# \[Tutorial\] 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:** 1\ **Showing post:** 41
**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… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536)._