# \[Tutorial\] Presence detection with bluetooth beacon **URL:** \ **Category:** Tutorials\ **Tags:** tutorial\ **Created:** [November 1, 2018, 12:00pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536 "2018-11-01T12:00:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Thomas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/thomas/32/7888_2.png) [@Thomas](https://community.homey.app/u/Thomas)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 8:24pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/22 "2018-11-04T20:24:40Z")
I’ve tried without the Tile-app. Still disappears after a while. ---
**Author:** ![Jeroen\_Somhorst](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jeroen_somhorst/32/184_2.png) [@Jeroen\_Somhorst](https://community.homey.app/u/Jeroen_Somhorst)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 9:05pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/23 "2018-11-04T21:05:55Z")
> [@Thomas](#): > > Thanks for the reply. I have removed it and added it again. It still disappears after a while. If I push the button on the tile it appears again. Probably something I am doing wrong. same here ---
**Author:** ![Marcel\_Wolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcel_wolf/32/8087_2.png) [@Marcel\_Wolf](https://community.homey.app/u/Marcel_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2018, 9:46pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/24 "2018-11-04T21:46:32Z")
Just bought the TIle mate. Also the same problem. After 1 minute Homey says the Tile is not detected anymore. In the Tile app it is still visible. ---
**Author:** ![Koktail](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/koktail/32/51498_2.png) [@Koktail](https://community.homey.app/u/Koktail)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 6:25am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/25 "2018-11-05T06:25:58Z")
They have a range of 5 meter without obstruction ---
**Author:** ![Koktail](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/koktail/32/51498_2.png) [@Koktail](https://community.homey.app/u/Koktail)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 6:27am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/26 "2018-11-05T06:27:30Z")
Only Homey can detect the BLE beacons in the app for now. ---
**Author:** ![Koktail](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/koktail/32/51498_2.png) [@Koktail](https://community.homey.app/u/Koktail)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 6:34am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/27 "2018-11-05T06:34:05Z")
If a BLE beacon is connected to a device (phone) it cannot be discovered anymore and the app set the device as away. ---
**Author:** ![Eternity](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/eternity/32/102113_2.png) [@Eternity](https://community.homey.app/u/Eternity)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 11:17am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/28 "2018-11-05T11:17:46Z")
I bought the Tile Mate, but I think I was a but too enthusiastic. Here too, the Tile disappears from Homey, but is visible in the Tile App on my phone. How to use it with Homey? ---
**Author:** ![Thomas](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/thomas/32/7888_2.png) [@Thomas](https://community.homey.app/u/Thomas)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2018, 3:02pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/29 "2018-11-05T15:02:13Z")
Thanks for the tip, Koktail. First time I added the Tile, it was without registering it in the Tile-app. Did not do any difference. Seems like Tile is getting a timeout after x seconds. As said earlier, if I hit the button on Tile, it appears again (detected: yes). ---
**Author:** ![Koktail](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/koktail/32/51498_2.png) [@Koktail](https://community.homey.app/u/Koktail)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2018, 10:38am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/30 "2018-11-06T10:38:05Z")
The print of the nrf51822 will fit in a `itag` ble beacon housing with a little modification… 🕶 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/uploads/athom/original/2X/c/cff3ccd03cbd317cc8775592553a280c38f23376.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![TedTolboom](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tedtolboom/32/12081_2.png) [@TedTolboom](https://community.homey.app/u/TedTolboom)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 11:52am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/33 "2018-11-11T11:52:51Z")
@RoyWissenburg you can check with the developer tools the amount of resources an app is using… ---
**Author:** ![TedTolboom](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/tedtolboom/32/12081_2.png) [@TedTolboom](https://community.homey.app/u/TedTolboom)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/35 "2018-11-11T12:26:41Z")
I meant with this graph: [https://developer.athom.com/tools/app-profiling](https://developer.athom.com/tools/app-profiling) and then select com.koktail.beacon app ---
