bluetooth-beacon-mqtt-exporter

This is a service running on node v8 publishing Bluetooth BLE beacons advertisements on a mqtt topic.

The original intent is to make available to node-RED temperature readings from Estimote beacons ; but this will work with any beacon advertisement supported by the node-beacon-scanner module.

Dependencies

sudo apt-get install bluetooth

and the bluetooth-beacon-mqtt-exporter command must be run as root.

Install

npm install bluetooth-beacon-mqtt-exporter

Run

sudo bluetooth-beacon-mqtt-exporter

Configuration

Configuration is provided throught environment variables:

MQTT_BROKER=mqtt://127.0.0.1   # url of a mqtt broker. For accepted protocols, refer to https://github.com/mqttjs/MQTT.js#connect
MQTT_TOPIC=beacon              # mqtt topic beacon' advertisements will be published to
MQTT_RECONNECT_DELAY=5000      # in case of a mqtt disconnection, will wait this amount of milliseconds before retrying to connect
LOG_PACKETS=no                 # yes/on/true/1 to log every advertisement package to the console

Hack

Install dependencies

sudo apt-get install bluetooth bluez libbluetooth-dev libudev-dev

Run the services

sudo service bluetooth start
sudo export MQTT_BROKER=mqtt://127.0.0.1 
sudoo export MQTT_TOPIC=beacon 
sudo npm run bluetooth-beacon-mqtt-exporter start