Adding Manufacter Data or Changing local name

[matgiver81]

Hi there,

I’m working on an app in which in simply need to uniquely identify the beacons, my API does the rest.
I first used the Mac Address and it worked great on Android, but it is not displayed on iOS. I would have to go through iBeacon and I’d rather not to.

I didn’t find the way to edit the manufacturer data or the local name, so that I can use that to id my beacons.
Is that possible without working on the firmware ?

Other option : using Eddystone-cordova plugin. But will I be able to retreive the Namespace and Instance ID on iOS ?

Thanks !

[Scrin]

Firmware versions 2.x use data format 5 for the raw mode, which includes the MAC address in the data payload as well (Firmware versions 1.x use data format 3 for raw mode which does not include any identifiers). Maybe that’s something to try? The MAC was actally added to data format 5 because iOS prevents seeing the MAC address by normal means

[matgiver81]

Thanks @Scrin.
I updated two of my tags with both the 2.1.0 and 2.2.1 and the red led stayed on both times. The beacons seem to stay in boot mode. So I’m unable to properly read anything

Has anyone managed to update ?

[Scrin]

That’s a known issue if other firmwares have been on the tag. There’s a fix for it in the 1.x versions but it’s not yet in 2.x unfortunately. If you want to fix it yourself, you can apply this fix yourself, or wait for the next 2.x release which hopefully has this fix included as well

[matgiver81]

Alright, thanks.
I’ll wait.

Any idea when the next firmware is due ?

[otso]

Hello,

Does your bug affect all of your tags, including ones which have not run Espruino or Eddystone? I’ll try to get this fixed next week, but if something urgent comes up the bug fix will be delayed

[matgiver81]

I don’t know. I have installed at least Eddystone on all of them. Thanks for your help !