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VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd Bluetooth Beacon VG05 User Manual Document Information Title VG05 Bluetooth Beacon User Manual Document type Datasheet Document number SL-19040126 Revision and date V1.01 10-June-2019 Disclosure restriction Public Revision History Revision Description Approved Date 1.01...
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SKYLAB is strictly prohibited. The information contained herein is provided “as is” and SKYLAB assumes no liability for the use of the information. No warranty, either express or implied, is given, including but not limited, with respect to the accuracy, correctness, reliability and fitness for a particular purpose of the information.
VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd Contents 1. Product Introduction ..............................5 1.1 VG05 Internal Module Introduction ......................5 1.2 VG05 Features ............................5 1.3 VG05 Application ............................5 2. Hardware Parameter .............................6 Attention: ..................................7 The above data may differ from different environments. It is caculated by current-test (Battery Loss not included) and just for reference.
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VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd List Device Name Device No. Number Remark Bluetooth 4.2 VG05 1 PCS Beacon Battery CR14250 2 PCS Inside VG05 4 / 30 VG05-DA-001,A/0...
VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd 1. Product Introduction VG05 is a Bluetooth Beacon device. It uses a broadcasting protocol which is based on BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy ). VG05 broadcasts its general cofig parameters like UUID, Major, Minor, RSSI etc. to surroundings over 37, 38 and 39 BLE channels continuously and non-directionally .
VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd 2. Hardware Parameter Product Parameter Hardware Features VG05 Model PCB Antenna Antenna Type Battery ER14250 2*1200mAh 3.6V Voltage 52.1*23.1(± 0.3)mm Dimension(D×H) Wireless Features Wireless Bluetooth ® Standards Frequency Range 2400MHz---2483.5MHz Data Rates 250kbps/1Mbps/2Mbps Modulation...
3. Hardware Guide 3.1 VG05 Power on VG05 will power on as soon as any one of its 2 batteries is correctly installed. By default , 2 CR14250 battery will be pre-installed before it arrives at customers’ hand. If you need to change its batteries, please follow the instruction below.
VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd b. Open the bottom shell of the VG05, follow the Battery polarity on the bottom of the battery cell, and replace its 2 CR14250 Li-Batteries. c. Close the bottom shell with its rubber needling aligned to the sink around the side-shell.
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VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd a. Clean up VG05 bottom side (screw side). b.Tear off 3M round tape from the oil-paper and sticky it to the bottom side. 10 / 30 VG05-DA-001,A/0...
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5-10 seconds, make VG05 bottom side and 3M tape fully bonded. d. Remove the protective oilpaper on the other side of the 3M tape and install VG05 to target installation location (if there is dust or grease stain in the target location, it needs to be cleaned and dried in before install).
VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd 4. Software Application Guide 4.1 Download APP Skylab_xbeacon hasn’t been put into the market yet. Please contact our salesman for this APP. 4.2 Scan Bluetooth 4.2 Beacon Open the APP, if cell phone ask for permission to open bluetooth, please select yes. Then it will begin to scan the surrounding Bluetooth 4.2 Beacons.
VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd 4.3 Connect Bluetooth 4.2 Beacon Click the Bluetooth 4.2 Beacon to be connected, enter the password within 30 seconds, in order to obtain operating privileges .(Factory Password:1234) 13 / 30 VG05-DA-001,A/0...
UUID: 128-bit identifier according to ISO/IEC11578:1996 standard (32 hexadecimal digits) Major: set 16-bit identifier (0-65535) Minor: set 16-bit identifier (0-65535) Measured Power: Signal strength at 1 meter(VG05 transmission power is 0dBm) Transmit Power: VG05 transmit power Advertise Interval: VG05 advertise interval...
4.5 Modify Bluetooth 4.2 Beacon Name Click the “Device Name”, the following UI will be opened. Then enter a length of less than 12-bit English characters as VG05 device name in the following “Enter a Name” box. Then click “confirm to modify”.
4.6 Modify UUID Click the “UUID”, ,the following UI will be opened. Then and then enter a 32-byte string of sixteen as the UUID of VG05 in the following “Enter an UUID” box. Then click “confirm to modify”. 16 / 30...
VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd 4.7 Modify User service data Click the " User service data ", the following interface will be opened. Then enter a Hexadecimal string of 24 word . Then click “confirm to modify”. 17 / 30...
VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd 4.8 Modify Major/Minor Click the "Major"/"Minor" ,the following UI will be opened. Then set a value between 0~65535 as the Major/Minor value of the device. Then click “confirm to modify”. 18 / 30 VG05-DA-001,A/0...
Click the “Measured Power”, ,the following UI will be opened. Then select a measured power range from -100dBm to -30dBm. The default is -61dBm. Then click “confirm to modify”. Measured Power means, when a phone’s RSSI is -61dBm, it is about 1 meter from VG05. 19 / 30...
VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd 4.10 Modify Transmitting Power Click the "Transmitting Power" ,the following UI will be opened. Then set a transmitting power, which can be set to: -30dBm, -20dBm, -16dBm, -12dBm, -8dBm, -4dBm, 0dBm, 4dBm and 8dBm. Default Power is 0dBm. Then click “confirm to modify”.
VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd 4.11 Modify Advertise Interval Click the "Advertise Interval" ,the following UI will be opened. Then set a advertise interval. Broadcasting interval can be set to 100ms, 200ms, 300ms, 400ms, 500ms, 600ms ,700ms, 800ms, 900ms and 1000ms. The default is 500ms. Then click “confirm to modify”.
VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd 4.12 Modify Password Click the “Password”, ,the following UI will be opened. Then and then enter the 4 characters as a connection password in the “Password” box, the default is 1234. Then click “confirm to modify”.
VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd 4.13 Switch mode Click “ switch mode” on the upper right corner, the mode selection window will be openend. Then you can choose iBeacon or Eddystone mode. Default mode is iBeacon. 23 / 30...
MAC: Chip MAC address Name: The name of the Bluetooth 4.2 Beacon which is selected. User service data:User-defined data in broadcasting Transmit Power: VG05 transmit power Advertise Interval: VG05 advertise interval Battery Capacity: VG05 battery Capacity Password: VG05 connection password URL : modify the Frame field information in Eddystone.
VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd 4.15 Modify URL Click “URL” ,the following UI will be opened. Then intput at most 16 characters as broadcasting URL. Then click “confirm to modify”. 4.16 Other Setting 25 / 30 VG05-DA-001,A/0...
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VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd Click “Other setting” ,the following UI will be opened. The following three options are UID, EID and TLM. Select and set UID information: 26 / 30 VG05-DA-001,A/0...
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VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd NameSpace(10 bytes) and Instance(6 bytes) are set,respectively. Select and set EID information: 27 / 30 VG05-DA-001,A/0...
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VG05-DA-001,A/ Skylab M&C Technology Co., Ltd Set EID information, maximum 8 bytes. Select and set TLM information: 28 / 30 VG05-DA-001,A/0...
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