Beta Betatester wanted: Estimote Location- or Proximity-Beacons needed

[DonManfred]

Hello all,

i am searching for people who own Estimote Proximity- or Location-Beacons.

I´m wrapping the Estimote SDK into a B4A Library and i am searching for peoples who want to contribute to help getinng all working.

As of today i am able to discover Proximity and Location Beacons from Estimote, getting Telemetry from the Beacons. It is also possible to connect to a ConfigureableDevice. I´m working on the possibility to Configure the Device (Beacon) and to update the settings...
work in progress...

Requirement:
- You need to have an Account on Estimote Cloud
- You need to have Estimote Proximity Beacons (*) or Estimote Location Beacons.
- You need to create an App on The Estimote Cloud to get AppID and Token. You need them to initialize the SDK.

* = Only the newest firmware (G) Models does sent Location Packets. Older Proximity Beacons only provide Proximitry Telemetry

Please answer to this thread if you want to contribute

 

[DonManfred]

Still searching for People who own Estimote-Beacons and want to contribute with Testing the Library.

As of now it is possible to
- Scan for Devices to see their Broadcasts
- Scan for Telemetry Broadcasts
- Scan for Location Broadcasts (Beacon send it´s stored Location). Note that i only have Proximity Beacons for now. I could not test all possibilities.
- Scan for Configureable Devices to be able to connect to the Beacon
- To create a Region for a Beacon which you then can Monitor.
If Monitoring is running and have Regions setup to monitor then you´ll get an Even when you
- Enter the Beaconregion
- Exit the Beacon Region
- Regions can be Setup to be a SecureRegion. Only make sense if you setup your Beacons to be a Secure Beacon (changing their UUID, Major and Minor, regularly from time to time)
- Based on the SecureRegion it does work with Secured Beacons. See Estimotedocumentation about this Setting.
- To connect to a Configureable Device
- To Read, Write Properties from/to the Beacon after it is Connected
- Reading is available for a lot of Properties (not all (work in progress))
- Writing is available only for the name (work in progress))
- To Sync the Settings with the Cloud after you changed the Value on the Beacon. After Sync you´ll see the new Values in the Estimote Cloud Dashboard.
- Getting all Beaconinformations about all your Beacons from the Cloud (using okhttp call). Only this Method is implemented for now.

Sidenotes:
- You can use Normal BeaconRegions (non Secure) too!
- You can use any Bluetooth iBeacon if you know their UUID, Major and Minor value. Even if they are not from Estimore (*1/*2). iBeacon, Eddystone Beacon for ex.
- Create a Region based on UUID, Major and Minor of your 3rd Party Beacon
- Add a Notification for this Region to the Beaconmanager.
- Start Monitoring regions
- You´ll get Events if you Enter/Exit a Beaconregion. Even if it is not a Estimote-Beacon.

*1 = Based on the fact it is not a Estimote Beacon you can not use the Beacons in the EstimoteCloud and therefor you dont get Informations about these Beacons from the Cloud.
*2 = You even can not Connect to these Beacons to Red/Write Setting with the Estimote-SDK.