{"id":7867,"date":"2022-08-31T08:03:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T08:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7867"},"modified":"2022-08-31T08:03:20","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T08:03:20","slug":"making-an-ibeacon-using-esp32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/making-an-ibeacon-using-esp32\/","title":{"rendered":"Making an iBeacon Using ESP32"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Circuit Digest has a new tutorial <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/circuitdigest.com\/microcontroller-projects\/esp32-based-bluetooth-ibeacon\" target=\"_blank\">ESP32 based Bluetooth iBeacon<\/a>. ESP32 is a small single board computer that can easily be programmed to do different tasks. Many ESP32 boards include Bluetooth so it&#8217;s possible to program them to be an iBeacon.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ESP32Bluetoothibeacon.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7868\" width=\"563\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ESP32Bluetoothibeacon.jpg 750w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/ESP32Bluetoothibeacon-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 563px) 85vw, 563px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The article first explains how to detect beacons on Android using nRF Connect. This is similar to our post <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/testing-if-a-beacon-is-working\" target=\"_blank\">Testing if a Beacon is Working<\/a>. There&#8217;s also a useful table that explains the different ranges for received signal strength (RSSI):<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"622\" height=\"649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/rssiranges.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7869\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/rssiranges.png 622w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/rssiranges-288x300.png 288w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Creating your own beacons means you can customise the advertising and do other IoT-related things at the same. The downside is bare ESP32 boards aren&#8217;t as physically robust, easy to configure nor power friendly as a dedicated beacon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/ibeacon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View iBeacons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circuit Digest has a new tutorial ESP32 based Bluetooth iBeacon. ESP32 is a small single board computer that can easily be programmed to do different tasks. Many ESP32 boards include Bluetooth so it&#8217;s possible to program them to be an iBeacon. The article first explains how to detect beacons on Android using nRF Connect. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/making-an-ibeacon-using-esp32\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making an iBeacon Using ESP32&#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":[246,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867"}],"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=7867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7870,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7867\/revisions\/7870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}