Excellent! Downloaded nRF Connect to my LG phone and set up 5 "locations." My two droids are having a great time as I'm discovering the different sounds and head movements. Can't wait to take one back to GE in WDW. Thanks so much for your expertise from an admitted novice!
Yes! It is pretty cool. The best part is controlling the droid from your phone allows for variable speed motor control, so controlling the BB series droids (with practice) is a whole lot easier. It has 3 modes... app version replacement of the remote, a dance mode that let's you select dance moves and have the droid dance to one of 3 songs, and a tic tax toe game you can play against your Droid.
@@VProFX A couple things that intrigue me: The droid makes a noise when you connect *without* any lights illuminated. I always wondered if the sounds and/or lights could be triggered independently. The other thing is the Piloting function - I love the joystick control and how if you move the head while piloting with the joystick, the droid turns. However, my droid's sounds/lights are triggered every 10 seconds when piloting. That's one thing that I would like to see changed in future revisions. Overall, though - super cool app that proves that so much more is possible!
So I did get a chance to scan in The Star Trader (gift shop at the Star Tours exit) and no signals like the ones in GE ... but I did see like 8 Droid signals from other park guest's droids. So I'm guessing your droid reacted to someone else's droid in the shop.
Thank you for the great video and all the work you've done to figure this out. I'll be heading to Disneyland's GE in mid Feb, 2020 and have been looking for just this type of information as I'd like to be able to have the droids react when back home like they will when in the park. I'm a data networking guy by profession and amateur radio operator by hobby so I understand the technology at work, but I don't really have any programming experience to speak of, so I'm really looking forward to your video on coding for the Adafruit device and nordic semiconductor dongle. Oh, and thanks also for the link to the GE discord server!
Vince, I've watched this video a several times now. I appreciate the work you and others have put into it. It compelled me to look into an Arduino. I'm using the Arduino UNO and have been stumbling through using the IDE and adding LEDs, OLEDs, and a few other things. I'm looking into the AdaFruit Feather nRF52832 and the AdaFruit FeatherWing OLED in hopes of setting up a beacon my granddaughter and I can have our droids respond to. I read through the comments and am hoping you are still planning on making a "nRF52 coding" video. You have an excellent teaching style and I found this video very well made. I really enjoyed the explanations. I am not a very creative person, but like to make things. I was able to transmit the various codes you included in the video and both my granddaughter and I enjoyed watching the droids respond. I'm looking forward to your next video. Thank you.
Has anyone looked at using a RPi v3 BLE beacon? I'm trying to sort out the encoding to replicate this in, e.g., python so I can change the beacons in a near-random manner. This is great info and has helped me make some gains. Thanks!
I did something VERY quick in python to work on a Raspberry Pi 0 W I had laying around. It's very much WIP. Look for swge_droid_beacon_pi0w on github.com
So could these beacons be hidden around the house; First order in bedroom or Resistance in the kitchen? Not sure if they can be modified to stay plugged into the walls or not? To stay active. PS: awesome video, a true service to the community!
Actually, the adafruit device I used in the video can use USB power and could be plugged in the same USB power adapter you use to charge a phone ... so you can keep them plugged in.
Thanks for this video, this is exactly the sort of thing I've wanted to create. Do you have a repo with your code? I'd like to see how you are setting up the 832/840 to broadcast. Have you noticed any beacons on the Park cast members playing Kylo or Stormtroopers?
I really want to look into this. I'm telling my kids we are sentinal Jedi. Is there any way you could make a video on how to make a fulcrum motivator that broadcasts all the signaled with selectivity?
Actually, I'm modifying my code for the Adafruit device to select from any of the signals found. Once I finish that I can then finish the video for showing how 😁
Nice! .. Ya I recently found the same thing .. but I did notice that the 0xFF in the 0x0A0405FFA601 (found near the Cantina) seems to be setup to tell the droids to only react once when they see it. I waited 6+ min and the droid didn't react a second time to the 0xFF beacons until the droid stops seeing that one broadcast.
Did you find the 1 minute cycle when you were broadcasting all signals at once? I have two signals broadcasting through the android app and found that it only changes the sound/movement it makes when going into sleep mode. I can't get the droid to stay awake without pressing a button on the controller every couple minutes.
A random question, how is the droid controlled? The remote looks ugly as sin and I was wondering if it was bluetooth if it could be spoofed from an app or similar?
