eddystone | Specification for Eddystone, an open beacon format from Google
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Eddystone is a protocol specification that defines a Bluetooth low energy (BLE) message format for proximity beacon messages. It describes several different frame types that may be used individually or in combinations to create beacons that can be used for a variety of applications. Announced in April 2016, Eddystone-EID (Ephemeral ID) is a new frame type that defines a cryptographically secure method of configuring a beacon to broadcast information that only authorized people may decrypt. It includes support for a secure transmission of the TLM (Telemetry) information.
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QUESTION
I have following code. What I am trying to do is parse BLE service data to get EddyStone Namespace
and InstanceID
. is parse byte data into a string.
ANSWER
Answered 2022-Mar-09 at 12:44From the comments, it seems that you're asking for a hexadecimal representations for sequences of bytes.
Note that strings you expected in your comments for the "namespace" and "instance" IDs seem wrong. It looks like you just converted the first 16 bytes of your List
, but since your original List
is 20 bytes, it seems like it's supposed to be the entire 20-byte Service Data Block.
From the specification you linked to in your comments, the "namespace" ID starts at offset 2 and is 10 bytes long. The "instance" ID starts at offset 12 and is 6 bytes long. Therefore, you must first extract those subsequences. Once you have the desired sublist, you can use int.toRadixString
to convert each byte to a hexadecimal string, use String.padLeft
to force using two hexadecimal digits, and then use List.join
to combine them all into a single String
:
QUESTION
I am currently working with a sensor that uses an Eddystone beacon to send 31 byte data packets to a Core Bluetooth iPhone app acting as a central that breaks apart and processes the received packet. The central is set up as scannable and non-connectable. I would like to send a turn sensor on/off signal from the central to the beacon, but I am not sure how to proceed given that Core Bluetooth uses different protocols than Eddystone. Potential solutions I have considered are:
- Create button in app that toggle connectable setting to connect with beacon. Write condition in sensor beacon code to turn off power once connection established. Potentially implement the converse by keeping the sensor in a deep sleep mode that is exited once a connection is re-established.
- Essentially make a request from the central to write to the Eddystone equivalent of a characteristic on the peripheral sensor side.
The problem is, I am not sure how to match up Core Bluetooth and Eddystone in such a way that I create a properly formatted 31 byte packet from the iPhone central that can be sent to, picked up, and then read by the peripheral to toggle it's power on/off state. How can I approach this problem, if it is at all possible? If it is not possible, what are some workarounds for Core Bluetooth scanner to Eddystone beacon peripheral communication?
...ANSWER
Answered 2022-Jan-30 at 11:25According to Eddystone documentation, Eddystone is a protocol specification that defines a Bluetooth low energy (BLE) message format for proximity beacon messages (data from your sensor) and farther specifies a Configuration GATT Service that allow to make some configurations.
In BLE terms, the Eddystone sensor is a peripheral that should expose the Eddystone Configuration GATT Service and advertise data according to the Eddystone format.
In order to use the Eddystone Configuration GATT Service you have to establish a BLE connection from central (your IPhone) and the peripheral (your sensor) and to write the parameters in the characteristics.
According to documentation of Eddystone Configuration GATT Service, to stop the advertisement write an empty array, or a single 0x00 in the charatecistic with UUID a3c8750a-8ed3-4bdf-8a39-a01bebede295
.
This is possible if your sensor exposes this service.
QUESTION
I have data as a JSON format
...ANSWER
Answered 2021-Nov-23 at 09:53arr1
is an Array it doesn't have beacons
property. If you expect it to be the only one item with the mac you should use data.find
instead of data.filter
. Also do not use for-in
loop to iterate over arrays. You can use for-of
or .forEach
instead.
QUESTION
I know asking this question here is not proper, I feel sorry for that.
I have tried searching websites, Amazon and Alibaba, but fail to find any product can support Eddystone-EID.
So, I think developers in stack overflow may know any product can support Eddystone-EID.
