List all available Bluetooth interfaces:

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$ hciconfig -a

If you get an error like the following:

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Operation not possible due to RF-kill

You'll need to unblock access to the resource using "rfkill". You can unblock all blocked devices like so:

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$ rfkill unblock all

Before doing any iBeacon stuff you should disable scanning:

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$ hciconfig hci0 noscan

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$ hcitool -i hci0 cmd 0x08 0x0008 1E 02 01 1A 1A FF 4C 00 02 15 [ 92 77 83 0A B2 EB 49 0F A1 DD 7F E3 8C 49 2E DE ] [ 00 00 ] [ 00 00 ] C5 00
$ hcitool -i hci0 leadv

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LE set advertise enable on hci1 returned status 12