Mavericks as an iBeacon

http://www.blendedcocoa.com/blog/2013/11/02/mavericks-as-an-ibeacon/

by saltcookie • 12 years ago

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johnw• 12 years ago

Does anyone know how you actually use this? I built the project and ran it then enabled Bluetooth on my Mac and iPhone somewhat expecting to receive a notification of the iBeacon but got nothing. Does it have to be coupled with an iOS app to work or can it send notifications even without an app installed?

EDIT: Figured it out - You need an iOS app as well. There's one that can locate and display iBeacon info here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/locate-for-ibeacon/id7387090...

I'm a little disappointed. The use case I had in mind was: Customer walks into a store with iBeacons and is given a notification that they tap which installs the app. I suppose this would have too much potential for abuse though.

san_dimitri2• 12 years ago

Yes you have to couple it with an app. You can use the https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/locate-for-ibeacon/id7387090... app. Just make sure you have the same UUID you gave to the mac app in your list of registered UUIDs on the iPhone.

san_dimitri2• 12 years ago

Well the notification is for the app. So I think it is not intuitive for the app to notify the customer to install itself. Did you understand what I am trying to explain?

tbdr• 12 years ago

Another free tool for iBeacon development – Beacon Scanner (OSX) http://bits.hugeinc.com/?p=613

spike021• 12 years ago

I was actually trying to figure out recently if this was possible. Could be very handy for certain app uses; I know lots of smaller stores use iMacs or other Macs for certain things.

Mavericks as an iBeacon

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