https://community.onion.io/topic/771/bluetooth-add-ons-solved
that thread shows how to add bluetooth software, took up about 3MB flash.
basically opkg install obluez-libs obluez-utils

Then its a matter of using hcitool to configure the beacon. I was after an Eddystone URL beacon and found this site helpfull in setting ut up.
https://hackaday.io/project/10314-raspberry-pi-3-as-an-eddystone-url-beacon

That last page also had a link to a tool to generate the the beacon advertising data. Keep in mind the URL length is limited to 20(?) characters, but there are special characters for common prefix and suffixes, like http:// and .com etc. So I ended up with adding the commands to my rc.local file as shown below, and upon boot the beacon is started.

Other types of beacons (ibeacon etc) just requires a diffent hcitool command with different beacons settings.

root@Omega-2194:~# cat /etc/rc.local
# Put your custom commands here that should be executed once
# the system init finished. By default this file does nothing.

hciconfig hci0 up
hciconfig hci0 leadv 3
hcitool -i hci0 cmd 0x08 0x0008 1e 02 01 06 03 03 aa fe 16 16 aa fe 10 00 02 65 6e 6c 69 67 68 74 65 6e 65 64 2e 74 69 70 73 00

exit 0

Thanks for the detailed reply. I went with option 3 and managed to fit some 0805 onto the 0603 pads and it works as expected. Thanks again.

lede merged back with openwrt recently with most of the stuff going back under openwrt branding i think - havent payed superclose attention though

Firstly I'm partly sorry for reviving the old thread; but I've butted my head against this same problem.

@onion can you fix your documentation so we can track these changes and make the necessary adjustments to our boards? Suggesting simply buying the mini dock 2 when there is no such item for sale isn't making this any less frustrating. I must admit I had completely forgotten about these things until I was looking to replace Hi-link RM04 modules, their next model was pretty much identical and I saw an opportunity to get my work to support the open source community ... but when I couldn't even get a serial connection going after an hour the powers to be pulled the plug. However I'd still like to sort this out for my own use.

I borrowed the rewards from a friend who also backed the 2 and 2+ and his dock is identical to mine. Neither work.

seems strange to not have a note/link about this on the getting started that you end up from the front page.

default key 12345678
docs https://docs.onion.io/omega2-docs/first-time-setup.html#first-time-setup

So my Omega2 showed up the other day, tried to connect to it today. Shows up as a WiFi network Omega-XXXX but it is encrypted out of the box, I must have missed some information here?

So I hook it up to the mini dock from my first gen Omega and wait for the serial driver to install, connect to COM7 @ 115200 baud, but nothing. Reboot the device and no console output what so ever?

Is there a different https://wiki.onion.io/Get-Started for the Omega2?

Being the marketing guy, do you think its likely that Onion will expand the Omega line into low power bluetooth devices, and setting the stage for having the existing Omegas act as Bluetooth LE 6LoWPAN router toward low power devices?

Aye, I've tried several usb drives, two cameras and a few usb hubs; there is zero response from the devices, nor any entries in the dmesg output for having plugged devices in or out. I've also borrowed a different dock (stil waiting for my battery dock to arrive) and same results with another dock. It was literally just sitting on my desk minding its own business, broadcasting an eddystone URL over bluetooth when the broadcasts stopped without any other adverse effects to the Omega board.

Ah, but its a moot point I guess, pretty sure it arrived more than 35 days ago; so guess its going in the bin and I'll wait for the Omega2s to arrive. At least I have a dock though!

Have been using the Onion the last few days as a BLE beacon, but suddenly it stopped broadcasting. I assumed it was the BLE dongle, but it seems the USB controller just died while just sitting there. Dongle works on other devices, and I've borrowed another dock and same result.

Suggestion on how to determine if its a hardware or software failure? I doubt its a software issue as I've tried a factory reset and there wasn't really any changes made to the software when it stopped working.

/b

edit: adding information as per guidelines.

