Beacon: a Geohopper/Beecon plugin

[boekweg]

Thank you for your efforts Peter! In the mean time I have configured my geofence in the website of locative.io by giving my geofence a name. I have put this name after the @@ and it seems to work now. I have deselected the box "create new device"
-Paul

[ckeyes888]

Seeing Geohopper is going to a $4.99 monthly subscription I thought I'd give Geofency a try.
I set up the webhook like it was in Geohopper but the test connections timeout and fail.

Geofency has some options for using json and authentication that I wasn't using in Geohopper
and am not sure about how to setup, or if they are necessary.

Any help greatly appreciated!

Beacon plugin v0.95. Indigo 6.0.20

edit: Are Geofancy and Geofency the same app? Searched the app store for Geofancy and only came up with
Geofency.

Thanks,

Carl

[flic]

I just did the exact same switch myself. The settings should be:

Event -> URL Settings On
Noti fy on Entry On
URL http://your.fqdn.or-ip:6192

Notify on Exit On
URL http://your.fqdn.or-ip:6192

POST Format JSON

No Authentication

Geofancy recently changed name to Locative.

Edit: by the way, you should really upgrade Beacon to a newer version. https://github.com/flic/Beacon/releases

[midd]

not to derail this thread, but I sent an email to Tim from Geohopper expressing my disappointment with Geohopper going to a monthly subscription. I use Beacon and GeoHopper and I've been very happy with the results. But I won't be paying $60 a year to use it.

[ckeyes888]

Geofency still fails to send a test using the above settings. Also updated Beacon and got this in the log:

Stopping plugin "Beacon" (pid 18661)
Stopped plugin "Beacon"
Upgrading plugin "Beacon" to newer version 1.4.8 (previous version moved to trash)
Loading plugin "Beacon 1.4.8"
Starting plugin "Beacon 1.4.8" (pid 21285)
Started plugin "Beacon 1.4.8"
Beacon Error Device [email protected]//Carl Work needs to be deleted and recreated.
Beacon Error Device [email protected]//Work needs to be deleted and recreated.
Beacon Error Device Geo Carl Home needs to be deleted and recreated.
Beacon Error Device Geo Carl Moose's needs to be deleted and recreated.
Beacon Error Device Geo Carl Nugget needs to be deleted and recreated.
Beacon Error Device Geo Carl Work needs to be deleted and recreated.
Beacon Error Device Geo Lola Home needs to be deleted and recreated.
Beacon Error Device Geo Lola Moose's needs to be deleted and recreated.
Beacon Listening on TCP port 6192
Beacon Error Device Geo Lola Nugget needs to be deleted and recreated.
Beacon Error Device Geo Lola Work needs to be deleted and recreated.
Beacon Error Device [email protected]//Moose's needs to be deleted and recreated.

Tried recreating one of the devices but there's no "model" to select. Maybe try to go back to the older version.
Updates and me don't mix.

Thanks,

Carl

[howartp]

There was a change in the Beacon plugin a few releases back which requires the devices to be deleted, as you've noticed.

Don't create your new devices manually - just delete them, then make sure the config option (in the plugin > beacon > configuration) for "automatically create devices" is ticked.

Now send a test notification from a device, and it should create a device for it.

I choose to send tests from every device and every geofence, to force Beecon to create the devices whilst I'm home - but you don't need to if you're happy just letting them create as and when you enter a geofence.

Peter

[flic]

ckeyes, is it possible that it works over cellular "out of the house" but not when you're home on your WiFi? Try by turning off wifi on your phone and then test your connection.

If that's the case, try googling for "nat hairpinning" as it's a matter of firewall configuration. One of the big advantages of using Geohopper is that the connection always comes from outside your firewall. Not so with Geofency or the others.

[ckeyes888]

I tried setting up NAT hairpinning and got nowhere. When I found routers that supported
it they either wouldn't work with my provider or some other issue.

When I turn off wifi and try to test location it says "network connection lost".
Odd. No idea what that means as I'm clearly on LTE.

edit: Also tried a local address with wifi enabled http://192.168.1.xx:6192 with no luck.

Thanks,

Carl

[ckeyes888]

Maybe some way to direct the web hook thru the reflector?

Thanks,

Carl

[howartp]

I use dyndns for other things, so I just forwarded 6192 through for GeoFency alerts.

I have a reflector for the Indigo stuff though.


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[ckeyes888]

Seems a dead end. Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Carl

[flic]

It's strange that it isn't working egen with the local address. Check the config, verify that you haven't disabled Geofency by mistake. Enable debug logging, see if Beacon says anything at all when you try.

[ckeyes888]

Ok with debug on I get this in the log when I send a test using the ddns URL from my local network:

Beacon Debug Received HTTP POST
Beacon Debug User-agent: Geofency/217 CFNetwork/758.2.8 Darwin/15.0.0

Doesn't seem to contain any info on who sent it and the location?

Thanks,

Carl

So maybe

[ckeyes888]

Got it working. Reloaded the updated plugin and tried the local url again and it worked.
Since Geofency doesn't treat all connections as outside the firewall I'll try making
a second Home location using the local address for backup.

Seems Tim is out another $60 per year

Thanks a bunch for all the help!

Carl

[flic]

And here I am fixing up a version with better logging, both debugging and otherwise... Oh well, it needed doing anyway. I'll push the new code to GitHub if anybody wants to upgrade, but I won't bump the version number or create a new release. Use this URL if you want it: https://github.com/flic/Beacon/archive/master.zip

Glad you got it working!