Some experiments on the detection of iBeacons
Using 5 Kontakt beacons
Download and install the following App first
https://github.com/dave31415/BeaconScanner
That scans for iBeacons and logg them to a file
This repo requires tailer and Flask.
sudo pip install tailer
sudo pip install Flask
and numpy and matplotlib
Make a PARAMS file (which is in the .gitignore)
cp PARAMS_DEFAULT PARAMS
and edit that file as needed.
You may need to create a file 'api.key' if you are running the server on a remote machine such as on AWS. Also keep in .gitignore
Now, lets run the logger!
python logger.py
This will print out the url which is by default http://localhost:7979 Don't visit this url immediately.
This app will now be waiting for REST calls from the publisher and the BeaconScanner App will be logging data to your logfile. Now we will start the publisher which will "tail" that logfile annd send new data to the webapp which will store the data in SQLLite and make charts. Start this with
python publish.py
or specify the logfile and url specifically, e.g.
python publisher.py /path/to/log http://ec2.myserver.aws.com
This will connect the circuit. Wait a few seconds for some data to build up and then visit the url with your browser. You should see a webpage with a chart at the top and some information and a table of the data below.
