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POWhat is the iBeacon Bluetooth Profile
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copied!<p>I'd like to create my own iBeacon with some bluetooth low energy dev kits. Apple has yet to release a specification for iBeacons, however a few hardware developers have reverse Engineered the iBeacon from the AirLocate Sample code and started selling iBeacon dev kits. </p> <p><strong>So what is the iBeacon Bluetooth Profile?</strong></p> <p>Bluetooth Low Energy uses GATT for LE profile service discovery. So I think we need to know the Attribute Handle, Attribute Type, Attribute Value, and maybe the Attribute Permissions of the iBeacon attribute. So for an iBeacon with a UUID of E2C56DB5-DFFB-48D2-B060-D0F5A71096E0 a major value of 1 and a minor value of 1 what would the Bluetooth GATT profile service be?</p> <p>Heres some assumptions I've made from the discussion on Apple's forums and through the docs.</p> <ol> <li><p>You only need to see the profile service (GATT) of a Bluetooth peripheral to know it is an iBeacon.</p></li> <li><p>The Major and Minor keys are encoded somewhere in this profile service</p></li> </ol> <p>Heres some companies with iBeacon Dev Kits that seem to have this figure out already:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://redbearlab.com/ibeacon/">http://redbearlab.com/ibeacon/</a></li> <li><a href="http://kontakt.io/">http://kontakt.io/</a></li> </ul> <p>Hopefully in time we will have a profile posted on Bluetooth.org like these: <a href="https://www.bluetooth.org/en-us/specification/adopted-specifications">https://www.bluetooth.org/en-us/specification/adopted-specifications</a></p>

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