfortunately, Android devices cannot act as iBeacons without heavy low-level modifications. See here.

The answer above is for Android phones, but the same obstacles apply to a mini PC. Connecting an external Bluetooth dongle is just the first challenge. You would then need to overcome these hurdles:

Root the device
Write and install a driver for the Bluetooth dongle
Install AOSP custom ROM to enable Peripheral mode support.
Write code to make the device send out the standard BLE iBeacon advertisement.

This is probably way more than you want to bite off!