Could you share any any information for that?
...ANSWER
Answered 2021-Oct-09 at 19:05The two vendors below claim to sell beacons compatible with Eddystone-EID as of October 2021:
Before you buy anything beware that Google shut down their beacon platform web services in April 2021. I wrote a full blog post to explain what this means: Eddystone is Dead, Long Live Eddystone!
Using these web services is completely optional for Eddystone-UID and Eddystone-URL, but critical for Eddystone-EID, because the beacon identifier rotates with a crypto algorithm and a “trusted resolver” server is needed to convert the advertised “ephemeral identifier” from jibberish to something meaningful and useful.
Without Google’s beacon platform web services, I am aware of no commercially available trusted resolver for Eddystone-EID. You would need to build your own, which is a non-trivial effort. Without a trusted resolver Eddystone-EID is worthless.
Because of this, make sure the vendors above still support using their products with Eddystone-EID. In time, it is likely they will remove support in their beacon firmware.
Finally, it is important to note that just because Google gave up on their beacon web services, most apps that use Eddystone, iBeacon and Altbeacon are unaffected. Beacons are standardized and will work forever — just don’t use Google web services! Again, beacon technology aside from Eddystone-EID has no need for Google web services.
QUESTION
I want to extract the temperature from a BLE beacon using the ESP32 chip. I have used the following code to do this:
...ANSWER
Answered 2021-Jul-07 at 17:41I looked at the library you linked to and it had the following for temperature:
QUESTION
I am developing a broadcasting app using Eddystone. The question here is, as far as I know, there is no beacon broadcasting (TLM) API on the mobile web (in a browser such as Chrome). To make sure, I want to make sure that there is no such technology. Thank you.
...ANSWER
Answered 2021-Jun-08 at 15:38The only platform that allows you to do this is the Chrome Browser on Chrome OS. On that platform, users can optionally enable BLE advertising in a browser setting, then apps can programmatically configure BLE advertising including for beacons like Eddystone. The folks at Radius networks put together a JavaScript Beacon Library to help you do this.
For all other platforms the answer is no, you cannot advertise BLE using a web browser. This answer applies to all other browsers on all other operating systems.
It is worth mentioning that Google sponsors the Web Bluetooth initiative to bring BLE support to browsers. However, it is designed to support only the BLE central role (not the peripheral role needed to advertise). And even Web Bluetooth's central support is very limited -- it doesn't support general BLE scanning for beacons (it only supports scanning for BLE services for connection purposes.) Further still, Web Bluetooth is not supported at all by Apple Safari on either iOS or MacOS, and Apple has said it does not plan to support it in the future.
Bottom line, if you want to work with beacons in the web browser, you are largely out of luck. The one exception is that you can advertise on ChromeOS.
QUESTION
I am try to write a parser for BLE Eddystone UID packet, but don't know how exactly to do it. I am using Beacon Simulator App to broadcast a Eddystone UID Packet, and when I tested with different mobile using same app as scanner I can see that Eddystone UID packet broadcasted by 1st Device.
I want to write a sample app to scan for Eddystone UID packets.
I know I have to use BluetoothLeScanner
and in onScanResult
of ScanCallback
I can get all the Bluetooth devices compatible with BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy).
But the problem is I am able to extract device mac, device name from ScanResult
and can validate that I am able to hear my bluetooth headset and speaker but I am not sure how exactly I will get namespace
and instance
of the Eddystone UID and I am not able to see any such variable in ScanResult
which will help me.
Can anyone please point me to any snippet or any code regarding how to do it. I don't want to use any third party library for scanning, simple plain in Kotlin or in java. Kotlin is preferred but java is also fine, I am aware of both language.
...ANSWER
Answered 2021-May-10 at 11:49Eddystone UID: A unique, static ID with a 10-byte Namespace component and a 6-byte Instance component.
In onScanResult
you can extract Eddystone uid packet like below
QUESTION
Is there any Flutter package available that can listen for Eddystone UID beacons and Eddystone-URLs?
