Beacon: a Geohopper/Beecon plugin

[stuartcolman]

What are the value needed by Beacon to change the device state? Does it just take a JSON input?

[flic]

I support a few different applications and so a few different ways of doing it:

Geofancy:
User agent must include "Geofancy". ctype "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", POST device, id and trigger.

Geofency:
User agent must include "Geofency". ctype "application/json". POST JSON-formatted device, name, entry.

Beecon:
User agent must include "Beecon". POST region and action.

Geohopper:
ctype "application/json". POST JSON-formatted sender, location and event.

Trigger/event/entry/action can be one of the following: LocationEnter/enter/1, LocationExit/exit/ 0, LocationTest/test

[flic]

Simple example on how to trigger Beacon from the command line:

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curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -X POST -d '{"sender":"fredrik","location":"home","event":"LocationEnter"}' http://localhost:6192

[stuartcolman]

what would the relevant device in Indigo look like to use that code? would it be fredrik@@home as the address?

[flic]

Yes, exactly


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[howartp]

Interesting to see:

http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/11/blue ... ents-2016/

Will be great for a whole-house home/away zone.


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[pocster]

Hey all,

This has been working great for me but recently I seem to get multiple triggers for exit and entrance of a zone.
Can see no obvious reason for this; any suggestions?

Cheers

[howartp]

Hi flic,

Running Beacon 1.4.3

I've just bought three new RadBeacons and added them to GeoFency.

Before adding them, I "duplicated" an existing Beacon device in Indigo, then edited the Address to what I was about to create in GeoFency.

But when I activate the Webhook in GeoFency, your plugin insists on creating a new device instead of using the one I duplicated.

Is this intentional?

Peter

[flic]

Are you sure you didn't just edit the name? I wasn't aware that it was possible to edit the address. Either way, no it's not intentional. If the address match an existing device no new device is created.


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[howartp]

Definitely the address.


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[flic]

I'll take a look at it, see if you found a bug


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[flic]

Yep, definitely a bug! Fixed in 1.4.4.

[howartp]

Can you fix it a bit quicker next time?


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[flic]

Yeah I know, I'm slipping...

I'm on the sofa with my laptop, recuperating from knee surgery and bored out of my mind, that helps some!

[howartp]

Ah!

I'll test it as soon as I can grab my dads phone to add the new ones - about half an hour.

A new idea if you want something to think about: I've got a RadBeacon USB in my PC at work, which activates when I arrive.

It deactivates whenever I leave the office (it's a school campus so pretty big).

I'd like to turn off the 'Exit' webhook in GeoFency, but that means the Beacon device will be permanently on.

It would be good to be able to turn off a Beacon device using regular Indigo commands such as after 30 minutes of not-being-in-the-office, or when I get in the car (there's a USB in there as well)?


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