# \[Tutorial\] Presence detection with bluetooth beacon

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536>\
**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")\
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**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 1, 2018, 5:43pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/tutorial-presence-detection-with-bluetooth-beacon/3536/7 "2018-11-01T17:43:02Z")

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I’ve just released v1.0.13

### v1.0.0 - 04.10.18

- first alpha to app store.

### v1.0.1 - 05.10.18

- add support for NRF51822
- add app icon
- refactoring the drivers

### v1.0.2 - 07.10.18

- add trigger card for discovered devices
- add icon for discovery

### v1.0.3 - 07.10.18

- add generic device

### v1.0.4 - 20.10.18

- add verify process for detect/undetect events

### v1.0.5 - 07.10.24

- improve discovery of the devices
- change card description

### v1.0.6 - 07.10.24

- improve by connection and find the advertisement

### v1.0.7 - 07.10.24

- bump version

### v1.0.8 - 07.10.25

- improve sequence update beacons
- get peripheral for accurate range
- change timeout to 1 second
- improve logging to the app
- add retry strategy

### v1.0.9 - 07.10.25

- bump version

### v1.0.10 - 07.10.27

- introducing timeout and verification settings
- revert back to discovery strategy to improve speed
- add translations
- improve logging

### v1.0.11 - 07.10.27

- mismatch variable name bug
- also check on bigger that the amount if app restarts

### v1.0.12 - 07.10.30

- add default values in settings
- change comparator typo

### v1.0.13 - 07.11.01

- fixed change detect comparison mismatch
- add log handler to watch false positives
- fixed zero verification times

> [@\[APP\]\[Pro\] Beacon - Detect your presence with BLE beacons](https://community.homey.app/t/beacon-using-ble-beacons-for-presence-detection/3550):
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> [image] Beacon Links: [https://github.com/koktaildotcom/com.koktail.beacon](https://github.com/koktaildotcom/com.koktail.beacon)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 verificat…

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