Overview

Before running, edit /home/bt/store-config.json and make sure the top level has:

• name - the name of this receiver
• interface - the network interface that the server can reach this receiver (eg: wlan0)
• controller - the URL for the check-in (eg: http://192.168.0.4/ble/check-in)

Invoke the script startup-flask.sh from /etc/rc.local

Run manually with: FLASK_APP=hello.py flask run --host=0.0.0.0

send config data with: curl -X POST --data @config.json --header "Content-Type:application/json" http://localhost:5000/config

start: curl -X GET http://localhost:5000/start stop: curl -X GET http://localhost:5000/stop status: curl -X GET http://localhost:5000

To run temperature scanner:

python scan-temperature.py -m tcp://208.184.212.178:1883 -f 5 -p /ATI/Beacons/MB_Pi -d Temp

Notes about the Beacons:

Lotton beacon programmed with BeaconFlyer app Radius Networks beacon programmed with RadBeacon

All beacons have the URI set to: http://sdw.ati.com Namespaces are "69788673717376657884" - ASCII codes of ENVIGILANT

Beacon passwords: Lotton: 000000 Radius Networks: 0000-0000

Installation

sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper

add to .bashrc: export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs export PROJECT_HOME=$HOME/Devel source /usr/local/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh

mkvirtualenv bt sudo apt-get install libbluetooth-dev libcap2-bin sudo setcap 'cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin+eip' $(readlink -f $(which python)) pip install beacontools[scan] pip install Flask pip install pyyaml pip install netifaces pip install paho-mqtt

install SDW

BT-MQTT

Contains listener to MQTT for BLE beacon data