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Eddystone BLE beacon profile integration

Eddystone BLE beacon profile integration

Eddystone is Google's BLE beacon profile that can be used to identify groups of devices and individual devices.

Use the following syntax to configure a BLE profile that integrates Eddystone. Once you configure the BLE profile, you must then assign it to a FortiAP profile.

To configure BLE profiles for Eddystone - CLI:

config wireless-controller ble-profile

edit <name>

set comment <comment>

set advertising {ibeacon | eddystone-uid | eddystone-url}

set ibeacon-uuid <uuid>

set major-id <0 - 65535> - (default = 1000)

set minor-id <0 - 65535> - (default = 1000)

set eddystone-namespace <10-byte namespace>

set eddystone-instance <device id>

set eddystone-url <url>

set txpower <0 - 12> - (default = 0)

set beacon-interval <40 - 3500> - (default = 100)

set ble-scanning {enable | disable} - (default = disable)

next

end

Note that txpower determines the transmit power level on a scale of 0-12:

0: -21 dBm

1: -18 dBm

2: -15 dBm

3: -12 dBm

4: -9 dBm

5: -6 dBm

6: -3 dBm

7: 0 dBm

8: 1 dBm

9: 2 dBm

10: 3 dBm

11: 4 dBm

12: 5 dBm

Eddystone BLE beacon profile integration

Eddystone is Google's BLE beacon profile that can be used to identify groups of devices and individual devices.

Use the following syntax to configure a BLE profile that integrates Eddystone. Once you configure the BLE profile, you must then assign it to a FortiAP profile.

To configure BLE profiles for Eddystone - CLI:

config wireless-controller ble-profile

edit <name>

set comment <comment>

set advertising {ibeacon | eddystone-uid | eddystone-url}

set ibeacon-uuid <uuid>

set major-id <0 - 65535> - (default = 1000)

set minor-id <0 - 65535> - (default = 1000)

set eddystone-namespace <10-byte namespace>

set eddystone-instance <device id>

set eddystone-url <url>

set txpower <0 - 12> - (default = 0)

set beacon-interval <40 - 3500> - (default = 100)

set ble-scanning {enable | disable} - (default = disable)

next

end

Note that txpower determines the transmit power level on a scale of 0-12:

0: -21 dBm

1: -18 dBm

2: -15 dBm

3: -12 dBm

4: -9 dBm

5: -6 dBm

6: -3 dBm

7: 0 dBm

8: 1 dBm

9: 2 dBm

10: 3 dBm

11: 4 dBm

12: 5 dBm