Red Bear B-B1 Bluetooth BLE Beacon User Manual

Red Bear Company Limited Bluetooth BLE Beacon

User Manual

Beacon B1 Instruction
Overview
Congratulations on your New Beacon
device. To develop basic understandings and
get the most out of your purchase, be sure
to carefully read this manual and keep it on
hand for future reference.
Features:
-Bluetooth SIG Qualied product
-Apple’s iBeacon compatible
-Support Android 4.3 or later
-Security password setting
-Over-the-Air Firmware Upgradable
-Congurable to suit your Apps
-No Overhype
-Long battery life with 2pcs AAA battery
OFF / ON
Switch
Hanging hole
Mode button
LED
Specication:
Standard Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy
Chipset & Stack Texas Instruments’s CC254x SoC and BLE Stack
Antenna Type Multilayer Chip Antenna
Physical Range Up to 50 meters (Depends on enviornment)
Power Supply Two triple-A (3A/AAA) batteries
Current Consumption (average) 0.25mA
Battery Life 4500+ hours;over 1year (operating 12hours/ day)
Dimension (W)25mm x (H)70mm x (D)18.3mm
Net Weight 15gram
How to maintenance B1
1) Download our open sourced Sample Conguration App
http://www.redbear.net/support.html
2) Compile & Run the App on iOS device, it will show
“Searching for B1 in range”.
3) Switch ON the Beacon: Green light turns on. (now in
broadcasting mode)
by default the green LED is ON. It will broadcast iBeacon
signal periodically.
4) Press mode button: Red light turns on. (now in maintenance
mode)
5) App found B1, you can modify Beacon characteristics:
(See picture at right)
Tip: Adjust the value of iBeacon
signal “Measured Power” to aid
iOS determining more accurate
distance estimation, check out our
support page.
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Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance
could void the user's authority to operate the equipment
Beacon B1 Instruction
Bluetooth Services
Under maintenance mode, there are four Bluetooth Low Energy services available.
RedBear Beacon Service UUID: B0702980-A295-A8AB-F734-031A98A512DE
Device Information Service UUID: 180A
There are two characteristics you should pay attention to.
1. UUID: 2A28, Software Revision String
- this represents the software revision for the Beacon software within B1, the latest version is “20131128”
2. UUID: 38837046-FE96-4335-B751-D4826198F337, Device Name String
- you can rename the broadcasting device name of your B1
Battery Service UUID: 180F
- showing the remain battery life as a percentage
- please noted that the Red LED light on B1 will keep ashing when battery level fall to 30% or below
Firmware Upgrade Service UUID: E6775403-F0DD-40C4-87DB-95E755738AD1
- reserved for Over-The-Air rmware upgrade
RedBear Beacon Service
Under RedBear Beacon Service, there are seven Bluetooth Low Energy characteristics.
1. iBeacon UUID UUID: 0xB0702881-A295-A8AB-F734-031A98A512DE
- a unique 16-bytes value in HEX for advertising
2. iBeacon Major identity ID UUID: 0xB0702882-A295-A8AB-F734-031A98A512DE
- a 2-bytes value, ranging from 0 to 65535 (0xFFFF)
3. iBeacon Minor identity ID UUID: 0xB0702883-A295-A8AB-F734-031A98A512DE
- a 2-bytes value, ranging from 0 to 65535 (0xFFFF)
4. iBeacon Measured Power UUID: 0xB0702884-A295-A8AB-F734-031A98A512DE
- a 1-byte signed value, ranging from -100 to 0
- This is an average RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indication) of the beacon measured at approximately one meter
from an iOS device. This is a reference value in order for iOS to determine the distance between an iOS device and
a beacon.
- Please refer to Apple’s AirLocate sample about how to obtain Measured Power for your iBeacon
5. LED Switch UUID: 0xB0702885-A295-A8AB-F734-031A98A512DE
- a 1-byte value used to control the on-board green LED, either OFF (0x00) or ON (0x01)
- default is ON
6. iBeacon Advertising Interval UUID: 0xB0702886-A295-A8AB-F734-031A98A512DE
- a 2-bytes value, ranging from 100ms (0x0064) to 10000ms (0x2710) on a incremental of 5ms unit
- default is 250ms
- the time between each iBeacon signal broadcasted; shorter time will have better response time and accuracy, however
this will increase the power consumption due to more broadcasting in the same period of time.
7. iBeacon Output Power UUID: 0xB0702887-A295-A8AB-F734-031A98A512DE
- a 1-byte value, four available settings: -23dBm (0x00), -6dBm (0x01), 0dBm (0x02) or 4dBm (0x03)
- default is 0dBm (*our beacon is optimized to run at 0dBm.)
- the output power setting of the Texas Instruments CC254x IC; higher power should mean longer range and higher
power consumption.
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