I am not able to broadcast in the background using this project. Once I minimize the App, the broadcast stops. Has anyone else had the background broadcast work?

Hi, It looks like there is a problem when detecting the real iBeacon signals. When two instances of Vicinity is running on different devices (one for advertising and one for detecting) they see each other. However, when I use a real iBeacon, Vicinity can not detect the signals. It is always out of range. I did not forget to provide the correct "SINGLETON_IDENTIFIER" value for estimate beacons. This is also true for advertising. Vicinity signals can not be detected as iBeacon signals (as an example, can'be detected by Estimote app). So is this example only meant to work with "Vicinity way" of beacons or am I missing out something?

I am unable to toggle into broadcast mode in the iOS Simulator. Looking at the code, it seems that since both isDetecting and isBroadcasting are false, nothing happens when you tap the toggle button.

see - (void)didToggleMode:(UIButton *)button

I'm having an issue detecting another device while both devices are in the background.

I start one device and lock it, having it detect in the background. I start the app on the other device, having it broadcast in the foreground. Detecting device finds the broadcast, great.

Then comes my problem:

I restart the device in the background. This time I have the second device broadcast while in the background. The detecting device is not able to find it.

Have you encountered this problem? Any ideas?

Thanks

I am attempting to transmit beacons in the background on iOS devices while in Advertisement mode and not Connected Mode. I have a scanner that is able to pick up on various formatted beacons while they are within range. I am able to transmit and receive ibeacons when utilizing the coreloction framework, but I am not able to detect any beacons when utilizing this project. I do not want to establish any connections. I strictly want to transmit ble advertisements over the three established BLE advertising channels. Does this project allow for BLE advertising of UUID beacons while in "Advertisement Mode" and also in the background? Does another iOS device have to be specifically looking for this beacon? If that is the case, is there a way around that so a linux machine scanning the three advertising channels would be able to detect the UUID beacon?

I want to create a Vicinity android version. The app I am developing is cross platform. How should I approach this problem? How can I be able to scan and broadcast Vicinity signals on android? Thank you very much in advance!

Hey all,

I am trying out this project. However, I got ConsoleView.m complaining EasyLayout.h file not found.

I am using latest Xcode and checked out the latest version of this project.

Thanks, Frank

Included steps to build and run the project. There might be some frictions for those that don't know the project also utilizes EasyLayout as a submodule, and also it needs to open as workspace project via Xcode too.

Hello,

Have you been able to make this work after a device reboot? It seems that broadcasting and scanning both work in the background, but not after the device is restarted.

Thanks,

-Dave