I have been looking at various packages such as beacons_plugin and flutter_beacon but I cannot seem to find any package that can receive these beacon broadcasts.
Has anyone been able to achieve this? If so, how?
Thank's @ukBaz - I am now seeing the Eddystone data. However i am trying to get the namespace id and instance data from the device.
I am using a Minew D15N BLE beacon and printing out the data..
...ANSWER
Answered 2021-Apr-24 at 07:03Those packages look like they are just for iBeacon which uses manufacturer data in the advertising packet. For Eddystone it uses service data. The flutter_blue library give you access to the service data. https://pub.dev/documentation/flutter_blue/latest/flutter_blue/AdvertisementData-class.html
The following answer shows how to scan and access the advertising data with flutter_blue: https://stackoverflow.com/a/63591662/7721752
QUESTION
The problem consist of detecting the IBeacon and Eddystone Frames, when I have the Eddystone I have to use specific function and the same for the IBeacon. I am using Java in Android Studio so the function who deliver me the IBeacon result is getManufatureSpecificData() and for the Eddystone is getServiceData(). The question is why there is different function to have the result? and how can I check if the received frame is Eddystone or IBeacon?
The snippet of code
...ANSWER
Answered 2021-Feb-08 at 14:22There are two variants of Bluetooth LE advertisements defined by the Bluetooth SIG standards body:
- GATT Service Advertisements - these are designed to advertise GATT Services and may have service data bytes, which are designed to tell you something about the advertised service.
- Manufacturer Advertisements - these are designed for any purpose that the Bluetooth device manufacturer wishes to use. They always include manufacturer data of 0-24 bytes.
When Apple designed the iBeacon format, it chose to use manufacturer advertisements. As a result, whenever you detect them you must get the manufacturer data to decode the contents.
When Google designed Eddystone, it chose not to use manufacturer advertisements and instead use GATT Service advertisments. It made this choice because it wanted he format to work well on iOS devices, and iOS generally refuses to let 3rd party apps detect manufacturer advertisements (other than iBeacon) in the background.
Because of this design decision by Google, you must check to see if there is service data when attempting to decode Eddystone advertisements.
If you want to detect both beacon types, use logic like this:
- Is there attached service data? If no, go to step 3.
- Can the service data be decoded as Eddystone? If yes, we are done.
- Is the advert a manufacturer advert? If no, go to step 5.
- Can the manufacturer data be decoded at iOS, if yes, we are done.
- The advertisement is neither Eddystone nor iBeacon.
QUESTION
EDIT: Code changed to provide a simpler test case
I'm creating a simple client/server application that uses Curve25519 for key exchange. The client is implemented in C with mbedtls and the server is implemented in .NET with BouncyCastle.
Unfortunately, the generated shared secret is not the same on the client and on the server. Below is shown an excerpt of the code that generates the public/private keys (I hardcoded some value to easy the debugging).
Client Keys Generation (mbedtls code, mostly copied from https://github.com/ARMmbed/mbedtls/blob/development/programs/pkey/ecdh_curve25519.c and https://github.com/google/eddystone/blob/bb8738d7ddac0ddd3dfa70e594d011a0475e763d/implementations/mbed/source/EIDFrame.cpp#L144)
...ANSWER
Answered 2021-Jan-04 at 20:33Curve25519 represents keys in little-endian order. X25519 (ECDH with Curve25519) represents the shared secret in little-endian order. This is unlike most standard formats used in cryptography, in particular keys on SECP/NIST and Brainpool curves and the shared secret from ECDH with Weierstrass curves, which represent numbers in big-endian numbers. So change both calls to mbedtls_mpi_write_binary
to mbedtls_mpi_write_binary_le
.
Alternatively, use mbedtls_ecp_point_write_binary
to export the public key and mbedtls_ecdh_calc_secret
to calculate the shared secret: they take care of formatting the numbers with the correct endianness for each curve.
I haven't verified that this is the only problem.
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