LinkIt 7697 BLE iBeacon

How to use BLE to emulate iBeacon on LinkIt 7697 HDK

Additinal resource can be found at https://docs.labs.mediatek.com/resource/mt7687-mt7697

- Note. 
- Linkit 7697 HDK is only supported by LinkIt SDK 4.3 and later version. 
- There might be compile error to use them on older version.

Folder Structure

• project/linkit7697_hdk/apps/ble_ibeacon: LinkIt SDK project files.

How to Build

Device Side

• Put/Extract the files into SDK root, so that there is [SDK_root]/project/linkit7697_hdk/apps/ble_ibeacon
• Execute ./build.sh linkit7697_hdk ble_ibeacon under Linux enviornment
• Check generated bin at [SDK_root]/out/linkit7697_hdk/ble_ibeacon/ble_ibeacon.bin
• Use Flashtool to download [SDK_root]/out/linkit7697_hdk/ble_ibeacon/flash_download.ini into LinkIt 7697 HDK

Mobile Side

• Install any beacon app (ex. Locate Beacon app)

How to Run

Phases

• Turn on Device, when it is ready, it will start "BLE Advertising"

Mobile Side

Device Side

Below are log output from UART port of LinkIt 7697 HDK

Message Sequence Chart