**Author:** ![James\_Woudenberg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/james_woudenberg/32/3700_2.png) [@James\_Woudenberg](https://community.homey.app/u/James_Woudenberg)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/37 "2018-11-11T13:47:42Z")
I am using version 1.0.12 with 2 tile pro’s. 100% working, memory usages is 29.84 MB ---
**Author:** ![Marcel\_Wolf](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/marcel_wolf/32/8087_2.png) [@Marcel\_Wolf](https://community.homey.app/u/Marcel_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 4:28pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/38 "2018-11-11T16:28:14Z")
After removing the beacon in the app it works perfect. Usage is 19Mb ---
**Author:** ![jannes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/jannes/32/1945_2.png) [@jannes](https://community.homey.app/u/jannes)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2018, 7:53pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/39 "2018-11-11T19:53:52Z")
Hi guys, anyone experience with the Nutfind and the Beacon plugin? [https://www.nutfind.com/](https://www.nutfind.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Koktail](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/koktail/32/51498_2.png) [@Koktail](https://community.homey.app/u/Koktail)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 10:23am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/40 "2018-11-12T10:23:53Z")
Did you use v1.0.13? And what settings did you use? ---
**Author:** ![Koktail](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/koktail/32/51498_2.png) [@Koktail](https://community.homey.app/u/Koktail)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 10:27am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/41 "2018-11-12T10:27:17Z")
Are there people that use the app with another beacon as described in the readme? Will you please share your experience of the range in the app’s topic? That way other people can make a good choice of using the correct beacons. > [@\[APP\]\[Pro\] Beacon - Detect your presence with BLE beacons](https://community.homey.app/t/beacon-using-ble-beacons-for-presence-detection/3550): > > [image] Beacon Links: Introduction This app integrate the basic flows for BLE beacons into Homey. Once the app is installed it will do a discovery of BLE devices, after a short adjustable timeout it wil keep discovering. After each discovery the app compares the found devices with the one paired. If the beacon is not found within the new “discovered list” the beacon is changed in state. For filtering out false positives there is a verification amount inside or outside the range available in… ---
**Author:** ![Wout\_van\_den\_Dool](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/wout_van_den_dool/32/391_2.png) [@Wout\_van\_den\_Dool](https://community.homey.app/u/Wout_van_den_Dool)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2018, 6:17pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/43 "2018-11-12T18:17:29Z")
I’m curious also ---
**Author:** ![MadMax](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/madmax/32/10306_2.png) [@MadMax](https://community.homey.app/u/MadMax)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2018, 9:59pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/45 "2018-11-13T21:59:14Z")
Same here ---
**Author:** ![KGroenhoej](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/kgroenhoej/32/941_2.png) [@KGroenhoej](https://community.homey.app/u/KGroenhoej)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2018, 7:09am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/46 "2018-11-14T07:09:08Z")
This is a snip from a post on another forum made by HappyBubbles (that used to make a very interesting product based on BLE beacon detection) [HappyBubblesPost](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/bluetoothle-tile-detect-on-raspberry-pi/10130/6): “A peripheral like your Tile will ‘advertise’ its services, basically sending a broadcast for anyone to hear, when it’s not connected to anything. But as soon as it connects to something, like your phone, it will then stop advertising. Because it’s connected. So that explains why you see it when you turn Bluetooth off your phone. If you don’t plan to use Tile with your phone and only want it for detection, you could forget it from the Bluetooth settings of the phone to not pair with it anymore, and then you could keep seeing the advertisements.” ---
**Author:** ![shadowz7](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/shadowz7/32/7945_2.png) [@shadowz7](https://community.homey.app/u/shadowz7)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 1:23am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/47 "2018-11-15T01:23:09Z")
Hello, the parts go into standby mode if they are not paired with something. I had with my Gigaset Keeper too. Just install the app, pair your phone and beacon and then uninstall the app. Then they will not go to standby anymore. Hallo, die teile gehen in den Standbymodus wenn sie nicht mit etwas gepaart sind. Hatte ich mit meinen Gigaset Keeper auch. Einfach die App installieren, Handy und beacon paaren und danach die App deinstallieren. Dann gehen sie nicht mehr in den Standby. [Previous page](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536.md?page=1) [Next page](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536.md?page=3)