Fimware Ω-ware: 0.1.4 b330

Software packages

root@Omega-2194:~# opkg list
Onion-Console - 0.1-1
alsa-lib - 1.0.28-1
avahi-daemon-service-http - 0.6.31-12
avahi-daemon-service-ssh - 0.6.31-12
avahi-dbus-daemon - 0.6.31-12
base-files - 157.2-r49398
block-mount - 2016-01-10-96415afecef35766332067f4205ef3b2c7561d21
busybox - 1.23.2-1
ca-certificates - 20150426
dbus - 1.9.14-1
device-client - 0.6-1
dnsmasq - 2.73-1
dropbear - 2015.67-1
fast-gpio - 0.1-1
firewall - 2015-07-27
fstools - 2016-01-10-96415afecef35766332067f4205ef3b2c7561d21
glib2 - 2.43.4-1
gpioctl-sysfs - 0.0.6-1
hostapd-common - 2015-03-25-1
i2c-exp-ubus - 0.4-1
i2c-tools - 3.0.3-1
ip6tables - 1.4.21-1
iptables - 1.4.21-1
iw - 4.3-1
iwinfo - 2015-06-01-ade8b1b299cbd5748db1acf80dd3e9f567938371
jshn - 2015-11-08-10429bccd0dc5d204635e110a7a8fae7b80d16cb
jsonfilter - 2014-06-19-cdc760c58077f44fc40adbbe41e1556a67c1b9a9
kernel - 3.18.36-1-ef1ed2b992e0d231323211df2a4688f1
kmod-ath - 3.18.36+2016-01-10-1
kmod-ath9k - 3.18.36+2016-01-10-1
kmod-ath9k-common - 3.18.36+2016-01-10-1
kmod-bluetooth - 3.18.36-1
kmod-cfg80211 - 3.18.36+2016-01-10-1
kmod-crypto-aead - 3.18.36-1
kmod-crypto-aes - 3.18.36-1
kmod-crypto-arc4 - 3.18.36-1
kmod-crypto-core - 3.18.36-1
kmod-crypto-ecb - 3.18.36-1
kmod-crypto-hash - 3.18.36-1
kmod-crypto-manager - 3.18.36-1
kmod-crypto-pcompress - 3.18.36-1
kmod-dma-buf - 3.18.36-1
kmod-fs-ext4 - 3.18.36-1
kmod-fs-msdos - 3.18.36-1
kmod-fs-ntfs - 3.18.36-1
kmod-fs-vfat - 3.18.36-1
kmod-gpio-button-hotplug - 3.18.36-1
kmod-gpio-irq - 3.18.36-1
kmod-hid - 3.18.36-1
kmod-hid-generic - 3.18.36-1
kmod-i2c-algo-bit - 3.18.36-1
kmod-i2c-core - 3.18.36-1
kmod-i2c-gpio - 3.18.36-1
kmod-i2c-gpio-custom - 3.18.36-2
kmod-input-core - 3.18.36-1
kmod-input-evdev - 3.18.36-1
kmod-input-uinput - 3.18.36-1
kmod-ip6tables - 3.18.36-1
kmod-ipt-conntrack - 3.18.36-1
kmod-ipt-core - 3.18.36-1
kmod-ipt-nat - 3.18.36-1
kmod-ipv6 - 3.18.36-1
kmod-leds-gpio - 3.18.36-1
kmod-ledtrig-default-on - 3.18.36-1
kmod-ledtrig-gpio - 3.18.36-1
kmod-ledtrig-heartbeat - 3.18.36-1
kmod-ledtrig-morse - 3.18.36-1
