Is it possible to read beacon temperature without connecting it

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Hi,

Is it possible to read beacon temperature (and of course other telemetry information) without connecting the beacon??
I got good advertising messages with UUID, major, minor values etc. But is it possible to put temperature data there too?

-P

2

You can configure Beacons to send Estimote Telemetry Packet, so you can get all telemetry data without connection to a beacon.

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Thanks, but how to do that?

I installed android application and connected to my beacon and enabled all what I can enable (estimate telemetry is enabled also). Then I started to scan BLE devices and got only this kind of frame
04 3E 2A 02 01 03 01 1A 3F 92 8F 95 DD 1E 02 01 06 1A FF 4C 00 02 15 B9 40 7F 30 F5 F8 46 6E AF F9 25 55 6B 57 FE 6D 67 96 AF 94 B4 AA

where
BT Addr: 1A 3F 92 8F 95 DD
UUID = B9 40 7F 30 F5 F8 46 6E AF F9 25 55 6B 57 FE 6D
major = 67 96
minor = AF 94

And I will get only that advertising frame all the time. Nothing else.
Should the telemetry values be there or not?

-P

4

For Android SDK use: BeaconManager.TelemetryListener
For iOS: no idea, cause I never used it.

5

Thanks again.
I think that the problem is solved. I just looked advertising bt address, but telemetry data came different bt address. I parsed other frame and got same kind values what are in the android application.

-P

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