iOS getting ranged beacon identifier

BLE Beacons
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I have an app that simply needs to detect a primary and secondary beacon are visible to the app. I am having a hard time figuring out how to get the Identifier of nearby beacons to compare. I’ve tried ranging on iOS and that doesn’t expose identifier but only UUID, major, minor etc.

I also tried [ self.deviceManager startDeviceDiscoveryWithFilter:filter]; with a generic filter to look at all nearby beacons. And the ESTDeviceLocationBeacons that are returned do not return the identifier. On Android I’m good using

beaconManager.setConfigurableDevicesListener(new BeaconManager.ConfigurableDevicesListener() {
@Override
public void onConfigurableDevicesFound(List configurableDevices) {

those devices have a deviceId which is the identifier. device.deviceId . What’s the iOS equivalent to this? I just cant figure out how to do a simple task of seeing if user is near two beacons.

2

Can anyone answer this? I use the estimote app and show devices and I see beacons with identifiers. I just want to look through nearby beacons and compare identifiers with expected identifiers. I’m surprised the identifiers are exposed like they are on Android SDK.

3

This is what’s being returned for ESTDevice.identifier: “ength=20,bytes=0x000f7bd914b3bf9”… The last 13 characters are a correct start of a nearby beacon’s identifier.

4

Yes. You’re absolutely right.