More BLE node doc/info updates

for Sensortag and physical-web nodes.
Added info, and node Status.

hardware/physical-web/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "node-red-node-physical-web",
-  "version": "0.0.7",
+  "version": "0.0.8",
   "description": "Node-RED nodes to interact with the Physical Web",
   "main": "physical-web.js",
   "scripts": {

hardware/physical-web/physical-web.html

@@ -24,50 +24,41 @@
 
 <script type="text/x-red" data-help-name="PhysicalWeb in">
 <p><a href="https://google.github.io/physical-web/">Physical Web</a> node to scan for Eddystone beacons.</p>
-<p>This node scans for Eddystones and publishes what it finds. It can output 2 types of message</p>
+<p>This node scans for Eddystones and publishes what it finds. It can output 2 types of `msg.payload`</p>
-<ul>
+<p>Either a <b>URL</b> type:</p>
-    <li><strong>URL</strong> -
+    <ul>
-        <ul>
+        <li>`type` - Eddystone type</li>
-            <li>type - Eddystone type</li>
+        <li>`txPower` - Received power at 0m in dBm</li>
-            <li>txPower - Received power at 0m in dBm</li>
+        <li>`url` - The URL the beacon is broadcasting</li>
-            <li>url - The URL the beacon is broadcasting</li>
+        <li>`tlm` - TLM data, if the device is interleaving broadcasts</li>
-            <li>tlm - TLM data, if the device is interleaving broadcasts</li>
+        <li>`rssi` - RSSI of the beacon</li>
-            <li>rssi - RSSI of the beacon</li>
+        <li>`distance` - Estimated distance to the beacon</li>
-            <li>distance - Estimated distance to the beacon</li>
+    </ul>
-        </ul>
+<p>or a <b>UID</b> type:</p>
-    </li>
+    <ul>
-    <li><strong>UID</strong> -
+        <li>`type` - Eddystone type</li>
-        <ul>
+        <li>`txPower` - Received power at 0m in dBm</li>
-            <li>type - Eddystone type</li>
+        <li>`namespace` - 10-byte ID of namspace</li>
-            <li>txPower - Received power at 0m in dBm</li>
+        <li>`instance` - 6-byte ID insance</li>
-            <li>namespace - 10-byte ID of namspace</li>
+        <li>`rssi` - RSSI of the beacon</li>
-            <li>instance - 6-byte ID insance</li>
+        <li>`distance` - Estimated distance to the beacon</li>
-            <li>tlm - TLM data, if the device is interleaving broadcasts</li>
+        <li>`tlm` - TLM data, if the device is interleaving broadcasts</li>
-            <li>rssi - RSSI of the beacon</li>
+    </ul>
-            <li>distance - Estimated distance to the beacon</li>
+<p>Where the `tlm` data will be an object containing:</p>
-        </ul>
+    <ul>
-    </li>
+        <li>`version` - TML version</li>
-</ul>
+        <li>`vbatt` - Battery Voltage</li>
-<p>Where the tlm data will be in the following format</p>
+        <li>`temp` - Temperature</li>
-<ul>
+        <li>`advCnt` - Advertising PDU count</li>
-    <li>tlm -
+        <li>`secCnt` - Time since power on or reboot</li>
-        <ul>
+    </ul>
-            <li>version - TML version</li>
-            <li>vbatt - Battery Voltage</li>
-            <li>temp - Temperature</li>
-            <li>advCnt - Advertising PDU count</li>
-            <li>secCnt - Time since power on or reboot</li>
-        </ul>
-    </li>
-    <li>rssi - RSSI of diecovered beacon</li>
-    <li>distance - Approximate distance to beacon</li>
 </ul>
 <p>Linux users should <a href="https://github.com/sandeepmistry/bleno#running-on-linux" target="_new">READ THIS</a>.</p>
 </script>
 
 <script type="text/javascript">
     RED.nodes.registerType('PhysicalWeb in',{
-        category: 'Physical_Web',
+        category: 'input',
         defaults: {
             name: {value:""},
             topic: {value:"eddystone"}
@@ -110,21 +101,22 @@
 
 <script type="text/x-red" data-help-name="PhysicalWeb out">
     <p><a href="https://google.github.io/physical-web/">Physical Web</a> beacon node.</p>
-    <p>This node takes the value of <code>msg.payload</code> and publishes it as an Eddystone URL
+    <p>This node can take the value of <code>msg.payload</code> and publishes it as an Eddystone URL
     announcement. URLs <b>must</b> be less than 18 bytes long, so should be run through a shortner first.</p>
-    <p>The config window will allow you to set the powerlevel (-30 to 100 db) and the period (ms)
+    <p>You can also preset the URL, in which case the node does not require any input.</p>
-    between anouncements</p>
+    <p>The config window will allow you to set the powerlevel (-30 to 100 db) and the period (S)
+    between anouncements.</p>
     <p>Linux users should <a href="https://github.com/sandeepmistry/bleno#running-on-linux" target="_new">READ THIS</a>.</p>
 </script>
 
