If you don’t mind being obnoxious towards everyone having nearby beacon notifications activated:
You can easily force a notification with a line about yourself and a link to your profile.
Using this guide to add Eddystone:
Zip here: https://ruu.vi/setup/packages/20170118-eddystone.zip
Apps:
nRF Connect for Mobile (used to upload zip to the ruuvi tag)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=no.nordicsemi.android.mcp
nRF Beacon for Eddystone (edit the values) the password is:
00112233445566778899aabbccddeeff
Beacon Toy (seeing the data in action)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.uriio
(pause it 1 minute 25 seconds into the video)
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no">
<title>Your name here(1st notification line)</title>
<meta name="author" content="Your name(not visible)">
<meta name="description" content="Your title (2nd notification line, not visible on all devises, some show the link instead)" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">
<!-- <meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=https://f.ruuvi.com/t/business-card-via-notification/167"> -->
<meta name="keywords" content="" />
</head>
<body>
<p>This is where you put the website that you would like to show people clicking the link.</p>
</body>
</html>
Save the blob above to a file called:
index.html and put it at the website/link/FTP where you pointed the Eddystone beacon to.
[currently needing to use the link shortener in the app to get notifications without an app]
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico">
is the icon in the notification, here it is set to favicon.ico the little website icon in tabs and bookmarks.
It is a good idea to add one, otherwise it will be a google jigsaw puzzle piece, when the goo.gl link shortener is used.
If you would rather have it redirect to an existing website, eg. LinkedIn or a company website, remove the:
<!--
and
-->
While changing the web address in between to what you want it to point to (it currently is pointing to this post)
The whole line can be removed too if you do not need it.
[EDIT: Using this link redirection will also change the title on the notification to be the title of the website redirected to)
Good for tech conferences, business meetings etc.
Be aware of it being pushy though.
Beacons are fun today because they are new and rare.
But the day stores start using them for advertisements everyone will have this feature turned off.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
Like your first electronic mail!
Remember how fantastic that was?
Look at your spam folder today.
Current problem:
Still not showing up as a notification outside of an app like the Weather station does.
[EDIT: using goo.gl shortened links (button in the “nRF Beacon for Eddystone” app)
makes notification appear without the need of an app, but it also lets google know and register it’s usage and destination)
Possible issue:
Enforced TLS encryption (HTTPS) and my test site is using a Let’s encrypt certificate?
(though Ruu.vi also use Let’s encrypt)
Please let me know if anyone get the notifications working without using the goo.gl link shortener.