Raspberry Pi iBeacon connection timing out

Question

I am currently attempting the Raspberry Pi iBeacon tutorial posted by RadiusNetworks at http://developer.radiusnetworks.com/2013/10/09/how-to-make-an-ibeacon-out-of-a-raspberry-pi.html but I am having issues with the connection timing out after a few seconds. I have performed a fresh build of raspbian, and have tried with 2 different dongles (AZIO V400 and IOGEAR GBU521), and I have tried with Bluez 5.8 per the tutorial as well as Bluez 5.11, both on fresh Raspbian loads. When I call the start script I see: ``` pi@piBlueTest ~ $ ./start Launching virtual iBeacon... LE set advertise enable on hci0 returned status 12 < HCI Command: ogf 0x08, ocf 0x0008, plen 44 1E 02 01 1A 1A FF 4C 00 02 15 E2 C5 6D B5 DF FB 48 D2 B0 60 D0 F5 A7 10 96 E0 00 00 00 00 C9 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > HCI Event: 0x0e plen 4 01 08 20 00 Complete ``` This triggers an "Entered" event on the iPhone using the "Locate iBeacon" app, and shows a distance in meters for a few seconds. It then shows "Dista…

Accepted Answer

Try setting the device to "advertise and not-connectable" (3 instead of 0) instead of "advertise and connectable"

```
sudo hciconfig $BLUETOOTH_DEVICE leadv 3
```

We suddenly had a beacon going down after a few seconds due to a laptop trying to connect. Setting the device to not-connectable solved the problem.

Raspberry Pi iBeacon connection timing out

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