I have Hass running on an RPi3 at home, not doing much at the moment though.

Hardware

RPi3 type B

Software

I'm running Hass.io because it's easymode.

Beaconing

General notes: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/04/30/ibeacons-part-1-making-presence-detection-work-better/

So it can do some interesting things, but it's especially good for presence detection and the like.

There's a bunch of libraries for supporting it in various forms, etc:

• https://www.home-assistant.io/components/sensor.eddystone_temperature/

• https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/04/30/ibeacons-part-1-making-presence-detection-work-better/

• https://developers.google.com/beacons/eddystone#beacon_manufacturers

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Bluetooth_Beacon

• https://shop.ruuvi.com/product/ruuvitag/

• https://github.com/beaconinside/awesome-beacon