{"id":2416,"date":"2018-04-25T09:03:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T09:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2416"},"modified":"2018-04-25T09:03:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T09:03:30","slug":"make-your-mac-advertise-ibeacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/make-your-mac-advertise-ibeacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Your Mac Advertise iBeacon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to experiment with beacons without buying one? There&#8217;s a new command line tool <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/watr\/mbeacon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mBeacon<\/a> that allows you to set up your Mac to advertise iBeacon.<\/p>\n<p>You use by typing the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>$ mbeacon -uuid \"XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX\" -major 0 -minor 0<\/pre>\n<p>The ability to easily change the UUID, major and minor is also useful for development purposes where you wish to test, for example, an app that&#8217;s looking for lots of different beacons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to experiment with beacons without buying one? There&#8217;s a new command line tool mBeacon that allows you to set up your Mac to advertise iBeacon. You use by typing the following command: $ mbeacon -uuid &#8220;XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX&#8221; -major 0 -minor 0 The ability to easily change the UUID, major and minor is also useful for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/make-your-mac-advertise-ibeacon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Make Your Mac Advertise iBeacon&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,193],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2417,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2416\/revisions\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}