Hacker GitHub

← All repos

google/eddystone

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 3,084 C archived

Specification for Eddystone, an open beacon format from Google

8 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 7 comments · first 2015-07-14 · latest 2023-12-19

Mentions per year 8 mentions · busiest year 2015 (5)
20082026
AllStoriesComments NewestTopOldest
  1. …[0], which takes way longer than giving a star - and I didn't see a complaint about it on HN [0] https://github.com/google/eddystone/issues/258
    comment by andersonmvd · 2023-12-19 · in No star, No fix
  2. ▲ 3
    Eddystone, Google's Physical Web
    story by todd8 · 2017-07-20 · 0 comments
  3. Here's the spec, in case anyone is interested: https://github.com/google/eddystone/tree/master/eddystone-ei...
    comment by scott_yoder · 2016-04-14 · in Google’s Eddystone beacons offer a privacy-focused way to track your stuff
  4. …be transmitting a URL. That said, I believe Physical Web does use the Eddystone-URL mode. Spec: https://github.com/google/eddystone/blob/master/protocol-spe...
    comment by tjohns · 2015-11-02 · in Chrome OS is here to stay
  5. …room for the URL and the telemetry data, so how they achieve this in practice is questionable. [0] https://github.com/google/eddystone/blob/master/protocol-spe...
    comment by chrisfosterelli · 2015-07-23 · in New Chrome for iOS scans for beacons broadcasting URLs
  6. …I believe (the git repo includes an example iOS app[1] but I haven't looked at it yet) [1] https://github.com/google/eddystone/tree/master/tools/ios-ed...
    comment by magicalist · 2015-07-14 · in Google’s Eddystone – a flexible, open-source iBeacon alternative
  7. It looks like they've documented the packet format here: https://github.com/google/eddystone For example URLs: https://github.com/google/eddystone/tree/master/eddystone-ur... , UIDs: https://github.com/google/eddystone/tree/master/eddystone…
    comment by tdicola · 2015-07-14 · in Google’s Eddystone – a flexible, open-source iBeacon alternative
  8. isn't the link on their github to the packet format? https://github.com/google/eddystone/blob/master/protocol-spe... I love this release Google needed to take a direction there are so many use cases for this sort of micro proximity I…
    comment by yresnob · 2015-07-14 · in Google’s Eddystone – a flexible, open-source iBeacon alternative