{"id":8043,"date":"2022-10-28T08:01:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-28T08:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8043"},"modified":"2022-10-28T08:01:34","modified_gmt":"2022-10-28T08:01:34","slug":"creating-an-ibeacon-using-zephyr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/creating-an-ibeacon-using-zephyr\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating an iBeacon Using Zephyr"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There&#8217;s a new article at the Linux Foundation on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zephyrproject.org\/developing-bluetooth-low-energy-apps-with-ibeacon-ex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Developing Bluetooth Low Energy applications with Zephyr RTOS: Dissecting an iBeacon example<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article is more useful than it might first seem. Zephyr isn&#8217;t just another Linux operating system (OS) but is the chosen OS for developing Nordic Semiconductor&#8217;s latest system on a chip devices (SOCs) that form the basis of the majority of shipping Bluetooth beacons. Previously, Nordic Semiconductor had their own OS delivered through <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nordicsemi.com\/Products\/Development-software\/nrf5-sdk\" target=\"_blank\">nRF5 SDKs<\/a> but development is being moved to the Zephyr-based <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/developer.nordicsemi.com\/nRF_Connect_SDK\/doc\/latest\/nrf\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">nRF Connect SDK<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"548\" height=\"566\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/zephyr-ibeacon.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8044\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/zephyr-ibeacon.png 548w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/zephyr-ibeacon-290x300.png 290w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 548px) 85vw, 548px\" \/><figcaption>iBeacon advertising<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The iBeacon article explains how to broadcast an iBeacon advertisement and what to change to alter the various Bluetooth advertising parameters.<\/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>There&#8217;s a new article at the Linux Foundation on Developing Bluetooth Low Energy applications with Zephyr RTOS: Dissecting an iBeacon example. This article is more useful than it might first seem. Zephyr isn&#8217;t just another Linux operating system (OS) but is the chosen OS for developing Nordic Semiconductor&#8217;s latest system on a chip devices (SOCs) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/creating-an-ibeacon-using-zephyr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Creating an iBeacon Using Zephyr&#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":[41,308],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043"}],"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=8043"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8091,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8043\/revisions\/8091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}