Anyone know a way to get these beacons to work on Android? BeaconThings is ios only.
Also if you use these how do you adjust the area covered? BeaconThings doesn’t have an area coverage I can see.
See the following:
I have created an app that uses several tools to determine overall and precise locations within the house using beacons. This uses very little power and should be relatively simple to setup. The files are located here: https://github.com/mlebaugh/TaskerBeacons
if you have the following apps.
How this works, uses Autolocation and wifi connected to determine if you are home. Basically the same as this post This will then set a smartthings presence sensor “User Home” to present. Once the user is home the app will wait for you to walk, once you start walking it will scan for beacons. The beacon radar app reports every ping back to tasker. Tasker will not scan continuously while walking, but every few seconds. Auto tools will then average all of the pings to determine the average RSSI (reciev…
Also, you can use the Radbeacon android app to configure each individual RADBeacon’s signal strength, which is the equivalent of setting the detection field size.