A few of us have been working on that, CowKitty & Spork @ DeadBothans have made the best progress on that front. www.deadbothans.com/ The remotes don't show up in standard bluetooth scans. Once it is something we can successfully replicate, I'll look into doing a video on it.
Hello there. Great vid snd really well explained. Looking forward to having a go when I get my droid (Aug this year). Do you know if those signals are the same at both Disney World and Disney Land?
I actually just figured it out ... the droids normally react about every min or so... the 0xFF in the 0x0A0405FFA601 I found that the droids react once when they see it and waited 6+ min and the droid didn't react a second time. I should leave it the signal on and see if it is just a really long timer or if it is a once and done... but there ya go :)
This is really cool, and I am trying to replicate this with my iOS device on the app nRF Connect, but I am not able to figure it out. When I try to add a new advertiser I do not know what type of service to select, and I cant seem to edit or add any manufacturer data to it. Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated. The video was awesome, and I am hoping to replicate it!
Well, from what I can tell, it looks like cloning signals and creating advertising data with custom Manufacturer ID and Data is an Android only feature. "Bluetooth Low Energy Advertising (peripheral role)" is listed under the Android only feature section of the website. This could be a limitation of iOS imposed by Apple, not entirely sure. I have added this information to the description. Going to see if I can add an annotation to the video now that I know it's an Android only feature.
I was looking at my Droid and I'm looking for improvements. I'm thinking one of the LED inputs might be for blue tooth activity. Has anyone tried it yet? Also, the wheel on the side seem to be inhibiting proper pitch and yaw causing unecessary friction. A modification with a ball bearing and some better motors might make a huge difference if you add some more weight. I don't think the batteries are enough.
Is the 05FF signal possibly for the droid detector at the door of the Cantina? I noticed that the detector went off whenever my family of droids went by, but I noticed it didn't just go off for anyone going by.
Question I was thinking of building my first droid ever soon how do you get them to react to the signals in the park I asked last time I was on planet but no one knew
The signals are being broadcast in different sections of Galaxy's Edge. So if you are near the Resistance area, your droid will pick up the beacon signal automatically and react every so often.
You can use the nRF Connect App on Android ( play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=no.nordicsemi.android.mcp ) to emulate the beacon signals ... you can manually set it up without having to scan it. I show this step by step at 5:52 in the video, and I list the Manufacturer data for each beacon that you would input into the app with a map of the location it was found I the park at 12:35 in the video. As far as the code for the Adafruit device and nordic semiconductor dongle, I plan to show that in an upcoming video.
Hi your a genius yes you are and I envy you. thank you for sharing your talents. Is the a place we're you can down load the signals. I'm not get back to galaxy edge for a while. Do you sell the set up for us not so talented. Thank you again.thank
How easy is it to code the Bluefruit to transmit? is there a big learning curve or is it simple? and do you have the place you are going to upload the code you used for it? i might have a chance of building a similar rig to your Bluefruit setup for a school project, and any tips you could offer would be a great help!
It wasn't too difficult in my opinion... (but that could be relative 😁). I programmed it in arduino. I'm just now playing with Circuit Python to see if I can make it easier. I'm finishing a video on it, just haven't been able to finish it. RL and my day job have gotten in the way a bit unfortunately.
I understand this is an old video, but do you know if anyone's figured out where the 04 beacon is yet? Because the sounds my droid is making makes me wonder if it's the costumed cast members
So there’s an app you can control the droid with and it asks what chip you have. It doesn’t seem to make the droid react more. Is this sending a signal from my phone ( replicating the broadcast signal)?
Not sure if anyone here has tried it, but does anyone know how to take these values and convert them into something that the eddystone format could use?
All Bluetooth advertisement data includes a Company ID that the manufacturer has registered at the Bluetooth SIG, and there is a public list of the Manufacturers IDs listed here: www.bluetooth.com/specifications/assigned-numbers/company-identifiers/ That is where I found the ID for "Walt Disney" 0x0183
As far as the data starting with 0A... That was trial and error... i scanned the park in Galaxy's Edge and filtered by the Disney ID and then logged all the signals I found. Then once I got home I started cloning all the signals until I found one that my Droid reacted to, which I found was all the the data that was starting with 0x0A ... Ex: 0x0A040302A601
Hey there! I know this is an OLD video, but I just got my droid last week and I've been looking for ways to keep it active and chatting. Sadly this doesn't seem to be working. Have there been changes made in the past 2 years? I'm specifically talking about the phone app portion.
