Apple TV is iBeacon

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Samsung TV is iBeacon

I've just found out that my Samsung telly has an iBeacon in it, only rather annoyingly it doesn't stop transmitting when you turn it off, only when you switch it off at the mains power which made it difficult to track down.

:?: What is the point of putting a beacon in a TV? What is that for??

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I have one in my toothbrush


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And Samsung has probably other things in there too. Like a mic and camera. And tracking everything you watch.


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Ha Ha Ha !!!

Ah, sorry I didn't see your post above about the iPhone UUID's above - yes that format seems to be the same foe iPads too and it's doing my head in trying to find out the format of these messages by turning things off and on. It seems like there's not 100% correlation to a specific iPhone/iPad device I don't think?

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Just tried updated piBeacon v-7-64-141 - fabulous 8)

I am a little confused by the following two plugin menu options:

Define iPhone/iPad - UUID link
Map UUID to a NAME


I noticed that under the first iPhone option, there is both the option to select uuid is fixed and uuid-maj-min is fixed.

I have a device with a UUID of 0-0-0 where the mac address keeps changing. Now this is clearly not an iOS device, but I didn't want to select the second Map UUID option as that would overwrite the Notes field which would prevent me from spotting similar UUID's. This option worked the way I wanted it for another longer UUID (non Apple) beacon, and I set my own custom Device Name for it, so all is good.

However, when I came to do the same for UUID 0-0-0, whatever options I chose I could not get it to appear in the candidates drop-down menu list. I tried uuid-maj-min is fixed with uuid is 1 char long eg: 1 (confirm) and various other combinations but could not get this one listed.

Any ideas?

P.S. My list of beacons is looking so much neater and shorter now 8)

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Thu Sep 07, 2017 1:52 pm
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Uuid fixed is w/o man and minor
The 0-0-0:
The rpi sends the full uuid-min-major only every 10'times or so to reduce the number of bytes.


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Re: Apple TV is iBeacon

check out v ...-142 it will always send the FULL uuid if you select that option in config.

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Ah OK, so the device I'm seeing with UUID 0-0-0 isn't 0-0-0 at all but perhaps some device I've recently deleted perhaps?

So I guess the option in v142 would be very useful during testing trying to find out which beacon is what and which are garbage passing traffic 8)

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Yes.
And also your other q. Map uuid to name simply does that nothing else not filter selecting.. just replacing the uuid number with a text string in the notes field. Most useful for classes of beacons e.g. Xy tile etc. then you can have xy-major-minor in the notes field


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I'm having problems renaming my Apple TV beacon.

I've defined an iPhone/iPad UUID link of type uuid--min fixed, 18 char long (e.g. Apple TV), confirmed and established, etc.

Then I double-click the green beacon established above and change the device name from the mac address to Apple TV.

When I power cycle the Apple TV, I get a new beacon created and the old named Apple TV beacon remains in the list expired.

I am therefore not able to persistently have a beacon device named Apple TV

What's interesting is that when I go to associate the new device, it tells me that it is already defined:
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Could you do a print config and post the beacon sections.


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Re: Apple TV is iBeacon

looked a bit into it.
one issue is timing.

the decision to map UUID-maj-min to a mac# is done on the RPIs.

the flow is the following:

1. check if map (uuid-mej-min selected with uuid-maj-min incoming) matches, if yes: replace newMAC # with predefined mac #
2. if uuid (first 10 char.) in uuid reject list: reject
3. if mac number in reject list : reject

reject list and map lists need to be ftp-ed to each mac.
(the reject list gets updated once an beacon device is deleted.the mac# of that beacon is added to the reject list. - you can reset that in menu (un)ignore beacons)

during the time when the files are not in sync some messages might come through that will not after all files are in sync.

one issue I see: if e.g. UUID and MIN stay always the same, but maj changes and you select uuid--min to be fixed / constant. Then the UUID-MAJ-MIN in the notes field will be changing with new MAJ #.
Q: should that happen or should MAJ be replaced with predefined MAJ?



Hackencrash. In order to analyze your setup I need the details of your beacons, all defined, old ones, and uuid-mac# mapping from print config..
I have some test cases and mine seem to work.


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Mon Sep 11, 2017 1:58 am
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Re: Apple TV is iBeacon

Hi Karl, sorry I haven't done the print configuration thing yet - VPN access from my small phone screen do do this would be painful - I'll do that tonight.

From remotely checking this, it does look like it has successfully updated, so yes perhaps it's a timing issue as I didn't realise the processing for this was done on the rPi's.

Will confirm later when I have a bigger screen!

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P.S. I don't know if it's intentional or an issue, but when you click on the link to download v145, it comes up as v143 :shock:

I've sent you a PM about my config files you requested

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Re: Apple TV is iBeacon

Fixed that.


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