Hello, I’m looking to use a Raspberry Pi running the latest Raspbian Jessie operation system with Bluez 5.23. I’m trying to create a workshop for schools to interact with Eddystone BLE beacons. The workshop will show students the basics of reading the beacon data and then it will be up to the students to build applications from this using the Python programming language. The Raspberry Pi allows us to use them as the development platform and to run the final application also. Python is the chosen language as this is what schools seem to be using the most. The way that I’m currently doing the scanning for the beacon data is with this bash script: #!/bin/bash sudo hcitool lescan --duplicates 1>/dev/null & trap "sudo kill $!" EXIT sudo hcidump --raw The output is then be parsed with a Python library that would be what the students called to get the data. While I’m making some progress with the above shell script it doesn’t seem very elegant. It looks like there should be a better way using the D-Bus API. I’ve been looking in https://git.kernel.org/cgit/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/test?id=5.23 for inspiration but don’t seem to have anything that is showing me the beacon advertisement. Should I be able to get the Eddystone beacon payload using Python with the D-Bus API in Bluez 5.23? Is there a good tutorial/example that I could look at? Thanks in advance for any help or advice. Regards, Barry $ uname -a Linux raspberrypi 4.1.7+ #817 PREEMPT Sat Sep 19 15:25:36 BST 2015 armv6l GNU/Linux $ bluetoothd -v 5.23 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