It only works on the Android version, apparently Apple limits the access for developers to do control Bluetooth broadcasting and so Nordic's app on iOS doesn't have the advertising broadcast feature unfortunately.
Does a particular chip affects reaction to signals? I have a black chip installed on a bb unit and it looks like it reacts once then goes to sleep mode with the 04 signal and first order signal?
Update on my own post! The droid was not responding properly to the broadcasted signal as batteries were drained. The one that come with the droid originally are super whack! Changed to Duracell and droid was happy and responding to broadcasted signal with no issues. Thx again for this amazing video!
Apple unfortunately from what I have seen, Apple (for security reasons) doesn't allow for custom Manufacturer IDs... when you use an apple device for BLE signals it will always have a Manufacturer ID of 0x004C (Apple) ... so you won't be able to simulate a Walt Disney ID of 0x0183
Here is a link to the Getting Started with the nrf52840 on the Nordic website: infocenter.nordicsemi.com/index.jsp?topic=%2Fug_nrf52840_dongle%2FUG%2Fnrf52840_Dongle%2Fgetting_started.html I used Segger Embedded Studio to create the HEX file of my BLE droid signal program. www.segger.com/products/development-tools/embedded-studio/ And then loaded it with the nRF Connect Programming App. It is more complicated to setup the dev environment to program it then something like adafruit boards that can be programmed with Circuit Python or Arduino, but Nordic has great documentation and resources for it. www.nordicsemi.com/Software-and-tools/Development-Kits/nRF52840-Dongle/GetStarted#infotabs
I have a couple in the works, one on the code I used to replicate beacons with the Adafruit Feather and Nordic Dongle devices, and another on personality chips and beacon signals. Was there anything in particular that you wanted to see?
@@shadow6600 the beacon signals are just being reproduced from the signals in the park. The droids have been programmed to make sounds and rotate their heads based on those specific signals. So without reprogramming the main chip on the droid PCB, there isn't really a way with beacon signals to make the droids do anything else. Now that being said, if we could replicate the remote control signals, then we could make the droid do whatever we like. 😁
Vince, question for you, does the “droid” signal change for a moment when 2 droids are talking? I ask, because the response from the second droid is almost immediate. Seems to me that something would have to change to prompt the immediate response.
I'll do some more tests to verify, but from what I have found, the droids have a random timer for reacting to other droids ... once they see a droid signal, it could be random somewhere between instant and like 2-ish minutes. So it is a good chance you just had random times at that instant that made it look like a response. But it is and interesting thought, so now you've made me want to play with it a bit more to verify. 😁
What I have witnessed on several tests is that the time is random as to when the conversation starts, but that once it does start, one ‘talks’ and when it finishes, the other ‘responds’ with in a few seconds. Then there will be a pause for some time, then another talk/respond will occur. In all my tests, the which ever droid is the ‘talker’ remains the ‘talker’ throughout the conversation.
Do your droids have personality chips? I know that stock droids end in 201 and 202. The blue personality chip broadcasts a signal ending in A03. Do you know the others?
The IOS version of "nRF Connect for Mobile" version 2.4.11 interface is very different from that shown. Trying to set up an advertiser as shown at 5:52 however, in the IOS version "Manufacture Data" isn't on option Can someone point me in the right direction, I've drained my battery twice now searching thru all of the options.
Currently only the Android version has the Clone and Custom Manufacturer Data for broadcast functions. Apple currently doesn't allow developers to have access to these Bluetooth Features for their own security reasons, so Nordic wasn't able to include this feature on iOS.
@@VProFX Thank you Mr. Parker for taking the time to answer. After posting the question I noticed that it had been asked before; however, I was hoping the newer revision had included the option for iOS and I was missing it somehow... + Any update on the follow-up video(s)? I"ve never worked with either the Adafruit or Nordic stuff - doesn't look too hard; however, would like to see a master at work! Which would you suggest for a noob to start with? We have adopted 4 brand new droids this past month in the house that I'd love to have not only interacting with each other but also with the simulated environment of GE - WDW had so much shut down that I don't think we really had a the full experience..... the kiddos will be absolutely ecstatic to have their droids not only interacting with each other but also in their rooms, living room etc... I think the living room will be first order territory!
