Questions tagged [region-ranging]
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How to range beacons in background using Altbeacon: Android Beacon Library?
I'm developing an app which provides background Beacon monitoring. I would like to start ranging when user enters beacon from defined region. When app is in background and it's monitoring all the time and user enters my defined region I would like…
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Caveats for background iBeacon Region Ranging
Apple explicitly discourages background iBeacon Ranging:
To promote consistent results in your app, use beacon ranging only while your app is in the foreground.
If your app is in the foreground, it is likely that the device is in the user’s hand…
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Android Beacon Scanner (AltBeacon) has high latency of detecting beacons on Android 11 when internet is Off
Since it's known that scanning beacons shouldn't require an internet connection, we were expecting Android Beacon Library by AltBeacon to detect beacons the same when the device is with or without an internet connection. Unfortunately, this is not…
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locationManager didExitRegion never called for iBeaconRegion when monitor region
I've created region:
let uuid = UUID(uuidString: "04C7E2F3-42A5-5127-B066-502C8A27EB85")!
beaconRegion = CLBeaconRegion(uuid: uuid, identifier: uuid.uuidString)
And using mbeacon from terminal created beacon from my MacBook.
Creating beacon with…
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iOS - how to detect all beacons around without using UUID
I am working on iBeacons. Trying to find out all beacons around me.
Like Android, in iOS, we cannot achieve this without specifing "UUID" while searching.
By using UUID, it is working fine.
is there any better solution to search all beacons around…
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Can the amount of "ranging" iBeacon devices affect the Ranging Quality?
Short Explanation of the situation:
You have one (iOS-)iBeacon device advertising its UUID ("advertising Beacon")
You have, lets say, 10'000 Devices ranging (beacon ranging!) to see whether they are close to the (single) advertising iBeacon…
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Beacon only detected upon app restart
I'm developing an application where users will check-in to the location only when the mobile app is opened. I followed the sample code at https://altbeacon.github.io/android-beacon-library/samples.html, the beacon managed to be scanned.. only when…
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Issue in AltBeacon Monitoring and Ranging android
I am using this code for ranging and monitoring in Altbeacon
class Appclass extends Application implements BootstrapNotifier {
private RegionBootstrap regionBootstrap;
private BackgroundPowerSaver backgroundPowerSaver;
private boolean…
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AltBeacon Ranging Examples never returns a result
I'm currently working on a android app that detects nearby beacons, i'm using the AltBeacon API, i tried a modified version of the Ranging Example code given here.
Here is my code
public class MainActivity extends Activity implements BeaconConsumer…
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iBeacon: RSSI detection frequency differs in background from foreground mode. why?
During my investigation concerning the RSSI detection reliability for iBeacons, I discovered that the RSSI frequency differs extremely between foreground and background mode.
My setting:
Two beacons setup in a venue (vending machine) broadcasting…
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