Beacons and Smarthings

[schapper05 (Jason)]

BeaconThings - Beacons and SmartThings

We’ve released another iOS app called BeaconThings! This app allows you to easily integrate iBeacons into your SmartThings smart home. Here’s how it works: You place iBeacons throughout your home/office/wherever (we like these beacons from Radius Networks) Use BeaconThings to register these beacons with SmartThings. They work just like presence sensors. The app sends updates to SmartThings when it enters/leaves the range of those beacons. Everything happens in the background. Once the beacons are registered, you never open BeaconThings again! Create SmartApps or SmartRules to make your home take actions based on these beacons. The first version of the app is available now on the App Store. This version searches for beacons with a pre-defined UUID. After discussions with early users, we …

Mobile Presence and iBeacon (discussion beginning 2015)

Hello, Would it be hard to add Bluetooth detection to the iPhone and Android apps? This really helps out a lot. I purchased a very cheap iBeacon on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Geohopper-iBeacon-with-Power-Supply/dp/B00N17AU4K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1429680236&sr=8-2&keywords=ibeacon I then created a scene with Tasker that detects when that iBeacon comes in range. Finally, I used SharpTools to set my presence detector to present() when it detects that iBeacon. In addition, I have it set away() when I am at my iBeacon at work, or when I connect to my car. My Moto X does the same thing for its Home Detection schema, and Tasker has a very rich set of options for detecting home as well. It seems like a very easy addition for SmartThings. Until then, I’ll keep using @joshua_lyon’s aw…