Hey, so I play with my droid and these signals a lot. There is one in your video that is suspected to be the new rise of the resistance ride. Is this confirmed now? I can say that my droid with the blue chip reacts uniquely to that signal. He makes sounds and movements from that signal unlike anything else. Also, I have been able to get my droid to respond to signals cloned from other droids. At this time I only have a few signals. Do you know anywhere I can find more signal data on droids?
I don't think it has been confirmed yet, I haven't been able to check myself. (I'm in California and Disneyland hasn't opened ROTR ride here yet). I plan on scanning the ride once it opens here in Disneyland Resort. Also, we have confirmed that the 3 byte in each of the beacon signals determines the sounds the droid plays when it sees that signal. So the signal for a 0x0A040402A601 would be totally different sounds then 0x0A040702A601 for example. If you want to see the list of all the signals I found so far, I list them in the video with a map at 12:35.
Vince Parker oh yes, I have followed your video closely. One thing I’ve noticed is that my droid with the blue chip doesn’t appear to play sounds from the 04 group, like, ever. Only when I broadcast the 04 signal. Also of note, you can clone the droid signals and with personality chips they end in 01,02,03,05,06,07. But not 04. What does it all mean?!? I wonder if 04 is reserved for something special. I have linked to your video from reddit many times as I would love a community to contribute to understanding droid reactions. You know how people know what droids are saying in the movies? That! I want to figure that out, you know?
Apple unfortunately from what I have seen, Apple (for security reasons) doesn't allow for custom Manufacturer IDs... when you use an apple device for BLE signals it will always have a Manufacturer ID of 0x004C (Apple) ... so you won't be able to simulate a Walt Disney ID of 0x0183
I wish there was ...Apple unfortunately from what I have seen, Apple (for security reasons) doesn't allow for custom Manufacturer IDs... when you use an apple device for BLE signals it will always have a Manufacturer ID of 0x004C (Apple) ... so you won't be able to simulate a Walt Disney ID of 0x0183
Apple unfortunately from what I have seen, Apple (for security reasons) doesn't allow for custom Manufacturer IDs... when you use an apple device for BLE signals it will always have a Manufacturer ID of 0x004C (Apple) ... so you won't be able to simulate a Walt Disney ID of 0x0183
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Amazing! Really thx so much this is so useful! Having the BB unit is so frustrating having to open it up every time to turn it on off. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Excellent! Downloaded nRF Connect to my LG phone and set up 5 "locations." My two droids are having a great time as I'm discovering the different sounds and head movements. Can't wait to take one back to GE in WDW. Thanks so much for your expertise from an admitted novice!
This is so cool. Love this and thank you all for sharing your scanned data.
Hey - did anyone see that Disney released a new droid depot app to interact with your droids? From what I can tell - the possibilities are endless!
Yes! It is pretty cool. The best part is controlling the droid from your phone allows for variable speed motor control, so controlling the BB series droids (with practice) is a whole lot easier. It has 3 modes... app version replacement of the remote, a dance mode that let's you select dance moves and have the droid dance to one of 3 songs, and a tic tax toe game you can play against your Droid.
@@VProFX A couple things that intrigue me: The droid makes a noise when you connect *without* any lights illuminated. I always wondered if the sounds and/or lights could be triggered independently. The other thing is the Piloting function - I love the joystick control and how if you move the head while piloting with the joystick, the droid turns. However, my droid's sounds/lights are triggered every 10 seconds when piloting. That's one thing that I would like to see changed in future revisions. Overall, though - super cool app that proves that so much more is possible!
Has anyone had problems with the C series droid and not being able to Name them in the app?
This video is fantastic! Is anyone selling an emitter you can place in your room to throw codes for your droid?
i just watched every minute of your channel! great stuff, love the info sharing and using
Thank you! I was looking to do something similar to recreate for my son and came across this. This is a huge jumpstart.
Check for signals at and around Star Tours. My droid reacted in the gift shop of star tours (around the registers).
Interesting, I'll check next time I go. But keep in mind that if anyone else has a droid on near by, your droid will react to it's signal.
So I did get a chance to scan in The Star Trader (gift shop at the Star Tours exit) and no signals like the ones in GE ... but I did see like 8 Droid signals from other park guest's droids. So I'm guessing your droid reacted to someone else's droid in the shop.
Great video thanks for the info. Getting a droid today at Disney World HS can't wait to try this out.
