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Show HN: Route Your Bluetooth Low Energy Hardware out to the Internet
- iamflimflam1 11y agoWe're in alpha/beta at the moment, but everything should be functional. You can download the mobile apps and use your phone as a bridge from your Bluetooth Low Energy devices out to the nodule server. From there you can drive the device using HTML and Javascript. BTW - my email is in my profile if you want to get in touch.
- lifeeth_ 11y agoGreat product - Will be really handy in BLE firmware development as well I guess. Somehow I thought this was an implementation of "IPv6 over Bluetooth Smart" though :)
- iamflimflam1 11y agoThanks! I had a real struggle with the title as I'm finding it difficult to articulate what the product is...
- janekm 11y agoYour graphics on the home-page confused me into thinking that you are using Raspberry Pi's as the bridge (yeah, I didn't look carefully enough). But that would be a good idea as that could be easier than having to dedicate a phone to the task (especially if you make a downloadable image that just runs your code automatically). The "noble" node.js package is quite nice: https://github.com/sandeepmistry/noble https://github.com/sandeepmistry/noble Sadly Bluetooth LE on Linux (at least with noble) is not terribly good (compared to iOS) though it may have improved since I last tried...
- iamflimflam1 11y agoThanks for the feedback. There's a command line client in the works that sits on top of noble that should work on the Pi - hoping to get it finished this weekend.
- jsingleton 11y agoThat's also the old Pi [0]. The new ones look a bit different [1,2]. :) [0] https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/model-b/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/model-b/ [1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/model-b-plus/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/model-b-plus/ [2] https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-2-model-b/ https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-2-model-b/
- hoopism 11y agoI enjoyed this as well... Struggling to find applications off the top of my head but it's a nice implementation. Some use cases on the site would be a nice addition.
- iamflimflam1 11y agoThat's a great idea - we're quite early stage just getting the tech side of things working nicely. I guess it is probably completely wrong, building something and then looking for problems to solve...
- xasos 11y agoWhat kind of security measures do you have in place to prevent from malicious attacks?
- iamflimflam1 11y agoAll the coms runs over https or wss and access is controlled by tokens that can be invalidated. But security is a big issue in this area. If you have any suggestions on what we should be doing then it would be great to have some input.
- louprado 11y agoMany of us have older phones and tablets at home, so this approach makes sense. Will you also allow the user to turn on the camera or microphone ? That feature is relevant when integrating with BTLE security sensors. BTW, my company makes a garage door opener App, GarageMate, and we will look into integration soon.
- iamflimflam1 11y agoThat's a really interesting idea, up to know we've been purely thinking about the BTLE environment, but it would be cool to expose sensors on the actual phone as well.
- iamflimflam1 11y agoThough some people might be interested in the stats from being on the front page of Hacker News: http://blog.nodule.io/blog/2015/08/17/2015-08-17-the-hacker-news-effect.html http://blog.nodule.io/blog/2015/08/17/2015-08-17-the-hacker-...