Beacon - An app for presence detection using BLE beacons

[OH2TH]

See earlier post in this topic about the situation with Airtags:

Beacon - An app for presence detection using BLE beacons

This is an interesting question. The short answer is: The AirTags (and recent Tiles) send out some BLE signal but that signal changes from time to time so it cannot be used straigthforwardly for identifying the device. The long answer is: A beacon is a simple device that constantly emits the same identifier as a Bluetooth signal. Furthermore, all communication with a beacon happens “in the clear” and isn’t encrypted. Anyone can listen to your beacon and captures your beacons’ identifier. H…

[Pat_M]

Thank you for clarifying this! Short answer then is that I jumped on the wrong horse ha ha (I was sure Airtag would work, so I didn’t really check)… Well, any suggestions for best beacon (will only be used for Home/Away presence) in respect to size and price (and battery life)?

Thanks!

[Peter_Kawa]

Feasycom? Pls search this topic for it.
Seen at Ali’s for around €22

[Pat_M]

Thanks Peter, I just bought one from AliExpress, hope the battery time is as promised!

[Cyril]

@Koktail I try your app on my new HP2023 and it don’t work (official 2.3.2 and test 2.3.5 versions) :

I have 2 Nut mini, that works like a charm with 2.3.2 on HP2019
This one is detected when I “add” it to HP2023
but the status is never updated :

Thanks

[Peter_Kawa]

Is your Homey 23 firmware higher than xxx.rc.40?

[Cyril]

Yes it’s the rc62

[Peter_Kawa]

Below are the Ble updates in the firmwares, so I suggest you inform Athom also about this issue.

v10.0.0-rc.40

Bluetooth LE

• Improved stability.
• Added support for notifications.
• Added support for disconnect events.

v10.0.0-rc.37

Bluetooth

• Added preliminary support for ManagerBLE.
  Note: BLECharacteristic.subscribeToNotifications is not yet available.
  Note: disconnect events are not yet sent to the app.

v10.0.0-rc.2

• Improved the Bluetooth Advertisements interval.

[KvM]

I have exactly the same issue, I connected my 3 beacons (2x tile, 1x Ali-express), using those for years already on Homey Pro 2019 (and 2016), but they won’t get detected at all:

[Koktail]

The app does not work like on the HP16 and HP19 because the BLE on the HP23 is not stable yet.

[Sharkys]

I hope / let’s hope it will not take them this time…2 years or so ?