Simple node app to advertise a URL over BT4 using eddystone protocol

eddystone-url-beacon

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README.md

#Eddystone Beacon URL Advertiser

This app takes a url to advertise as a parameter

npm install
npm start http://google.com

This will cause a device with (Bluetooth 4, MBA 2011+, MBP 2012+) to act as an eddystone beacon

References

Proximity API

• Docs - https://developers.google.com/beacons/proximity/guides
• Authorising - https://developers.google.com/beacons/proximity/how-tos/authorizing
• Oauth playground - https://developers.google.com/oauthplayground
• Register - https://developers.google.com/beacons/proximity/register

NPM library for creating an eddystone beacon

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/eddystone-beacon
• https://github.com/don/node-eddystone-beacon

Specification for eddystone-url

• https://github.com/google/eddystone/tree/master/eddystone-url

Chrome iOS Install Chrome for iOS Install widget on notifications panel

package.json

{
  "name": "advertise-eddystone-url",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "server.js",
  "scripts": {},
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "eddystone-beacon": "^1.0.2"
  }
}

server.js

var eddystoneBeacon = require('eddystone-beacon');

var paramUrl = process.argv[2];
var url = paramUrl || 'http://storm.surge.sh';

eddystoneBeacon.advertiseUrl(url);

console.log('Advertising url: ' + url);