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Newbie help, can’t figure out which tile is the device

PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 8:04 am
by mpovolo
I got this all setup with pibeacon seeing devices. But for the life of me I haven’t been able to figure out which entry is my Tile device. I even have the scanner app on my iPhone that sees the tile but none of the numbers it identifies show in the pibeacon table. Any advice on hw to figure this out. I have lie 50 entries to sort through.

Thanks

Re: Newbie help, can’t figure out which tile is the device

PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 9:17 am
by kw123
The new tiles do not send bc any more.

The xy 3 are still the best.

In general how to find the proper mac number of beacon

First after some time stop accepting new beacons all your beacons should already be there.
Then put beacon next to the rpi
Wait 2minutes check which beacon is the closest, mark that
Move beacon far away
Wait 2 minutes.
Then check the signal signal/ distance of that ibeacon on that rpi. Should be far away.

Name that beacon and create a folder good beacons. Move that beacon into that folder

Continue with next beacon.

Unfortunately there is no phone app that shows the mac number.



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Re: Newbie help, can’t figure out which tile is the device

PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 9:47 pm
by mpovolo
Thank you. The table in indigo does not show signal strength though. Where do you see that.

Thanks

Re: Newbie help, can’t figure out which tile is the device

PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 9:54 pm
by kw123
In the iBeacon device states.

Move the states View pane up

There you find some 30+ states

In rpi device states you find the nearest iBeacon


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Re: Newbie help, can’t figure out which tile is the device

PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 10:10 pm
by mpovolo
Oh my, such a simple thing and never seen that you could pull up that spit window.

thanks so much

Re: Newbie help, can’t figure out which tile is the device

PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 5:43 am
by kw123
That’s a common issue. Everyone had to go through that




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