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Last active October 20, 2024 00:11
Use your Debian System as an iBeacon for Home Automation

Use your Debian System as an iBeacon for Home Automation

Introduction

I have been playing with using the https://Home-Assistant.io system at home to play with Home Automation.

One thing I've found is that the Raspberry Pi is perfect for quite a few of the monitoring things that I wanted it to do (see also https://github.com/JonTheNiceGuy/home-assistant-configs for more details of what I'm doing there!).

I'm using the http://OwnTracks.org application to talk to an MQTT server, but I could also do with it knowing where I am in the house, so I looked around for some details on iBeacons.

iBeacon is an Apple standard, but it's very easy to configure on Linux systems. I took some pointers from this article and wrote up this script. When I later went to deploy this on another system, I also needed a pointer from [this PDF](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/downloads/pdf/pibeacon-ib