Ruuvi Tag not recognized as iBeacon

Products & Services šŸ‡¬šŸ‡§ RuuviTag & RuuviTag Pro Sensors
#1

Iā€™ve tried the weather app and it worked instantly. The completed product also feels very nice! Congrats on all your hard work!

On your website thereā€™s a statement that says: ā€œThe device can act as a standard Eddystoneā„¢ / iBeacon proximity beacon, but it has potential to be so much more.ā€
I have an app called Tour (on iOS) which is capable to recognize iBeacons in order to start tracking business car trips. Unfortunately the app doesnā€™t seem to properly recognize the Ruuvi Tag as iBeacon.
So Iā€™m wondering, does the default weather app firmware support the iBeacon protocol or do I have to use a different firmware. And if so, which one.

Thank you very much for your help.

#2

Nice to hear RuuviTag worked out of the box!

The Weather Station firmware uses Eddystone beacon protocol, not iBeacon. Check the documentation for more info: https://ruu.vi/setup

Actually, we didnā€™t yet release tools for easy iBeacon configuration. Itā€™s an upcoming feature.

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#3

Thank you very much for the quick response.
Is there any approximate date for iBeacon support?

#4

Depends on your use case, ā€œQuick ā€˜nā€™ Dirtyā€ can be done quickly by having random UUIDs. If you need a configuration service or a specific major UUID and continuous minor UUIDs please PM me.

I think distributing iBeacon firmware requires license from Apple, @lauri do we have a valid license?

#5

Hi,

Any update on the iBeacon support? Iā€™m looking at how I can put my own UUID for iBeacon

Chris

#6

Hello,

Fastest way to configure your own IBeacon UUID would be to use the Espruino-package kindly provided by Espruino project.

You can install Espruino using either package on Espruino website or on ruu.vi/setup .

The IBeacon example runs as is on RuuviTag.
Please ask any questions related to Espruino on RuuviTag on our forum, as it helps all RuuviTag users to find the topic.

#7

Hi @otso,

Thanks for the link. Itā€™s all working perfectly.
Note for anyone else reading: Donā€™t forget to disconnect the Espruino IDE otherwise the tag wonā€™t start transmitting :slight_smile:

Ticklos

#8

Hi!

Can you use Ruuvi as Eddystone and iBeacon simultaneously ?

#9

Should be no problem with Espruino. But I donā€™t have script to share. Check also their forum:

http://forum.espruino.com/

#10

Yes, you can by using NRF.setAdvertising directly and passing an array of services to activate.

var iBeaconConfig = {
    uuid : [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], // ibeacon uuid
    major : 0x0001, // optional
    minor : 0x0001, // optional
    rssi : -59 // optional RSSI at 1 meter distance in dBm
}
var eddystoneURL = "yoururl.com/path"

NRF.setAdvertising([
    require("ble_ibeacon").get(iBeaconConfig),
    require("ble_eddystone").get(eddystoneURL)
], {interval:100});

For some reason, at first the ble_ibeacon module didnā€™t work for me, but now it does. Tested with the latest ā€œbleeding edgeā€ release from 2017-11-03 of Espruino.

Hope this helps.

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#11

Many thanks for quick hint! I will give it a try.