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Can a Bluetooth tag (iOS and Android) send a push notification without the device being connected to the internet?

I have several Bluetooth tags, model "Onyx Beacon One". They can be controlled via the company's CMS. I can also switch them between Eddystone UID&URL and iBeacon. I can simply place two of them ...
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Devices wth Support for BLE Services 'Location and Speed' and 'Heartrate'

I need a BLE test device that supports at least Location and Navigation (0x2A67) 1 Heart Rate (0x180D) and optionally Health Thermometer (0x1809) Can anyone recommend one? Edit: I'm not looking '...
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ESP32 transmit data over BLE VS Wifi

I am working on a project where I have got an ESP32 device (Wifi & Bluetooth), which reads data from some sensors, such as temperature and soil moisture (outdoor environment). The data is then ...
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How to send data from BLE MCU to the Windows?

I have one nRF based 52840 device, which I am using to send the data by using BLE technology, my laptop has windows 10 and Bluetooth 4.0, which can detect the BLE but it cannot even connect to it. I ...
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How to take data from multiple BLE devices into a central device simultaneously?

Firstly, I am very beginner in BLE domain. I have very little knowledge about it. I have Adafruit Feather 32u4 Bluefruit LE module. I want to do a project where multiple BLE peripheral devices ...
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BLE advertising packet formation using nordic stack

I am working on A BLE beacon application to advertise data. I am using nordic nrf52 Development kit and nordic sdk s132. I am starting from the beacon exapmle provided by nordic. My question is how is ...
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CRC-24 calculation method validation

I am working on a BLE Beacon application and to generate the packet to be advertised I need to calculate a 24-bits CRC value out of the BLE header, source access and the payload. In the official ...
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AWS Greengrass Raspberry Pi scanning for Bluetooth LE

I have a AWS Greengrass setup where I would like to have a Raspberry Pi constantly scanning for BLE devices and if anything is found publish a message via MQTT. I've gotten the script to work locally ...
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ESP32 & Bluetooth

I'm currently looking into how to set up a sense network made from ESP32s to track BLE tokens in an area, but I'm stuck at the first step... Getting Bluetooth & device listing to work on the ESP32,...
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Integrating STM32 device with smart lock via BLE

I am using a Particle Boron to integrate with a Smart lock but I am not being able to do it. I'm using Particle's BLE interface to connect to Bluetooth and start sending messages to the lock, and a ...
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How to connect Raspberry PI 3 Model B to BLE Motion Sensor

I'm trying to connect my PIR motion sensor using gatttool and is giving me this error: pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo gatttool -t random -b B8:7C6F:1A:D8:24 -I [B8:7C6F:1A:D8:24][LE]> connect Attempting ...
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Push notifications to Mi Band 3

How can I push notifications to my Mi Band 3 without notifications showing up on my phone? It could be code, or could be an app for Windows or Android. I'm planning on writing an app using custom ...
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How Different is a Car's Bluetooth from phone Bluetooth

I'm developing an application which makes use of a car's Bluetooth but I need to identify if a certain Bluetooth device is a car's Bluetooth. Is there a way to differentiate between Bluetooth devices ...
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How do I detect button presses from a ble device?

I've been working on an app in flutter that connects to a ble device and responds to button presses from the device. I've tried various packages and frameworks and none works. I decided to try nrf ...
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How to advertize BLE custom data in Linux

I'm learning BLE and slightly got stuck with advertisements. I'm trying to advertise custom data representing an iBeacon with the commands below: bluetoothctl menu advertise manufacturer 0x4C 0x00 ...
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Why a requested/sniffed BLE characteristic handle mismatch on Linux?

I'm learning BLE and trying to sniff packets just to understand how communication happens. I do this with Wireshark on Linux and sniff traffic between the Linux machine and a BLE-powered wristband. I ...
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Can you reconfigure advertising packet during advertising BLE on ESP32

I'm trying to make a simple environmental sensing module on the ESP32 with ESP-IDF. I want to use BLE with gap only. I'm thinking of sending all the received data with the Advertising packets but ...
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Choosing BLE beacons and gateways

I don’t get what is the difference between different beacons. For example, the Meeblue M52-SA costs 10 USD, approximately, and the Estimote Proximity beacon costs 25 USD. Both use Bluetooth 5, their ...
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What is the difference between a GATT Unit and a GATT Characteristic?

I am setting up an Arduino to collect temperature and pressure data, and I want to broadcast that data via bluetooth. My question boils down to what allocated UUID is best for my characteristic, and I ...
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NINA B1 firmware update from 3.0.1.1 to 4.0.0

I try to update many time with no success. I am having error in loading the NINA-B11X-BOOT3.0.1.zip using UART. Any of you found a solution?
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