kmod-ledtrig-netdev - 3.18.36-1
kmod-ledtrig-netfilter - 3.18.36-1
kmod-ledtrig-oneshot - 3.18.36-1
kmod-ledtrig-timer - 3.18.36-1
kmod-ledtrig-transient - 3.18.36-1
kmod-ledtrig-usbdev - 3.18.36-1
kmod-lib-crc-ccitt - 3.18.36-1
kmod-lib-crc16 - 3.18.36-1
kmod-mac80211 - 3.18.36+2016-01-10-1
kmod-nf-conntrack - 3.18.36-1
kmod-nf-conntrack6 - 3.18.36-1
kmod-nf-ipt - 3.18.36-1
kmod-nf-ipt6 - 3.18.36-1
kmod-nf-nat - 3.18.36-1
kmod-nf-nathelper - 3.18.36-1
kmod-nls-base - 3.18.36-1
kmod-nls-cp437 - 3.18.36-1
kmod-nls-iso8859-1 - 3.18.36-1
kmod-ppp - 3.18.36-1
kmod-pppoe - 3.18.36-1
kmod-pppox - 3.18.36-1
kmod-scsi-core - 3.18.36-1
kmod-slhc - 3.18.36-1
kmod-sound-core - 3.18.36-1
kmod-spi-bitbang - 3.18.36-1
kmod-spi-dev - 3.18.36-1
kmod-spi-gpio - 3.18.36-1
kmod-spi-gpio-custom - 3.18.36-1
kmod-usb-acm - 3.18.36-1
kmod-usb-audio - 3.18.36-1
kmod-usb-core - 3.18.36-1
kmod-usb-hid - 3.18.36-1
kmod-usb-printer - 3.18.36-1
kmod-usb-serial - 3.18.36-1
kmod-usb-serial-ch341 - 3.18.36-1
kmod-usb-serial-cp210x - 3.18.36-1
kmod-usb-serial-ftdi - 3.18.36-1
kmod-usb-serial-pl2303 - 3.18.36-1
kmod-usb-storage - 3.18.36-1
kmod-usb-storage-extras - 3.18.36-1
kmod-usb2 - 3.18.36-1
kmod-video-core - 3.18.36-1
kmod-video-uvc - 3.18.36-1
kmod-video-videobuf2 - 3.18.36-1
kmod-w1 - 3.18.36-1
kmod-w1-gpio-custom - 3.18.36-3
kmod-w1-master-gpio - 3.18.36-1
kmod-w1-slave-therm - 3.18.36-1
libattr - 20150220-1
libavahi-dbus-support - 0.6.31-12
libavahi-nodbus-support - 0.6.31-12
libblobmsg-json - 2015-11-08-10429bccd0dc5d204635e110a7a8fae7b80d16cb
libc - 0.9.33.2-1
libcurl - 7.40.0-3.2
libdaemon - 0.14-5
libdbus - 1.9.14-1
libelf1 - 0.161-1
libevent2 - 2.0.22-1
libexpat - 2.1.0-3
libffi - 3.0.13-1
libftdi1 - 1.2-3
libgcc - 4.8-linaro-1
libical - 1.0-1
libip4tc - 1.4.21-1
libip6tc - 1.4.21-1
libiwinfo - 2015-06-01-ade8b1b299cbd5748db1acf80dd3e9f567938371
libjpeg - 9a-1
libjson-c - 0.12-1
libjson-script - 2015-11-08-10429bccd0dc5d204635e110a7a8fae7b80d16cb
libncurses - 5.9-2
libnl-tiny - 0.1-4
liboniondebug - 0.4-1
libonioni2c - 0.4-1
libonionmcp23008 - 0.4-1