Thank you for the great video and all the work you've done to figure this out. I'll be heading to Disneyland's GE in mid Feb, 2020 and have been looking for just this type of information as I'd like to be able to have the droids react when back home like they will when in the park. I'm a data networking guy by profession and amateur radio operator by hobby so I understand the technology at work, but I don't really have any programming experience to speak of, so I'm really looking forward to your video on coding for the Adafruit device and nordic semiconductor dongle. Oh, and thanks also for the link to the GE discord server!
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm hoping to finish the video on programming them soon. Work and other RL stuff has gotten in the way a bit.
@@VProFX I see that you were not able to get to the next video. Can you share the source code for programming the rf52840?
Awesome video. Thank you. I downloaded the Bluetooth app and loaded a bunch of beacons!
Vince, I've watched this video a several times now. I appreciate the work you and others have put into it. It compelled me to look into an Arduino. I'm using the Arduino UNO and have been stumbling through using the IDE and adding LEDs, OLEDs, and a few other things. I'm looking into the AdaFruit Feather nRF52832 and the AdaFruit FeatherWing OLED in hopes of setting up a beacon my granddaughter and I can have our droids respond to. I read through the comments and am hoping you are still planning on making a "nRF52 coding" video. You have an excellent teaching style and I found this video very well made. I really enjoyed the explanations. I am not a very creative person, but like to make things. I was able to transmit the various codes you included in the video and both my granddaughter and I enjoyed watching the droids respond. I'm looking forward to your next video. Thank you.
awesome explanation thank you very much!!!
Has anyone looked at using a RPi v3 BLE beacon? I'm trying to sort out the encoding to replicate this in, e.g., python so I can change the beacons in a near-random manner. This is great info and has helped me make some gains. Thanks!
I did something VERY quick in python to work on a Raspberry Pi 0 W I had laying around. It's very much WIP. Look for swge_droid_beacon_pi0w on github.com
So could these beacons be hidden around the house; First order in bedroom or Resistance in the kitchen?
Not sure if they can be modified to stay plugged into the walls or not? To stay active.
PS: awesome video, a true service to the community!
Actually, the adafruit device I used in the video can use USB power and could be plugged in the same USB power adapter you use to charge a phone ... so you can keep them plugged in.
Thanks for the video! The instructions were great and anyone who wants to set up a beacon should give it a go! 😄🙌🏼
Thanks for this video, this is exactly the sort of thing I've wanted to create. Do you have a repo with your code? I'd like to see how you are setting up the 832/840 to broadcast. Have you noticed any beacons on the Park cast members playing Kylo or Stormtroopers?
This is great! Thank you.
This is so cool, thank you!
I really want to look into this. I'm telling my kids we are sentinal Jedi. Is there any way you could make a video on how to make a fulcrum motivator that broadcasts all the signaled with selectivity?
Actually, I'm modifying my code for the Adafruit device to select from any of the signals found. Once I finish that I can then finish the video for showing how 😁
I did a timing tests and advertised all of the beacons. It's a 1 minute cycle every time they react
Nice! .. Ya I recently found the same thing .. but I did notice that the 0xFF in the 0x0A0405FFA601 (found near the Cantina) seems to be setup to tell the droids to only react once when they see it. I waited 6+ min and the droid didn't react a second time to the 0xFF beacons until the droid stops seeing that one broadcast.
Did you find the 1 minute cycle when you were broadcasting all signals at once?
I have two signals broadcasting through the android app and found that it only changes the sound/movement it makes when going into sleep mode. I can't get the droid to stay awake without pressing a button on the controller every couple minutes.
A random question, how is the droid controlled?
The remote looks ugly as sin and I was wondering if it was bluetooth if it could be spoofed from an app or similar?
A few of us have been working on that, CowKitty & Spork @ DeadBothans have made the best progress on that front. www.deadbothans.com/ The remotes don't show up in standard bluetooth scans. Once it is something we can successfully replicate, I'll look into doing a video on it.
@@VProFX interesting. ill be sure to subscribe so i'm updated on that
Very cool . Want do this make a Device do this for kids in the Neighborhood when past by my house.
this video is amazing!
Hello there. Great vid snd really well explained. Looking forward to having a go when I get my droid (Aug this year).
Do you know if those signals are the same at both Disney World and Disney Land?
Yes, they are the same. One of our discord members did scans in the Disneyworld Hollywood Studios Galaxy's Edge and picked up the same signals.