 <script type="text/javascript">
     RED.nodes.registerType('PhysicalWeb out',{
-        category: 'Physical_Web',
+        category: 'output',
         defaults: {
             name: {value:""},
             url: {value:"",validate:function(v) {return v.length<19; }},
             power: {value:"-21",validate:RED.validators.number()},
-            period: {value:"10",validate:RED.validators.number()}
+            period: {value:"1",validate:RED.validators.number()}
         },
         color: "#2F7ACD",
         inputs:1,

hardware/physical-web/physical-web.js

@@ -18,12 +18,13 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
     "use strict";
     var eddystoneBeacon = require('eddystone-beacon');
     var EddystoneBeaconScanner = require('eddystone-beacon-scanner');
+    var eddyBeacon = false;
 
     function Beacon(n) {
         RED.nodes.createNode(this,n);
         var node = this;
         node.power = n.power;
-        node.period = n.period;
+        node.period = n.period * 10;
         node.url = n.url;
 
         node.options = {
@@ -33,23 +34,32 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
         };
 
         if (node.url) {
-            try {
+            if (!eddyBeacon) {
-                eddystoneBeacon.advertiseUrl(node.url, node.options);
+                eddyBeacon = true;
-            } catch(e) {
+                try {
-                node.error('Error setting beacon URL', e);
+                    eddystoneBeacon.advertiseUrl(node.url, node.options);
+                    node.status({fill:"green",shape:"dot",text:node.url});
+                } catch(e) {
+                    node.error('Error setting beacon URL', e);
+                }
             }
+            else {node.warn('Beacon node already in use');}
         }
 
         node.on('input', function(msg) {
             try {
                 eddystoneBeacon.advertiseUrl(msg.payload, node.options);
+                node.status({fill:"green",shape:"dot",text:node.url.toString()});
             } catch(e) {
+                node.status({fill:"red",shape:"circle",text:"URL too long"});
                 node.error('error updating beacon URL', e);
             }
         });
 
         node.on('close', function(done) {
+            eddyBeacon = false;
             try {
+                node.status({});
                 eddystoneBeacon.stop();
                 done();
             } catch(e) {

hardware/sensorTag/79-sensorTag.html

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <!--
-  Copyright 2014.2015 IBM Corp.
+  Copyright 2014.2016 IBM Corp.
 
   Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
   you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -49,14 +49,11 @@
 
 <script type="text/x-red" data-help-name="sensorTag">
    <p>Node to read from the Ti SensorTag</p>
-   <p>For this node to work correctly on Linux, Node-Red needs to be run as
-     <i>root</i>, this due to how Bluetooth 4.0 support is currently implemented
-      in Linux.</p>
    <p>The UUID field is the bluetooth mac address of the sensor tag, this is optional
       and can be used to bind to a specific SensorTag if you have more than one
       active in range at the same time. <b>Note</b>:you can only have one SensorTag
-      per node-red instance at the moment.</p>
+      per Node-RED instance at the moment.</p>
-   <p>The topic setting is a prefix that will be pre-pended to the name of the
+   <p>The <i>topic</i> setting is a prefix that will be pre-pended to the name of the
       sensor that creates the reading. e.g. <i>sensorTag/temperature</i>. If
       blank it will be set to the UUID of the sensor tag.</p>
     <p><strong>NOTE:</strong> Only 1 sensorTag can be read from at a time,

hardware/sensorTag/79-sensorTag.js

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /**
- * Copyright 2014,2015 IBM Corp.
+ * Copyright 2014,2016 IBM Corp.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ module.exports = function(RED) {
         if (this.uuid === "") { this.uuid = undefined; }
         var node = this;
 
-        if ( typeof node.stag === "undefined") {
+        if (typeof node.stag === "undefined") {
             node.status({fill:"blue", shape:"dot", text:"discovering..."});
 
             SensorTag.discover(function(sensorTag) {

hardware/sensorTag/README.md

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ You will need a suitable Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) stack and drivers for your h
 
 #### Raspberry Pi
 
-Install Bluetooth drivers and bluez stack, and set executeable by non-root user
+Install Bluetooth drivers and bluez stack, and set executable by non-root user
 
     sudo apt-get install libbluetooth-dev libudev-dev pi-bluetooth
     sudo setcap cap_net_raw+eip $(eval readlink -f `which node`)
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Install
 Run the following command in your Node-RED user directory - typically `~/.node-red`
 
     npm i node-red-node-sensortag
-    
+
 
 Usage
 -----
@@ -51,6 +51,4 @@ these sensors will be sent as a JSON object payload with the sensor name appende
 * Luxometer - { topic: [topic_prefix]/luxometer , payload: { lux: 212 } }
 * Buttons - { topic: [topic_prefix]/keys , payload: { left: true, right: false} }
 
-The sensorTag library used by this node only supports using 1 SensorTag at a time.
+**Note**: This sensorTag library only supports using 1 SensorTag at a time.
-
-**NOTE:** On Linux Node-RED needs to be run as root in order or access the Linux Bluetooth 4.0 system calls

hardware/sensorTag/package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
     "name": "node-red-node-sensortag",
     "description": "A Node-RED node to read data from a TI SensorTag",
-    "version": "0.0.11",
+    "version": "0.0.12",
     "keywords": [
         "node-red",
         "sensortag",