libonionoledexp - 0.4-1
libonionpwmexp - 0.4-1
libonionrelayexp - 0.4-1
libopenssl - 1.0.2h-1
libpcre - 8.39-1
libpolarssl - 1.3.14-1
libpopt - 1.16-1
libpthread - 0.9.33.2-1
libreadline - 6.3-1
librt - 0.9.33.2-1
libsndfile - 1.0.25-2
libspeexdsp - 1.2rc1-1
libstdcpp - 4.8-linaro-1
libubox - 2015-11-08-10429bccd0dc5d204635e110a7a8fae7b80d16cb
libubus - 2015-05-25-f361bfa5fcb2daadf3b160583ce665024f8d108e
libuci - 2015-08-27.1-1
libugpio - 0.0.6-1
libusb-1.0 - 1.0.19-1
libusb-compat - 0.1.4-1
libxtables - 1.4.21-1
logd - 2015-11-22-c086167a0154745c677f8730a336ea9cf7d71031
mjpg-streamer - r182-7
mtd - 21
netifd - 2015-12-16-245527193e90906451be35c2b8e972b8712ea6ab
obluez-libs - 5.30-1
obluez-utils - 5.30-1
odhcp6c - 2015-07-29-dc186d6d2b0dd4ad23ca5fc69c00e81f796ff6d9
odhcpd - 2015-11-19-01d3f9d64486ac1daa144848944e877e7f0cb762
oled-exp - 0.4-1
onion-helper - 0.1-1
onion-repo-keys - 0.1-1
onion-sh-lib - 0.1-1
onion-ubus - 0.1-1
opkg - 9c97d5ecd795709c8584e972bfdf3aee3a5b846d-9
oupgrade - 0.1-1
ppp - 2.4.7-6
ppp-mod-pppoe - 2.4.7-6
procd - 2015-10-29.1-d5fddd91b966424bb63e943e789704d52382cc18
pwm-exp - 0.4-1
relay-exp - 0.4-1
rpcd - 2016-06-30-23417e94d25570e6d62542bac46edd51e8e0243a
rpcd-mod-file - 2016-06-30-23417e94d25570e6d62542bac46edd51e8e0243a
rpcd-mod-iwinfo - 2016-06-30-23417e94d25570e6d62542bac46edd51e8e0243a
rpcd-mod-rpcsys - 2016-06-30-23417e94d25570e6d62542bac46edd51e8e0243a
rsync - 3.1.1-2
sbc - 1.3-1
shellinabox - 2.10-1
swconfig - 10
terminfo - 5.9-2
tmux - 1.9a-1
uboot-envtools - 2014.10-2
ubox - 2015-11-22-c086167a0154745c677f8730a336ea9cf7d71031
ubus - 2015-05-25-f361bfa5fcb2daadf3b160583ce665024f8d108e
ubusd - 2015-05-25-f361bfa5fcb2daadf3b160583ce665024f8d108e
uci - 2015-08-27.1-1
uclibcxx - 0.2.4-1
udev - 173-1
uhttpd - 2015-11-08-fe01ef3f52adae9da38ef47926cd50974af5d6b7
uhttpd-mod-ubus - 2015-11-08-fe01ef3f52adae9da38ef47926cd50974af5d6b7
usign - 2015-05-08-cf8dcdb8a4e874c77f3e9a8e9b643e8c17b19131
vsftpd - 3.0.2-4.1
vsftpd-tls - 3.0.2-4.1
wdb40 - 0.2-1
wget - 1.17.1-1
wpad-mini - 2015-03-25-1
zlib - 1.2.8-1
root@Omega-2194:~#

