Bluetooth proximity sensor

[riochicken]

Re: Bluetooth Proximity Sensor

Hi all,

Is there a way (I know there are a couple of posts out there but none of them seem to be the answer) to create a bluetooth proximity sensor? It would be great if anybody can help me out here....

Thanks!

Kind regards

Richard

[gohan]

It depends on what you are looking for
Try to be a little more specific about what you expect

[riochicken]

@gohan

Good point, I expect a proximity sensor which can tell if a bluetooth device with a certain hardware address is in the neighborhood to execute certain scenes within the home automation system...

Thanks!!

[gohan]

I did some research on a similar setup and from the arduino.cc forum I got suggestion to use HM-10 bluetooth modules that can work with BLE devices (like smart bands, BT tags, etc) and use the "scan" AT command that will return a maximun of 6 mac addresses of the devices in range; with that list you need to parse it in the code and send the addresses one by one to the controller. Besides that I couldn't find anything else and I still didn't buy any modules so far.

[riochicken]

@gohan

We could use the code as presented in one of the earlier post by Hek to see if that might work... but first I need to order the modules..

[gohan]

I am ordering one module too. Watch out that the cheap one are clones. From the manufacturer website there is the data sheet with pictures for telling the original from clones together with at commands list

[riochicken]

@gohan

I almost ordered the ones from china, is it an issue that it's going to be a clone?

[gohan]

Well, like every cheap clone you may get something working or not, maybe the firmware doesn't have all the functions as the original one

[riochicken]

@gohan

So where to find the originals?! If you have a link, please let me know... I will search ebay...

[riochicken]

@gohan http://www.ebay.nl/itm/HM-10-Bluetooth-4-0-Module-Interface-Board-CC2541-xDrip-MultiWii-iOS-HM10-UK-/252065518558?hash=item3ab04693de:g:FhoAAOSwv0tVcfP7 ?

[gohan]

That looks like an original

[riochicken]

@gohan

thats whai i thought... but, can we operate it with the mysensors library?

[riochicken]

@gohan

This one also looks original, but for that price I am not really sure...

[gohan]

Integration with mysensors it's up to you, you need to work with strings