Small script to provision an iBeacon on the raspberry pi.

beacon.rb

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require "securerandom"

uuid = SecureRandom.uuid
uuid_hex = uuid.gsub("/", "")
uuid_hex = uuid_hex.scan(/../)
uuid_hex = uuid_hex.join(" ")

major = "00 00"
minor = "00 00"
power = "c9"
start = "0x08 0x0008 1e 02 01 1a 1a ff 4c 00 02 15" # Apple iBeacon preamble.
last = "00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00"

puts "Starting Beacon"

`sudo hciconfig hci0 up`
`sudo hciconfig hci0 noleadv`
`sudo hcitool -i hci0 cmd #{start} #{uuid_hex} #{major} #{minor} #{power} #{last}`
`sudo hciconfig hci0 leadv 0`

puts uuid
puts "Complete"