Agreed. See my other post above:
Has anyone been able to port this over to android? Iāve been searching for days and itās REALLY starting to piss me off the lack of support for beacons with android. This would be amazing to use it worked with android and itās exactly what Iām looking for.
The shiny new iPhone 6S has just been released - itās lovelyā¦
Come to the dark sideā¦you know you want toā¦ 
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Lol, only of I get to kill the dark side with a dual bladed light Saber.
I havenāt been paying attention to this topic, but Iām not sure that you canāt already do similar functionality with something like Tasker, SharpTools and iBeaconTaskerā¦
I think youād just need to use the iBeaconTasker plugin to see when you connect to a specific beacon, then pass that along to ST via SharpToolsā¦ whether thatās to turn on a light or run a command or even a sequence of commands.
I havenāt tried this myself but it should workā¦ Your mileage may vary of course. 
Iād love to use the Tasker plugin but it appears to be broken
Yeah, the iBeacon plugin for tasker just crashes for me, too.
I have just gotten a NRF compatible beacon in from overseas, and initial testing does work with the NRF Beacon app to trigger a tasker action, but I havenāt actually tried to integrate it and see how reliable it is, hoping to do that here in the next week or so. Downside is that the app only lets you set an action for either near, close or at beacon, not a separate one for each, which would be nice.
@obycode was there ever any progress on version 1.2 with support for multiple accounts? Is there any known workaround for a way to make it work with the current version?
Hi @chriswheat. Thanks for your interest. BeaconThings improvements have been put on the back burner for the time being as we have been working on major SmartRules and obything updates. I havenāt forgotten about BeaconThings, but it is lower priority for now. If there actually seem to be a lot of people interested and waiting for this update, then I can raise the priority again, but so far, it hasnāt gotten much attention (and I havenāt needed the enhancement for myself yet).
If anyone else is waiting for improvements to this app, please post here and let me know your needs and your use cases.
FYI, I have been able to use BeaconThings to integrate an iBeacon for reliable presence detection (along with modes, rules, and other sensors). I can use the geofence for departures but the iBeacon allows presence to trigger quickly in the garage/driveway and not two blocks from the house for arrival.
Also interested in multiple account support so a second phone can trigger the same activities.
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Thanks @obycode. Hope there are others who are still interested as it would be great for my workflow.
For me, the best solution would be one where a particular beacon shows up as a āthingā for each device that it is registered with. For example, the Front Door Beacon registered on my phone would be Front Door - Chris. The Front Door Beacon registered on my wifeās phone would be Front Door - Wife.
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Oh, Iām interested, all right, but nobody that knows Android programming has come out to help you get BeaconThings on Android yet 
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This is probably the most exciting things in the smart things community!
One more feature, any chance of a WatchOS2 app, i have my Apple Watch on me a lot more than my phone as i wonder around the house, plus its got plenty more spare battery cycles to use compared to my phone!
Thanks Dan! Iād love to make BeaconThings work on the AppleWatch, but unfortunately Apple hasnāt opened up access to Bluetooth or core location on there yet. Iām keeping a close eye on it though and once itās available, weāll make it work.
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Thats a shame, i was hoping WatchOS2 would have done that as Beecons+ seems to be using the watch to locate iBeacons or is that wrong?
Developers can make a watch app, but your proximity to the Beacon will be based on the associated phoneās proximity, not the watchās. As mentioned, for now thereās no proximity detection in the watch itself because Apple hasnāt turned one on. Probably because of battery life.
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Yeah shame really - my watch is under-used and over powered. Ive yet to have less than 60% battery at the end of the day, it could be doing my iBeacons better than my phone and take some of the load off it!
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Iāve been thinking a little more about the implementation of Beaconās into my home and a couple of problems spring to mind.
I like the idea of lights automatically turning on/off as I enter/leave a room and this seems easy enough to setup - the problem is what about when guests are round in those rooms and you leave it - you donāt want the lights to go off then. Is there an easy way to over ride?
Also iām thinking of having one near my electric gate to trigger to open automatically when I arrive. I see several issues with this - how do you stop it triggering constantly? How would I get it to trigger when I leave? I think whilst the beacon is a better way of noticing youāre home, maybe in this case, sticking with the standard remote control might be a better (albeit less magical) way to open the gates?
Well technically thatās a gimmick, because they make motion-control lights that do this that are much simpler and more reliableā¦ 
But that could probably give you the answer you need thoughā¦ you could have a motion sensor in āpopularā rooms, and if you exit the beacon range it would only shut off the lights after motion stops. Then again if youāre going to go that route, you donāt really need the beacons for presence at all.
You could also have a āparty modeā where you would ignore the whole beacon routine until youāre back to solo mode or something.
This is probably easy enough to do if you just keep track of the current state / mode. So you would only open the gate automatically if you are in āawayā mode, and doing so puts you into āhomeā mode, or something similar.
I donāt like the motion detector idea because you have to set it to monitor no movement for X amount of times to turn it off. Which means you either have the lights on for a long time whilst youāre outside the room, or you have to keep moving inside the room to reset it.
Quite like the idea of different modes that are entered though - and maybe modes could be changed by pressing something like a Flic button?
RE the gate, that makes sense, except for when youāre in āhomeā mode and you want to leaveā¦I dunno, I guess setting up a flic button to trigger or just using the original remote is better in this situation too.