Cormacs Posted October 22, 2015 Posted October 22, 2015 I'm just curious if I'm missing something. I got iBeacons in every room my only issue is mobilinc has no ability to set distance to a particular beacon. I want to have different become trigger different rooms. The only issue is the beacons even at the lowest setting all over lap and I will be turning lights on when I'm not in that room. I wish mobilinc had a way to set triggers at a beacons particular rssi level. Or does it and I'm missing something? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
InsteonNut Posted October 22, 2015 Posted October 22, 2015 Hi Cormacs, One option we have as developers for iBeacon is to enable a ranging feature that constantly ranges the iBeacons to get at a finer grain "distance" estimate. When we tried this during development we ran into two show stoppers: 1. With this option on, the iPhone would drain it's battery in about 2 hours from a full charge. 2. The distance estimate wasn't anywhere close to reliable enough to warrant turning this on for the community. Suggestion on beam shaping your iBeacons: Put something metal between the iBeacon and where you want the RF beam to NOT propagate. While it won't fully stop RF, metal does adversely impact 2.4GHz (BT) range. Wes
Cormacs Posted October 22, 2015 Author Posted October 22, 2015 I'll play with it some more I didn't have much time last night. It's just would have been so much easier if you could say only trigger if beacon strength is -89dbm. But I guess I could see how that could be a battery hog always analyzing the bt signal Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
hart2hart Posted January 23, 2016 Posted January 23, 2016 I know this is older but I bought kontakt.io beacons (no cheap but feature rich) Their TX power can be set to fine tune and should get results being requested.
Cormacs Posted January 25, 2016 Author Posted January 25, 2016 Mine were adjustable too just unreliable. I abandoned them and went back to geofenceing Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
rafarataneneces Posted September 4, 2016 Posted September 4, 2016 Mine were adjustable too just unreliable. I abandoned them and went back to geofenceing Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Would you tell me with which iOS app you were setting up the power? I am in the same boat, I like iBeacons so far but the lack of apps is frustrating. Only one app allows me to change the settings (I want to change the power). And the app is not working.
InsteonNut Posted September 6, 2016 Posted September 6, 2016 rafarataneneces, For iBeacon specifics to the hardware, you'll need to use the manufacturer's app to make adjustments. We use and like the iBeacons and app provided by Estimote. Wes
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