transmitting as an ibeacon

[sergethompson]

It would be great if you could switch between a receiver and a transmitter using this native code. Is a transmitting feature coming in a future push?

[zackify]

How would this be practical though? There is a demo app you can get from apple's website that will let your phone act as a beacon. On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 22:58 Serge Thompson [email protected] wrote:

It would be great if you could switch between a receiver and a transmitter using this native code Is a transmitting feature coming in a future push?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/frostney/react-native-ibeacon/issues/23.

[frostney]

@sergethompson Would you mind explaining your use case in a bit more detail?

[sergethompson]

I think it would be interesting in the case of doing something like taking attendance where one teacher(receiver) can see if all students(beacons) are there using a singular app. This would all have to be verified over a server with the specific individual uuids. I can help build it if you lead me in the right direction. I just have no idea where to start.

[zackify]

The correct way to do this would be to have a beacon in the class room, and when the beacon is in range, do a request to your server with the user's info. That way you can let teachers login and see who is in range. On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 09:32 Serge Thompson [email protected] wrote:

I think it would be interesting in the case of doing something like taking attendance where one teacher(receiver) can see if all students(beacons) are there using a singular app. This would all have to be verified over a server with the specific individual uuids. I can help build it if you lead me in the right direction. I just have no idea where to start.

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 9:31 AM, Serge Thompson [email protected] wrote:

I think it would be interesting in the case of doing something like taking attendance where one teacher(receiver) can see if all students(beacons) are there using a singular app. This would all have to be verified over a server with the specific individual uuids. I can help build it if you lead me in the right direction. I just have no idea where to start.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:59 PM, Zach Silveira < [email protected]> wrote:

How would this be practical though? There is a demo app you can get from apple's website that will let your phone act as a beacon. On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 22:58 Serge Thompson [email protected] wrote:

It would be great if you could switch between a receiver and a transmitter using this native code Is a transmitting feature coming in a future push?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/frostney/react-native-ibeacon/issues/23.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub < https://github.com/frostney/react-native-ibeacon/issues/23#issuecomment-171522272

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[sergethompson]

Thanks for the feedback. I also thought it would be cool to have a mobile solution that could be used on field trips too so I don't have to worry about always having the beacon and be able to check status all within the same app.

[zackify]

That defeats the point of a beacon at that point. It would be better to track their gps location in that case. If you ask me that's also too much of a privacy concern haha

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:32 PM Serge Thompson [email protected] wrote:

Thanks for the feedback. I also thought it would be cool to have a mobile solution that could be used on field trips too so I don't have to worry about always having the beacon and be able to check status all within the same app.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/frostney/react-native-ibeacon/issues/23#issuecomment-171732328 .

[marktyers]

Since this uses the same Apple framework as detecting iBeacons it would be a really good idea to implement. Happy to help.