Android AltBeacon library: how to find the beacon layout?

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Caten picture Caten · Sep 11, 2015 · Viewed 8.3k times · Source

I'm testing with a new type of beacon, and this is what I got from the debug:

onScanResult() - ScanResult{mDevice=20:73:2A:09:3E:41, mScanRecord=ScanRecord [mAdvertiseFlags=26, mServiceUuids=null, mManufacturerSpecificData={76=[2, 21, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 85, 0, 5, 0, 10, -40]}, mServiceData={}, mTxPowerLevel=-2147483648, mDeviceName=null], mRssi=-55, mTimestampNanos=23541956038874}

After playing around with many beacon layout in SO, I still can't detect it for my app. From the debug above, how to find out the beacon parser. Is there a "universal" beacon layout for all types of beacons? Locate Beacon apps can detect my beacon. Any body knows the pattern?

Thanks.

Answer

Weber picture Weber · Nov 23, 2015

Here is a list of the main beacon layouts -

ALTBEACON   "m:2-3=beac,i:4-19,i:20-21,i:22-23,p:24-24,d:25-25"

EDDYSTONE  TLM  "x,s:0-1=feaa,m:2-2=20,d:3-3,d:4-5,d:6-7,d:8-11,d:12-15"

EDDYSTONE  UID  "s:0-1=feaa,m:2-2=00,p:3-3:-41,i:4-13,i:14-19"

EDDYSTONE  URL  "s:0-1=feaa,m:2-2=10,p:3-3:-41,i:4-20v"

IBEACON  "m:2-3=0215,i:4-19,i:20-21,i:22-23,p:24-24"

A reference list here.

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