Can a Windows PC act as a Bluetooth beacon?
问题 Does a normal Windows (8.1) PC have the ability to act as a Bluetooth LE beacon? If so, is there any software to enable that? Update More current answers here: Beacons in Windows 10 回答1: Pre-Windows 10, Windows 8.1 in your case, doesn't support scanning or acting as iBeacon(s) nativly. However, you have some options: Use the WinBeacon managed library (yes, I'm the owner). Replace the driver of the Bluetooth 4.0 dongle with a libusb/WinUSB driver and you're all set Use a VM that runs linux