dmesg for good measure:

root@Omega-2194:~# dmesg
[    0.000000] Linux version 3.18.36 (zh@ci-onion) (gcc version 4.8.3 (OpenWrt/Linaro GCC 4.8-2014.04 r49398) ) #1 Fri Jul 8 19:37:15 UTC 2016
[    0.000000] MyLoader: sysp=b9606524, boardp=3d5200cc, parts=02ed90e1
[    0.000000] bootconsole [early0] enabled
[    0.000000] CPU0 revision is: 00019374 (MIPS 24Kc)
[    0.000000] SoC: Atheros AR9330 rev 1
[    0.000000] Determined physical RAM map:
[    0.000000]  memory: 04000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
[    0.000000] Initrd not found or empty - disabling initrd
[    0.000000] Zone ranges:
[    0.000000]   Normal   [mem 0x00000000-0x03ffffff]
[    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x00000000-0x03ffffff]
[    0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x00000000-0x03ffffff]
[    0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 16384
[    0.000000] free_area_init_node: node 0, pgdat 80362120, node_mem_map 81000000
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 128 pages used for memmap
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
[    0.000000]   Normal zone: 16384 pages, LIFO batch:3
[    0.000000] Primary instruction cache 64kB, VIPT, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
[    0.000000] Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, VIPT, cache aliases, linesize 32 bytes
[    0.000000] pcpu-alloc: s0 r0 d32768 u32768 alloc=1*32768
[    0.000000] pcpu-alloc: [0] 0
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 16256
[    0.000000] Kernel command line:  board=ONION-OMEGA  console=ttyATH0,115200 rootfstype=squashfs,jffs2 noinitrd
[    0.000000] PID hash table entries: 256 (order: -2, 1024 bytes)
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[    0.000000] Writing ErrCtl register=00000000
[    0.000000] Readback ErrCtl register=00000000
[    0.000000] Memory: 60880K/65536K available (2511K kernel code, 132K rwdata, 532K rodata, 272K init, 188K bss, 4656K reserved)
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=32, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS:83
[    0.000000] Clocks: CPU:400.000MHz, DDR:400.000MHz, AHB:200.000MHz, Ref:25.000MHz
[    0.000000] Calibrating delay loop... 265.42 BogoMIPS (lpj=1327104)
[    0.080000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.080000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.090000] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.100000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[    0.100000] MIPS: machine is Onion Omega
[    0.370000] Switched to clocksource MIPS
[    0.370000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[    0.380000] TCP established hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.380000] TCP bind hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.380000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 1024 bind 1024)
[    0.390000] TCP: reno registered
[    0.390000] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.400000] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
[    0.410000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[    0.410000] PCI: CLS 0 bytes, default 32
[    0.410000] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: -1, 3072 bytes)
[    0.430000] squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
[    0.430000] jffs2: version 2.2 (NAND) (SUMMARY) (LZMA) (RTIME) (CMODE_PRIORITY) (c) 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc.
[    0.440000] msgmni has been set to 118
[    0.440000] io scheduler noop registered
[    0.450000] io scheduler deadline registered (default)
[    0.450000] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 1 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
[    0.460000] ar933x-uart: ttyATH0 at MMIO 0x18020000 (irq = 11, base_baud = 1562500) is a AR933X UART
[    0.470000] console [ttyATH0] enabled
[    0.470000] bootconsole [early0] disabled
[    0.480000] m25p80 spi0.0: found w25q128, expected m25p80
[    0.490000] m25p80 spi0.0: w25q128 (16384 Kbytes)
[    0.490000] 5 tp-link partitions found on MTD device spi0.0
[    0.500000] Creating 5 MTD partitions on "spi0.0":
[    0.500000] 0x000000000000-0x000000020000 : "u-boot"
[    0.510000] 0x000000020000-0x000000138e4c : "kernel"
[    0.510000] 0x000000138e4c-0x000000ff0000 : "rootfs"
[    0.520000] mtd: device 2 (rootfs) set to be root filesystem
[    0.520000] 1 squashfs-split partitions found on MTD device rootfs
[    0.530000] 0x000000890000-0x000000ff0000 : "rootfs_data"
[    0.540000] 0x000000ff0000-0x000001000000 : "art"
[    0.540000] 0x000000020000-0x000000ff0000 : "firmware"
[    0.580000] libphy: ag71xx_mdio: probed
[    1.170000] ag71xx ag71xx.0: connected to PHY at ag71xx-mdio.1:04 [uid=004dd041, driver=Generic PHY]
[    1.180000] eth0: Atheros AG71xx at 0xb9000000, irq 4, mode:MII
[    1.180000] TCP: cubic registered
[    1.180000] NET: Registered protocol family 17
