Giveaway Week – GL.iNet GL-S10 BLE to MQTT Gateway

The sixth prize of this year’s Giveaway Week will be GL.iNET GL-S10 BLE to MQTT gateway based on the ESP32 microcontroller and offering Ethernet, WiFi, and Bluetooth LE connectivity.

The gateway is used to gather data from Bluetooth LE devices such as beacons and can be used in warehouses, shopping malls, airports, exhibition halls, tourist attractions, etc… for personnel management, asset management, environmental monitoring, indoor navigation, and more.

GL.inet GL-S10 review

I reviewed the ESP32-based BLE to MQTT gateway with the provided BLE beacon at the end of last year using MQTT X open-source client and the GL-S10 Tool App for Android.

It allowed me to send commands through MQTT topics, for example, to set or retrieve the beacon’s (WiFi) configuration, and receive the data through MQTT subscriptions. Some of the data include the MAC address, RSSI, ad (Broadcast data advData), and a timestamp. It took some effort to get it working, but I eventually managed.

Gl.inet GL-S10 review

The giveaway includes the gateway with its antenna and USB cable, but I’m not going to send the BLE beacon because of the non-removable 3.6V ER14250 1/2AA battery to prevent issues with customs. You can use other BLE devices for that purpose, and during testing, I received BLE messages from a smartwatch or one of my air conditioners.

To enter the draw simply leave a comment with your country and whatever else you’d like to say (no links in the body of the comment). If the country is missing, I’ll consider the entry void. Other rules are as follows:

  • Only one entry per contest. I will filter out entries with the same IP and/or email address.
  • Contests are open for 48 hours starting at 10 am (Bangkok time) every day.
  • Comments will be closed after 48 hours. If comments are open, the contest is still going on.
  • Winners will be selected with random.org, and announced in the comments section of each giveaway.
  • I’ll contact the winner by email, and I’ll expect an answer within 24 hours, or I’ll pick another winner.
  • Note that I may not be able to contact people who log in with Facebook, Twitter, or Google, so it’s better to use an email address to enter the draw.
  • Shipping
    • $14 for registered airmail small packet or ePacket for overseas shipping payable via PayPal within 48 hours once the contest (for a given product) is complete.
    • If your country does not show up in the list of supported countries, you can still play, and I’ll cover the cost of sending the parcel by Sea and Land (SAL) without registration if you win.
  • I’ll post all prizes at the same time, around the 16th of November, except for products shipped directly by companies which will be handled separately.
  • I’ll make sure we have 7 different winners, so if you have already won a device during this giveaway week, I’ll draw another person

If you don’t end up winning this giveaway, the GL-S10 Bluetooth IoT Gateway is sold for $24.99 plus shipping, or $29.99 with the BLE beacon.

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Greg Dalton
4 months ago

Greetings from Canada. 🍁😎

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4 months ago

Thanks from Brazil!

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Marc Lallier
4 months ago

Nice

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4 months ago

Hi from Vietnam!

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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Dean
4 months ago

Malaysia here!

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4 months ago

Greetings from Sweden

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4 months ago

Greetings from Sweden

Ward
4 months ago

Ward wants one of these 🙂
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Jean-François
4 months ago

Hello from France 😀

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Codrut R.
4 months ago

romania 🙂

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

Hello from Seville, Spain.
Greetings.

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

France, merci!

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4 months ago

Hello again from Australia

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Scotty
4 months ago

USA

John T
John T
4 months ago

Hi from the US!

Rob
Rob
4 months ago

Love the site
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4 months ago

Greetings from Poland!

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

Austria.
Thank you!

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4 months ago

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Magnus
Magnus
4 months ago

Hello from Finland!

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

greetings from Romania

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Matt D
4 months ago

Good day fffrom UK.

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Sandro Canavezzi
4 months ago

Thanks from Brazil

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4 months ago

Love some MQTT!

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Hong
4 months ago

USA. MQTT is very powerful.

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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Rich catena
4 months ago

Very cool…
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4 months ago

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Oliver K.
4 months ago

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Thanks

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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Robert J
4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

Hi from Canada.

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Erik
4 months ago

Hello from Sweden
this looks awesome

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Ciklops
4 months ago

Latvia

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Erick Minnie
4 months ago

South Africa
Sorry, I forgot country in previous submission.

Kovacs Robert
Kovacs Robert
4 months ago

From Hungary

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4 months ago

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Andrea Salatino
4 months ago

Hello from Italy

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Ioannis
4 months ago

It a nice wee project! Hi from Greece!

Umer
Umer
4 months ago

Hi, from uk. Use a custom solution for this using a bare esp32 dev board to expose on mqtt, my ble sensors all around the house. So this surely will be a neat and stable alternative

Martin
Martin
4 months ago

Greetings from Germany! The Gateway would be a perfect fit in my HomeAssistant+EspHome setup

LV
LV
4 months ago

United States. Interesting tech.

Vincent
Vincent
4 months ago

Hi from France

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Daniel
4 months ago

Hello from Hungary!

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4 months ago

Taiwan, Thank for giveaway.

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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I’m from Hong Kong btw

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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Goh Inn Chyun
4 months ago

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Ved Vernekar
4 months ago

Greetings from USA

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Jason
4 months ago

Ok, United States

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4 months ago

Greetings from Romania!

Christian Brandlehner
4 months ago

This seems to be a nice project to spend time on.

Greetings from Austria.

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Daniel
4 months ago

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4 months ago

Greetings from Netherlands <3

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

Bonjour de France 🙂

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Alvaro
4 months ago

Hello from Portugal !!!

Leif Nilsson
Leif Nilsson
4 months ago

Japan. Would be a nice addition to my mqtt network!

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4 months ago

Poland.

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4 months ago

I’m in from Australia 🙂

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Dennis Wollersheim
4 months ago

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4 months ago

Japan

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4 months ago

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Keith Reid
4 months ago

Thank you for this giveaway!

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Tim
4 months ago

Thanks from Germany!

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4 months ago

Guadeloupe
Hello and thanks 🙂

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4 months ago

Czech Republic.

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

Usa

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4 months ago

Ciao from Italy

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Peter
4 months ago

with greetz from Germany

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4 months ago

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Oscar
4 months ago

Hello from Austin Texas USA
Cool site, just found it via Google’s news feed.

Stanislav Vasilev
Stanislav Vasilev
4 months ago

and from Bulgaria

Timothy
Timothy
4 months ago

USA

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Ralph Edwards
4 months ago

Second Thanks from Africa…
Eswatini/Swaziland..

Interesting hardware…

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tsipizic
4 months ago

Greece

Marcin Dąbrowski
4 months ago

Poland, I do wonder how far could I go with hacking it?

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

United States (US)
Love the news coverage from CNX, please keep up the great work
Thank you!

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4 months ago

United Kingdom thank you

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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4 months ago

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