Thank you for thr confirmation.
Thank for this video! Now I don't have to buy a second droid to get mine to come to life. Did you ever figure out what the FF does?
I actually just figured it out ... the droids normally react about every min or so... the 0xFF in the 0x0A0405FFA601 I found that the droids react once when they see it and waited 6+ min and the droid didn't react a second time. I should leave it the signal on and see if it is just a really long timer or if it is a once and done... but there ya go :)
This is really cool, and I am trying to replicate this with my iOS device on the app nRF Connect, but I am not able to figure it out. When I try to add a new advertiser I do not know what type of service to select, and I cant seem to edit or add any manufacturer data to it. Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated. The video was awesome, and I am hoping to replicate it!
Well, from what I can tell, it looks like cloning signals and creating advertising data with custom Manufacturer ID and Data is an Android only feature. "Bluetooth Low Energy Advertising (peripheral role)" is listed under the Android only feature section of the website. This could be a limitation of iOS imposed by Apple, not entirely sure.
I have added this information to the description. Going to see if I can add an annotation to the video now that I know it's an Android only feature.
Vince Parker Ahh!! Thank you! I totally missed that in the description
Keep up the cool work with the droids!
Do you have a list of all of the Bluetooth signals somewhere? I would love to add all the ones you've found.
Has there been any new developments since this video was uploaded?
I'm curious if the Droid Depot droids themselves have different bluetooth signals or if all models have the same one.
trying to set this up on my iphone but i can find an option for adding manufacturer data. how can i do this on my Iphone or ipad?
I was looking at my Droid and I'm looking for improvements. I'm thinking one of the LED inputs might be for blue tooth activity. Has anyone tried it yet? Also, the wheel on the side seem to be inhibiting proper pitch and yaw causing unecessary friction. A modification with a ball bearing and some better motors might make a huge difference if you add some more weight. I don't think the batteries are enough.
is the 04 "???" the Rise of the Resistance?
Is the 05FF signal possibly for the droid detector at the door of the Cantina? I noticed that the detector went off whenever my family of droids went by, but I noticed it didn't just go off for anyone going by.
Haven't confirmed that for sure but that is what we think as well.
Hello Vince is there a way to get the program file(s) for the nrf 52 Bluefruit board (I would like to build it myself)
Thanks in advance.
would you please prepare a guide for a beacon to unlock the data pad off world?
Question I was thinking of building my first droid ever soon how do you get them to react to the signals in the park I asked last time I was on planet but no one knew
The signals are being broadcast in different sections of Galaxy's Edge. So if you are near the Resistance area, your droid will pick up the beacon signal automatically and react every so often.
Instead of going to the park and extracting the bluetooth beacon signals. Do you have the info and files for the bluetooth beacon emulator?
You can use the nRF Connect App on Android ( play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=no.nordicsemi.android.mcp ) to emulate the beacon signals ... you can manually set it up without having to scan it. I show this step by step at 5:52 in the video, and I list the Manufacturer data for each beacon that you would input into the app with a map of the location it was found I the park at 12:35 in the video. As far as the code for the Adafruit device and nordic semiconductor dongle, I plan to show that in an upcoming video.
@@VProFX Thank you very much
Hi your a genius yes you are and I envy you. thank you for sharing your talents. Is the a place we're you can down load the signals. I'm not get back to galaxy edge for a while. Do you sell the set up for us not so talented.
Thank you again.thank
How easy is it to code the Bluefruit to transmit? is there a big learning curve or is it simple? and do you have the place you are going to upload the code you used for it? i might have a chance of building a similar rig to your Bluefruit setup for a school project, and any tips you could offer would be a great help!
It wasn't too difficult in my opinion... (but that could be relative 😁). I programmed it in arduino. I'm just now playing with Circuit Python to see if I can make it easier. I'm finishing a video on it, just haven't been able to finish it. RL and my day job have gotten in the way a bit unfortunately.
@@VProFX thank you so much! I can't wait to watch it!
would the FF 4th byte codes be a timing so that in the cantina it doesnt go trigger that often as that is a place u may be for a while?
From what I can tell, yes. The FF in the 4th byte tells the droid to only react once instead of every 60 seconds.
