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How to make Ibeacon device can detect other devices

I've got several pieces of Ibeacon signal sender from online sellers(all small business, no brand), they're quite cheap and small, and can support configuration by my IPad mini, which include the 'device name', 'Proximity UUID', 'Broadcasting interval' and etc. Now it even works in my android phone: enter image description here

My question is: Is that possible to make these Ibeacon devices to detect other BLE4.0 devices around and send out the data? because as I understood, Ibeacon itself is a full BLE4.0 support device, seems like people removed some basic functions by some purpose.

My purpose is to embedded these ibeacon devices in my ARDUINO board, by connected their serial port, it works not only a Ibeacon sender, but also can detect other BLE4.0 devices around and send their advertising data to ARDUINO board to further process.

Solution

  • Radius Networks published a tutorial and howto on how to make a Raspberry Pi iBeacon transmitter also scan for other iBeacons and report their identifiers to the system to turn a lamp on and off. While this is on a different platform, it closely matches what you describe and probably has concepts helpful for an Arduino implementation.

    Full disclosure: I am Chief Engineer at Radius Networks.