Sticker Beacon - question

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Hello,

  • Can i do this with a “Sticker Beacon”:

A) When a sticker beacon has been moved (motion sensor)
B) Send https post to a custom RestAPI

  • Possible?
  • Need to trigger an event when a beacon is moved.

Thanks for help, advice,

Best regards,
Johan

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Sure thing! Just remember that the beacon itself has no Internet connection, so there needs to be some Internet-connected Bluetooth device that’ll detect the sticker and that it’s in motion (stickers broadcast that information over Bluetooth), and do the POST request. People usually use smartphones or Raspberry Pi-like devices for that.

What’s your project, if you don’t mind sharing? (:

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Hej Heypiotr,

  • Got a retail/environment project where they want to trigger events/when someone is touching / moving any of their products (in their store).

  • Except the RestAPI waiting for the trigger then this might be best?:

A) Use the bluetooth beacon in a rasberry pi
B) Scan Estiomte beacons
C) When a beacon has moved - trigger an Ajax request to a player

  • should work also?

Thanks,.

Best regards,
Johan

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Question:

  • Where does values for movement - being sent to?
  • Can i customize it so the beacon sends values to a custom RestApi?
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If you want display content on the screen using Raspberry Pi, maybe Estimote Mirror is a solution for you?
https://developer.estimote.com/mirror/


It can scan for beacons and stickers and invoke visual actions based on their movement. Since it is build around web browser it is possible to make Rest requests with it.
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Hello,

  • Can i use that device to like: When movement > play http://%server%/product-%name%.html? (a stream url)

  • Can i use a Rasberry pie to also detect movement?

Best regards,
Johan

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Yes you can. But better way will be to store content on the device itself and play it from local storage. This way you avoid problems with poor WiFi/internet quality. I would suggest the same approach for solution based on Raspberry Pi.
Yes, Raspberry Pi would also detect movement. Beacons/Stickers advertise this information to any device that scans for BLE packets.

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BLE%20Thought

Really cool - ordering stickers!!

Will be cool to test this!!

Also you can double check my - setup plan - all that should work correct?

Many thanks for help,

Best regards,
Johan

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One more question: do you have any good Linux / script / example i can look at?

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Like a Linux script …> scan for BLE… .

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There’s an example Node.js script to detect the signal from stickers here:

https://github.com/estimote/estimote-specs

It uses a Node.js “noble” library for Bluetooth scanning: https://github.com/noble/noble

Works just fine on Rasp Pi!

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Cool - will start testing with this!

  • Thanks!