[    1.190000] bridge: automatic filtering via arp/ip/ip6tables has been deprecated. Update your scripts to load br_netfilter if you need this.
[    1.200000] 8021q: 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8
[    1.210000] VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly on device 31:2.
[    1.220000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 272K (8037c000 - 803c0000)
[    2.760000] init: Console is alive
[    2.760000] init: - watchdog -
[    5.890000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[    5.890000] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[    5.900000] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[    5.960000] SCSI subsystem initialized
[    5.970000] ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
[    5.970000] ehci-platform: EHCI generic platform driver
[    5.980000] ehci-platform ehci-platform: EHCI Host Controller
[    5.980000] ehci-platform ehci-platform: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
[    5.990000] ehci-platform ehci-platform: irq 3, io mem 0x1b000000
[    6.020000] ehci-platform ehci-platform: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00
[    6.020000] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[    6.020000] hub 1-0:1.0: 1 port detected
[    6.030000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[    6.870000] init: - preinit -
[    7.650000] random: procd urandom read with 12 bits of entropy available
[   10.820000] mount_root: loading kmods from internal overlay
[   11.220000] jffs2: notice: (338) jffs2_build_xattr_subsystem: complete building xattr subsystem, 0 of xdatum (0 unchecked, 0 orphan) and 0 of xref (0 dead, 0 orphan) found.
[   11.240000] block: attempting to load /tmp/jffs_cfg/upper/etc/config/fstab
[   11.250000] block: extroot: not configured
[   11.350000] jffs2: notice: (335) jffs2_build_xattr_subsystem: complete building xattr subsystem, 0 of xdatum (0 unchecked, 0 orphan) and 0 of xref (0 dead, 0 orphan) found.
[   11.370000] mount_root: loading kmods from internal overlay
[   11.570000] block: attempting to load /tmp/jffs_cfg/upper/etc/config/fstab
[   11.580000] block: extroot: not configured
[   11.590000] mount_root: switching to jffs2 overlay
[   11.660000] procd: - early -
[   11.660000] procd: - watchdog -
[   12.500000] procd: - ubus -
[   13.510000] procd: - init -
[   16.430000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[   16.450000] ntfs: driver 2.1.31 [Flags: R/O MODULE].
[   16.520000] ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[   16.550000] i2c /dev entries driver
[   16.550000] Custom GPIO-based I2C driver version 0.1.1
[   16.560000] i2c-gpio i2c-gpio.0: using pins 21 (SDA) and 20 (SCL)
[   16.600000] Linux video capture interface: v2.00
[   16.630000] hidraw: raw HID events driver (C) Jiri Kosina
[   16.750000] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.19
[   16.750000] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[   16.750000] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[   16.760000] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[   16.760000] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[   16.770000] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
[   16.780000] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
[   16.780000] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
[   16.790000] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
[   16.790000] usbcore: registered new interface driver btusb
[   16.800000] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_acm
[   16.810000] cdc_acm: USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters
[   16.820000] Loading modules backported from Linux version v4.4-rc5-1913-gc8fdf68
[   16.830000] Backport generated by backports.git backports-20151218-0-g2f58d9d
[   16.840000] Bluetooth: HCI UART driver ver 2.2
[   16.840000] Bluetooth: HCI H4 protocol initialized
[   16.850000] Bluetooth: HCI BCSP protocol initialized
[   16.860000] Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.2
[   16.860000] Bluetooth: HIDP socket layer initialized
[   16.870000] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
[   16.890000] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (955 buckets, 3820 max)
[   16.940000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[   16.940000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[   16.940000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
[   16.970000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-alauda
[   16.980000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-cypress
[   16.980000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-datafab
[   16.990000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-freecom
[   17.000000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-isd200
[   17.010000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-jumpshot
[   17.020000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-karma
