Programatically play audio files on a portable computer, like the Raspberry Pi, based on its proximity to Bluetooth beacons. If using a Pi, our Prepare a headless Raspberry Pi from scratch is the ideal starting point.
Clone this repository, and from its root folder, run npm install to install all dependencies.
If using a Pi, we recommend installing as follows:
mkdir ~/reelyActive
cd ~/reelyActive
git clone https://github.com/reelyactive/audible-proximity.git
cd audible-proximity
npm install
To start audible-proximity run npm start again from the root folder.
If an EPERM error is encountered, follow the instructions for assigning privileges in barnowl-hci.
audible-proximity requires the mpg123 lightweight media player, which can easily be installed on Ubuntu/Debian Linux distributions (such as that on a Raspberry Pi) with the command sudo apt install mpg123
By default, audio files are expected to be found in the data/audio subfolder of this repository and have the form xxxxxxx.mp3 where each 'x' is a hexadecimal character (0-9 or a-f), for example 0123abc.mp3.
A Bluetooth beacon transmitting an InteroperaBLE Identifier with the entity UUID 496f4944-434f-4445-b73e-2e2f2e6d7033 will have its 28-bit instance ID interpreted as the filename of the associated .mp3 file.
An audio file is included to facilitate out-of-the-box testing (data/audio/0000000.mp3). To trigger this audio file, configure a Bluetooth beacon (or a beacon simulator app for mobile devices) as Eddystone-UID with the following parameters:
- Namespace ID: 496f49442e2f2e6d7033
- Instance ID: 000000000000
Alternatively, start audible-proximity with the command npm run debug to print status updates to the console for debugging and to facilitate the tweaking of parameters.
To run audible-proximity automatically every time the Pi boots up:
- Copy the unit file to the systemd system folder with the command
sudo cp units/audible-proximity-pi.service /lib/systemd/system - Enable the audible-proximity service with the command
sudo systemctl enable audible-proximity-pi.service - Start the audible-proximity service with the command
sudo systemctl start audible-proximity-pi.service
Note that it may be necessary to edit the WorkingDirectory and/or ExecStart paths to match the installed location of the audible-proximity repository and npm, respectively.
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