PiBeacon-Ansible

I needed to set up an iBeacon for a project I'm working on so I followed the Radius Networks guide to setting up a Raspberry Pi with a Bluetooth LE USB dongle. I've wrapped the process in an Ansible playbook because I may need to create a few more beacons and I didn't want to have to repeat this process on each one.

To run the playbook you'll need to follow a few steps

• Make sure you are running SSHD on the Raspberry Pi - this is included in the graphical installer
• Add your SSH key to the pi user's ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2 file

$ cat .ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh pi@<your raspberry pi> "cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

• Then run the playbook against the selected inventory

$ ansible-playbook -i inventory/dev 

It takes quite a long time for the process to complete but once it does you should be able to stop and start the beacon using;

# /etc/init.d/ibeacon stop/start