AltBeacon program for embedded BLE. This program demonstrates how to set up a BLE device to broadcast AltBLE compatible data. Please see the official website for more details. https://github.com/AltBeacon/spec and http://altbeacon.org/

Dependencies:   BLE_API mbed nRF51822

Fork of BLE_AltBeacon by Austin Blackstone

Description

AltBeacon is an open beacon standard developed by Roving Networks. AltBeacons an alternative to the closed sourced and heavily licensed iBeacon standard.

For full details please see the AltBeacon repository

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+/* mbed Microcontroller Library
+ * Copyright (c) 2006-2013 ARM Limited
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#include "mbed.h"
+#include "AltBeaconService.h"
+
+/**
+ * For this demo application, populate the beacon advertisement payload
+ * with 2 AD structures: FLAG and MSD (manufacturer specific data).
+ *
+ * Reference:
+ *  Bluetooth Core Specification 4.0 (Vol. 3), Part C, Section 11, 18
+ */
+
+BLEDevice ble;
+
+/**
+ * The AltBeacon requires a manufacturer ID, and a Beacon ID
+ * the first 16 bytes of the BeaconID should be a UUID and the remaining
+ * 4 bytes can be used as you see fit.
+ *
+ * Note: please remember to calibrate your beacon
+ * RSSI for more accurate results.
+ */
+uint8_t beaconID[] = {  0x00,0x01,0x02,0x03,0x04,0x05,0x06,0x07,0x08,0x09,
+                        0x10,0x11,0x12,0x13,0x14,0x15,0x00,0x01,0x00,0x02 };
+uint16_t manufacturerID = 0x5900; //Nordic SIG ID
+int8_t rssi = -122;
+
+
+int main(void)
+{
+    // Initialize BLE baselayer
+    ble.init();
+
+    // Initialize AltBeacon
+    AltBeaconService altbeacon(ble, manufacturerID, beaconID, rssi);
+
+    // Set advertising time
+    ble.setAdvertisingInterval(160); /* 100ms; in multiples of 0.625ms. */
+    ble.startAdvertising();
+
+    while(1) {
+        ble.waitForEvent(); // allows or low power operation
+    }
+}