I understand this is an old video, but do you know if anyone's figured out where the 04 beacon is yet? Because the sounds my droid is making makes me wonder if it's the costumed cast members
So there’s an app you can control the droid with and it asks what chip you have. It doesn’t seem to make the droid react more. Is this sending a signal from my phone ( replicating the broadcast signal)?
Not sure if anyone here has tried it, but does anyone know how to take these values and convert them into something that the eddystone format could use?
How did you figure out which one to look for (1083)? And even more so how did you figure out the signal started with 0A?
All Bluetooth advertisement data includes a Company ID that the manufacturer has registered at the Bluetooth SIG, and there is a public list of the Manufacturers IDs listed here:
www.bluetooth.com/specifications/assigned-numbers/company-identifiers/
That is where I found the ID for "Walt Disney" 0x0183
As far as the data starting with 0A... That was trial and error... i scanned the park in Galaxy's Edge and filtered by the Disney ID and then logged all the signals I found. Then once I got home I started cloning all the signals until I found one that my Droid reacted to, which I found was all the the data that was starting with 0x0A ... Ex: 0x0A040302A601
Wow. Thanks for doing all that work.
Any chance you might share your source code?
Hey there! I know this is an OLD video, but I just got my droid last week and I've been looking for ways to keep it active and chatting. Sadly this doesn't seem to be working. Have there been changes made in the past 2 years? I'm specifically talking about the phone app portion.
It only works on the Android version, apparently Apple limits the access for developers to do control Bluetooth broadcasting and so Nordic's app on iOS doesn't have the advertising broadcast feature unfortunately.
Does a particular chip affects reaction to signals? I have a black chip installed on a bb unit and it looks like it reacts once then goes to sleep mode with the 04 signal and first order signal?
Update on my own post! The droid was not responding properly to the broadcasted signal as batteries were drained. The one that come with the droid originally are super whack! Changed to Duracell and droid was happy and responding to broadcasted signal with no issues. Thx again for this amazing video!
Any update on a solution that works for the iPhone?
Apple unfortunately from what I have seen, Apple (for security reasons) doesn't allow for custom Manufacturer IDs... when you use an apple device for BLE signals it will always have a Manufacturer ID of 0x004C (Apple) ... so you won't be able to simulate a Walt Disney ID of 0x0183
I recently bought the nRF52840 dongle, but cannot figure out how you programmed it. Can you provide instructions please?
Here is a link to the Getting Started with the nrf52840 on the Nordic website: infocenter.nordicsemi.com/index.jsp?topic=%2Fug_nrf52840_dongle%2FUG%2Fnrf52840_Dongle%2Fgetting_started.html
I used Segger Embedded Studio to create the HEX file of my BLE droid signal program.
www.segger.com/products/development-tools/embedded-studio/ And then loaded it with the nRF Connect Programming App.
It is more complicated to setup the dev environment to program it then something like adafruit boards that can be programmed with Circuit Python or Arduino, but Nordic has great documentation and resources for it. www.nordicsemi.com/Software-and-tools/Development-Kits/nRF52840-Dongle/GetStarted#infotabs
What's the new video gonna be about
I have a couple in the works, one on the code I used to replicate beacons with the Adafruit Feather and Nordic Dongle devices, and another on personality chips and beacon signals. Was there anything in particular that you wanted to see?
@@VProFX Is there a way you can make your own beacon to make it do something else like spin and other stuff??
@@shadow6600 the beacon signals are just being reproduced from the signals in the park. The droids have been programmed to make sounds and rotate their heads based on those specific signals. So without reprogramming the main chip on the droid PCB, there isn't really a way with beacon signals to make the droids do anything else. Now that being said, if we could replicate the remote control signals, then we could make the droid do whatever we like. 😁
@@VProFX What so special about the remote tho and if we were able to copy the signals from the remote what can we do ?
My R5 B2 was going crazy in Dok Ondars, he has a smugglers chip, maybe that has some correlation?
he wanna steal
@@spacemjme Could try that next time.... "Disney made me do it!"
Vince, question for you, does the “droid” signal change for a moment when 2 droids are talking? I ask, because the response from the second droid is almost immediate. Seems to me that something would have to change to prompt the immediate response.
I'll do some more tests to verify, but from what I have found, the droids have a random timer for reacting to other droids ... once they see a droid signal, it could be random somewhere between instant and like 2-ish minutes. So it is a good chance you just had random times at that instant that made it look like a response. But it is and interesting thought, so now you've made me want to play with it a bit more to verify. 😁
What I have witnessed on several tests is that the time is random as to when the conversation starts, but that once it does start, one ‘talks’ and when it finishes, the other ‘responds’ with in a few seconds. Then there will be a pause for some time, then another talk/respond will occur. In all my tests, the which ever droid is the ‘talker’ remains the ‘talker’ throughout the conversation.
