Beacon: a Geohopper/Beecon plugin

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Re: Beacon: a Geohopper/Beecon plugin

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Any one having problems w/ false trigger during the night? Last night I had 30 exit/enter. I'm pretty sure both me and my phone never moved out of the bedroom ;)

I have both Geohopper and Geofency running and they trigger almost exactly the same time so I guess it's my phone and not the app's that are false triggering. I imagine they use the same information from the phone GPS.
This is only happening during the night, during the day (when I'm at home) I do not have this problem. I use a 300m radius.

Any clues?

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Re: Beacon: a Geohopper/Beecon plugin

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Hi,

There has been some discussions with the geofencing concerning security. I want to try to avoid exposing my system.
Is this plugin solution secure? Or am I exposing my system in any way when I use this plugin?

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Re: Beacon: a Geohopper/Beecon plugin

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Is there a way to get this to work LAN-only? I bought geohopper w while back, set it up with a web server notification using my LAN indigo address, and it does nothing. I'd be happy if this would simply be aware if my phone is home or away.

I'm not willing to poke a firewall hole to my indigo server.
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Re: Beacon: a Geohopper/Beecon plugin

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With GeoFency - probably could just use the local IP address for the webhook.

Would only work if connected to local Wifi, so entry only would work I suspect. Also may need to put a delay in the settings depends on how quickly your devices connect to local wifi network

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Re: Beacon: a Geohopper/Beecon plugin

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Thanks. If you get a chance to test that, i'd appreciate it (before I buy another app).

Again, I'm just looking for the simplest, most reliable, least intrusive way of determining whether my iPhone is home or not and triggering actions based on that.
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Re: Beacon: a Geohopper/Beecon plugin

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Hi,
I have started to play a bit with this. And it is very interesting. I have come across some concerns regarding safety in some of the posts.
But as I can see the only thing I do by using this plugin is to open a port on my router. I am not sending my Indigo account information i clear text or something like that.
And I dont see what harm it does to open a port to this plugin?

Any comments?

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Re: Beacon: a Geohopper/Beecon plugin

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i successfully set up this plugin with geomancy, and the device for my set location was created, but can i rename this device, or will it cause it not to work
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Re: Beacon: a Geohopper/Beecon plugin

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haavarda wrote:I want to try to avoid exposing my system.
Is this plugin solution secure? Or am I exposing my system in any way when I use this plugin?
Well, you're exposing the Python BaseHTTPRequestHandler (https://docs.python.org/2/library/basehttpserver.html) to the Internet. I myself feel quite safe doing so, but your mileage may vary. If you don't want to do that and only need say iBeacons at home and not geofencing in "the world" you could use one of the apps that doesn't rely on a cloud service and only expose the plugin to your LAN.
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Re: Beacon: a Geohopper/Beecon plugin

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jbaker2290 wrote:i successfully set up this plugin with geomancy, and the device for my set location was created, but can i rename this device, or will it cause it not to work
Yes, you can rename the device.
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Re: Beacon: a Geohopper/Beecon plugin

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flic wrote:I just posted a new version that supports Geofancy as well as Geohopper and Beecon. (http://geofancy.com) Tried it out with SticknFind stickers in iBeacon mode (https://www.sticknfind.com), works pretty well!
Been playing around with Geofency after reading this thread and it's pretty good. I'd now like to get into beacons and was thinking about getting a couple of the SticknFind stickers. Is there anything I should be aware of when trying to pair them up in Geofency?

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Re: Beacon: a Geohopper/Beecon plugin

Post by flic »

No, it's really straight forward. You need to know the beacon uuid, major version and minor version. You create a new location, enter the values and you're set.

That said, all of my sticknfinds have failed since I wrote that post. If you don't mind the larger size, buy Estimotes instead.
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Re: Beacon: a Geohopper/Beecon plugin

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flic wrote:No, it's really straight forward. You need to know the beacon uuid, major version and minor version. You create a new location, enter the values and you're set.

That said, all of my sticknfinds have failed since I wrote that post. If you don't mind the larger size, buy Estimotes instead.
Good to know... thanks for the heads-up on the failures. I was looking at the estimotes also but it seems like their new stickers are not to iBeacon standards and the batteries are not replaceable. I may just get the bigger ones.
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Re: Beacon: a Geohopper/Beecon plugin

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I'm the author of Geohopper, and I just joined the indigo community. I ordered a starter kit and am going to set up indigo to get a better understanding on how the Beacon plugin works (and automate my home using a Mac mini).

I want to make sure our beacons (and Geohopper) work great with Indigo (and the Beacon plug-in), so please let me know of any outstanding issues or feature requests you have.

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Re: Beacon: a Geohopper/Beecon plugin

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Hi Tim - The biggest issue that I had in trying to use Geohopper with Indigo was a bug in AppleScript which causes a loss in the ability to run a script to"Tell Application Indigo" perform an action. In order to clear the bug, you have to reinstall Indigo, but that only lasts so long. You'll see.

Without a fix for the bug, I think that--in order to use Geohopper with Indigo (which would be a really great thing)--it would require an expansion to the types of things that Geohopper can trigger (like Python scripts for example.)

Here's looking forward to being able to use Geohopper with Indigo!
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Re: Beacon: a Geohopper/Beecon plugin

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Was the AppleScript issue when indigo is called from mac geohopper? If so, you can activate shell script (or python). Or is it part of the plugin?

Sorry if these are basic questions. I am an indigo noob.

Tim
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