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Show HN: Route Your Bluetooth Low Energy Hardware out to the Internet

nodule.io

26 pointsiamflimflam113 comments

We'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.

Great 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 :)

Thanks!

I had a real struggle with the title as I'm finding it difficult to articulate what the product is...

Your 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

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...

Thanks 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.

That's also the old Pi [0]. The new ones look a bit different [1,2]. :)

[0] https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/model-b/

[1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/model-b-plus/

[2] https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-2-model-b/

What kind of security measures do you have in place to prevent from malicious attacks?

All 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.

Though 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-...

Many 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.

That'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.

I 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.

That'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...

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