Do your droids have personality chips? I know that stock droids end in 201 and 202. The blue personality chip broadcasts a signal ending in A03. Do you know the others?
Both droids are stock, no personality chips.
Steven Ayers thanks!
The IOS version of "nRF Connect for Mobile" version 2.4.11 interface is very different from that shown.
Trying to set up an advertiser as shown at 5:52 however, in the IOS version "Manufacture Data" isn't on option
Can someone point me in the right direction, I've drained my battery twice now searching thru all of the options.
Currently only the Android version has the Clone and Custom Manufacturer Data for broadcast functions. Apple currently doesn't allow developers to have access to these Bluetooth Features for their own security reasons, so Nordic wasn't able to include this feature on iOS.
@@VProFX Thank you Mr. Parker for taking the time to answer.
After posting the question I noticed that it had been asked before; however, I was hoping the newer revision had included the option for iOS and I was missing it somehow...
+ Any update on the follow-up video(s)? I"ve never worked with either the Adafruit or Nordic stuff - doesn't look too hard; however, would like to see a master at work! Which would you suggest for a noob to start with? We have adopted 4 brand new droids this past month in the house that I'd love to have not only interacting with each other but also with the simulated environment of GE - WDW had so much shut down that I don't think we really had a the full experience..... the kiddos will be absolutely ecstatic to have their droids not only interacting with each other but also in their rooms, living room etc... I think the living room will be first order territory!
Hey, so I play with my droid and these signals a lot. There is one in your video that is suspected to be the new rise of the resistance ride. Is this confirmed now? I can say that my droid with the blue chip reacts uniquely to that signal. He makes sounds and movements from that signal unlike anything else. Also, I have been able to get my droid to respond to signals cloned from other droids. At this time I only have a few signals. Do you know anywhere I can find more signal data on droids?
I don't think it has been confirmed yet, I haven't been able to check myself. (I'm in California and Disneyland hasn't opened ROTR ride here yet). I plan on scanning the ride once it opens here in Disneyland Resort. Also, we have confirmed that the 3 byte in each of the beacon signals determines the sounds the droid plays when it sees that signal. So the signal for a 0x0A040402A601 would be totally different sounds then 0x0A040702A601 for example. If you want to see the list of all the signals I found so far, I list them in the video with a map at 12:35.
Vince Parker oh yes, I have followed your video closely. One thing I’ve noticed is that my droid with the blue chip doesn’t appear to play sounds from the 04 group, like, ever. Only when I broadcast the 04 signal. Also of note, you can clone the droid signals and with personality chips they end in 01,02,03,05,06,07. But not 04. What does it all mean?!? I wonder if 04 is reserved for something special. I have linked to your video from reddit many times as I would love a community to contribute to understanding droid reactions. You know how people know what droids are saying in the movies? That! I want to figure that out, you know?
Cool! Anyway to do this with an iPhone?
Apple unfortunately from what I have seen, Apple (for security reasons) doesn't allow for custom Manufacturer IDs... when you use an apple device for BLE signals it will always have a Manufacturer ID of 0x004C (Apple) ... so you won't be able to simulate a Walt Disney ID of 0x0183
I wish there was ...Apple unfortunately from what I have seen, Apple (for security reasons) doesn't allow for custom Manufacturer IDs... when you use an apple device for BLE signals it will always have a Manufacturer ID of 0x004C (Apple) ... so you won't be able to simulate a Walt Disney ID of 0x0183
Can it be used as a bluetooth speaker?
No the Droids can't receive audio through bluetooth... but the DJ R3X droid that you can buy at Droid Depot can be used as a bluetooth speaker.
Can this be done in an iPhone?
Apple unfortunately from what I have seen, Apple (for security reasons) doesn't allow for custom Manufacturer IDs... when you use an apple device for BLE signals it will always have a Manufacturer ID of 0x004C (Apple) ... so you won't be able to simulate a Walt Disney ID of 0x0183
Vince Parker 😕thanks for the reply. I guess ill keep pressing the remote’s button for now 😂hehe.
This is awesome. Thank you!