[   17.030000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-sddr09
[   17.030000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-sddr55
[   17.040000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ums-usbat
[   17.050000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
[   17.060000] usbhid: USB HID core driver
[   17.070000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
[   17.080000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial
[   17.090000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic
[   17.090000] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for generic
[   17.110000] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[   17.120000] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)
[   17.130000] Driver for 1-wire Dallas network protocol.
[   17.160000] xt_time: kernel timezone is -0000
[   17.230000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ch341
[   17.230000] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for ch341-uart
[   17.240000] usbcore: registered new interface driver cp210x
[   17.250000] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for cp210x
[   17.250000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ftdi_sio
[   17.260000] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for FTDI USB Serial Device
[   17.390000] usbcore: registered new interface driver pl2303
[   17.390000] usbserial: USB Serial support registered for pl2303
[   17.400000] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
[   17.410000] NET: Registered protocol family 24
[   17.430000] usbcore: registered new interface driver snd-usb-audio
[   17.520000] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x0
[   17.520000] ath: EEPROM indicates default country code should be used
[   17.520000] ath: doing EEPROM country->regdmn map search
[   17.520000] ath: country maps to regdmn code: 0x3a
[   17.520000] ath: Country alpha2 being used: US
[   17.520000] ath: Regpair used: 0x3a
[   17.530000] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[   17.540000] ieee80211 phy0: Atheros AR9330 Rev:1 mem=0xb8100000, irq=2
[   30.810000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0-1: link is not ready
[   31.710000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   35.270000] wlan0: authenticate with xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[   35.290000] wlan0: send auth to xxxxxxxxxxxxx(try 1/3)
[   35.300000] wlan0: authenticated
[   35.340000] wlan0: associate with xxxxxxxxxxxxx (try 1/3)
[   35.350000] wlan0: RX AssocResp from xxxxxxxxxxxxx (capab=0x11 status=0 aid=7)
[   35.350000] wlan0: associated
[   35.360000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[   35.400000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0-1: link becomes ready
[   38.770000] wlan0: deauthenticating from xxxxxxxxxxxxx by local choice (Reason: 3=DEAUTH_LEAVING)
[   39.710000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   39.750000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[   44.910000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0-1: link is not ready
[   45.200000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   46.990000] wlan0: authenticate with xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[   47.010000] wlan0: send auth to xxxxxxxxxxxxx (try 1/3)
[   47.020000] wlan0: authenticated
[   47.040000] wlan0: associate with xxxxxxxxxxxxx (try 1/3)
[   47.040000] wlan0: RX AssocResp from xxxxxxxxxxxxx (capab=0x11 status=0 aid=7)
[   47.050000] wlan0: associated
[   47.050000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[   47.100000] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0-1: link becomes ready
[   56.720000] random: nonblocking pool is initialized

https://community.onion.io/topic/771/bluetooth-add-ons-solved
that thread shows how to add bluetooth software, took up about 3MB flash.
basically opkg install obluez-libs obluez-utils

Then its a matter of using hcitool to configure the beacon. I was after an Eddystone URL beacon and found this site helpfull in setting ut up.
https://hackaday.io/project/10314-raspberry-pi-3-as-an-eddystone-url-beacon

That last page also had a link to a tool to generate the the beacon advertising data. Keep in mind the URL length is limited to 20(?) characters, but there are special characters for common prefix and suffixes, like http:// and .com etc. So I ended up with adding the commands to my rc.local file as shown below, and upon boot the beacon is started.

Other types of beacons (ibeacon etc) just requires a diffent hcitool command with different beacons settings.

root@Omega-2194:~# cat /etc/rc.local
# Put your custom commands here that should be executed once
# the system init finished. By default this file does nothing.

hciconfig hci0 up
hciconfig hci0 leadv 3
hcitool -i hci0 cmd 0x08 0x0008 1e 02 01 06 03 03 aa fe 16 16 aa fe 10 00 02 65 6e 6c 69 67 68 74 65 6e 65 64 2e 74 69 70 73 00

exit 0