# Owntracks Beacon

**URL:** https://f.ruuvi.com/t/owntracks-beacon/537
**Category:** 🇬🇧 Development projects with Ruuvi products
**Created:** [22 July 2017 16:43 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/owntracks-beacon/537 "2017-07-22T16:43:36Z")
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### Author: ![id](https://f.ruuvi.com/user_avatar/f.ruuvi.com/id/32/159_2.png) [@id](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/id)
#### Post date: [22 July 2017 16:43 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/owntracks-beacon/537/1 "2017-07-22T16:43:36Z")

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Is anyone using this as an [Owntracks Beacon](http://owntracks.org/booklet/guide/beacons/)? Can you lead me in the right direction for that?

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### Author: ![otso](https://f.ruuvi.com/user_avatar/f.ruuvi.com/otso/32/1651_2.png) [@otso](https://f.ruuvi.com/u/otso)
#### Post date: [24 July 2017 09:38 UTC](https://f.ruuvi.com/t/owntracks-beacon/537/2 "2017-07-24T09:38:38Z")

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It looks like that Owntracks would require iBeacon format, which is poorly supported By RuuviTag at this time (you’d need to compile the package from sources, generate distribution package etc.). We might implement iBeacon in future, but it’s not on our roadmap right now. Alternatively you could look into ways of using Eddystone beacon format with Owntracks, as there is a ready package for Eddystone on RuuviTag.

If you’re comfortable with C, you can get started on iBeacons with [https://github.com/ruuvi/ruuvitag\_fw/tree/master/ruuvi\_examples/ble\_app\_beacon](https://github.com/ruuvi/ruuvitag_fw/tree/master/ruuvi_examples/ble_app_beacon).