iBeacons anyone?

[Joystick 2]

Hi all,

I was wondering if someone has already looked at

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for the iBeacon integration?

I mean, they have an api, and my opinion is: This is the route to go regarding presence awareness et al....

small devices, that can stick anywhere.

cheers

joystick

[Guest sztywniak]

Estimote ibeacons working with Tasker plugin

[dawiinci 5]

The iBeacon stickers look amazing. But can Fibaro HC2 detect me when I wear such a sticker?

[Dalle1985 16]

The estimotes doesn't do any reporting. So the positioning can only be done through an app on a separate device... I have a bunch of them somewhere, but because they are designed to be low power, they don't collect data and pass it on, they simply send out a mac address which can then be used to estimate a position based on the signal strength. They are basically just BLE reflectors.

I use RPis with bluetooth dongles to function as active bluetooth beacons and then a piece of custom code to take the info from the Bluez daemon and process it using triangulation, then I use that to create a three point coordinate to position a device somewhere in the house. The clever thing about this, is that you can use passive tags on your devices, keys, pets or whatever floats your boat. I use kensington proximo tags. One on the dog, one in my keys and then the phones to track me and my girlfriend. If it senses motion in a room and the dog is there, it will not trigger the lights in certain rooms, however if keys or phone is also present, it will react to motion. If no devices is present and motion is detected, it will turn on lights.

Now if estimotes could do that, they would be really clever, but seeing as they are passive, they are only of any use as an app trigger on your phone.

[dawiinci 5]

What if HC2 would poll for the beacons?

Once they are in reach, you know someone is at home.

[Dalle1985 16]

You can't poll them for anything. They simply send out a code snippet on bluetooth frequencies which is picked up by bluetooth 4.0 devices. By calibrating an app to know their positoin relative to each others, the app can estimate the position of the device.

If you have something which can pick up the BLE signal, then sure, you can use it to tell that the device is within range and thus you are home... But the HC2 doesn't have bluetooth and can't connect to the estimotes.

And if you just want to poll a device to check that it is in reach, any wifi device can do that.

[Tcheri 15]

The beacons will not interact with the HC2, but with the Fibaro mobile application. You can imagine to setup beacons in the HC2 UX and beacon setup dowloaded to Fibaro app.

When the mobile device is triggered by a beacon, the Fibaro mobile app can trigger an event/ scene/virtualdevice.

This will allow to recognise people that are present in a certain area. I see a lot of application for that in the Fibaro !

[boomx 43]

You can do it with geofancy (

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)... They support iBeacons and you call a http-URL (for starting a Scene)