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Init script for iBeacon
#!/bin/sh
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: ibeacon
# Required-Start: $bluetooth
# Required-Stop:
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# X-Interactive: true
# Short-Description: Start/stop Bluetooth iBeacon
### END INIT INFO
# Init script for starting an iBeacon
#
# Thanks to http://developer.radiusnetworks.com/2013/10/09/how-to-make-an-ibeacon-out-of-a-raspberry-pi.html
#
# Author Gabriel Birke <gb@birke-software.de>
BLUETOOTH_DEVICE=hci0
UUID="62 0E 34 5D 69 62 43 8F 99 45 59 DD B4 83 0C 18"
MAJOR="00 00"
MINOR="00 00"
POWER="c9"
HCITOOL=/usr/local/bin/hcitool
HCICONFIG=/usr/local/bin/hciconfig
LOG=/dev/null
start() {
$HCICONFIG $BLUETOOTH_DEVICE up
$HCICONFIG $BLUETOOTH_DEVICE noleadv
$HCITOOL -i hci0 cmd 0x08 0x0008 1e 02 01 1a 1a ff 4c 00 02 15 $UUID $MAJOR $MINOR $POWER 00 > $LOG
$HCICONFIG $BLUETOOTH_DEVICE leadv 3
}
stop() {
$HCICONFIG $BLUETOOTH_DEVICE noleadv
$HCICONFIG $BLUETOOTH_DEVICE down
}
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart)
stop
start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
esac
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