piBeacon: presence monitoring plugin discussions

[kw123]

There a literally beacons driving by your house ( in cars ) and the pi is picking them up.
Now the error message is a problem. I am out of town until Tuesday next week. But will try to check remotely.


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[ac4lt]

Thanks for the reply! There's no rush at my end as first beacon hasn't arrived yet. If there is anything you need from me let me know.

[kw123]

Question to Matt and or Jay.

in Line '1316' has error=''key address not found in dict''
how can a device of a plugin not have the key "address" i.e.:

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for dev in indigo.devices.iter("com.karlwachs.piBeacon"): 
  props= dev.pluginProps   
  if props["address"] == piMACSend:  ##< throws an error

created by:

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                    indigo.device.create(
                        protocol=indigo.kProtocol.Plugin,
                        address=piMACSend,
                        name="Pi-"+piMACSend,
                        description="Pi-"+piNReceived,
                        pluginId="com.karlwachs.piBeacon",
                        deviceTypeId="rPI",
                        folder=self.piFolderId)

any advice welcome!

Karl

[berkinet]

The iphone does not send ibeacon signals ...

Actually... There are apps that can function as a beacon. Whether it is useful to leave these functions running is questionable. Battery usage could easily be an issue.
In any case, here are a couple of apps that may be worth exploring. I am sure there are more

• Locate from Radius Networks
• Estimote from Estimote

Also, here is an article on How to Configure your iPhone as an iBeacon Transmitter (requires Xcode).

[berkinet]

...Also, here is an article on How to Configure your iPhone as an iBeacon Transmitter (requires Xcode).

It works, with one small change. In GemTotSDK.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj I had to change

• PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER = com.gemtot.iBeacon

to something else. I chose

• PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER = com.berkinet.iBeacon

There were a few error messages but Xcode was able to fix everything on its own.

I now have GemTotforiOS on my phone.

BTW, the project is also available from: https://github.com/gemtot/iBeacon
It is not clear if they plan on updating this for iOS 9, but it seems to run just fine.

CAVEAT: I have not tried this with anything. YMMV significantly.

And, vielen Dank Karl for your work on this and a plethora of other great contributions.

[kw123]

That's pretty cool! Will try it when I am not back home.

Just one question regarding viruses - I never compiled / developed anything for the iPhone : is this kosher ? I am somewhat suspicious about programs / drivers from China and Russia etc. is this the complete source code or are there any pre compiled program snippets ?



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[haavarda]

That would indeed be very interesting! But I share Karl's skepticism.

[kw123]

Just to clarify. I am a glass is half empty guy. Did not want to put it down. I will definitely try it. I always wanted to get into iPhone programming may this is a good starting point.


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[ac4lt]

Karl,

I woke up this morning to this popping up in the log this morning. It wasn't happening when I went to bed last night.

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  piBeacon Error                  Error in plugin execution runConcurrentThread:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "plugin.py", line 979, in runConcurrentThread
  File "plugin.py", line 966, in initCuncurrentThread
<type 'exceptions.KeyError'>: key address not found in dict

For now I've disabled the plugin. Re-enabling it puts it back in the same state so I've left it disabled for now. Is there a way to nuke the existing plugin configuration and start over from scratch? I can try that unless you'd like me to leave it in this state to help you debug.

[kw123]

To reset it:
Disable plugin
Delete folder ~/documents/pibeacon
Delete pibeacon devices created
That should do it.
But yes I would like to understand why this problem occurs in the first place.
Could you give me a day? I want to add some debug statements around that line of code.


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[ac4lt]

No problem at all. There is not rush at my end. I'm happy to help you investigate what's happening.

[haavarda]

Is there anyone that have experienced if it is possible to use a pebble or a Fitbit as beacon? These are detectable ble devices so...?

[kw123]

ac4lt:
could you try this version. the only addition is a debug statement: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f87qjkextaxnx ... 2.zip?dl=1 (debug will be removed in a formal release)
and post the log file output
Thanks for your help.
Karl

[kw123]

berkinet:

Just one question regarding viruses - I never compiled / developed anything for the iPhone : is this kosher ? I am somewhat suspicious about programs / drivers from China and Russia etc. is this the complete source code or are there any pre compiled program snippets ?

looking at the posted swift code: it seems as if there is no attached library with compile code. looks like it is all open source code..

Karl

[ac4lt]

Karl,

I grabbed your updated plugin but all I'm getting is this (same as it was when I woke up this morning):

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  piBeacon Error                  Error in plugin execution runConcurrentThread:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "plugin.py", line 979, in runConcurrentThread
  File "plugin.py", line 966, in initCuncurrentThread
<type 'exceptions.KeyError'>: key address not found in dict

  piBeacon Error                  plugin runConcurrentThread function returned or failed (will attempt again in 10 seconds)