Seriously no one from estimote team can reply how to connect to Location beacon and retrieve temerature and GPIO data

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Hi

Do we have any developers who is able to connect to Location Beacon and retrieve beacons temperature and GPIO data.

Looking for ios development using either Objective C or Swift.
Thanks
Krishna

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I have not yet played with it but the below github link is where I will be starting.

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Thank you Wade for responding

Yes I have looked into it.
All I am looking into is reading temperature sensor and GPIO telemetry packet data.
The code that the github showed is what i implemented and am unable to read temperature data.

So here are my questions

a) Does my App have to connect to beacon device to read the temperature data or not ( I meant connecting is to detect beacon that i intend to read thru its UUID , Major and Minor)
If No need to connect how do i read temperature data and know the temperature is from which device.

b) I am using proximity app template from estimote cloud to connect to location beacon and read sensor data. ( not sure if that is the right way as estimote does not have Location beacon template)

c) the github ios-sdk repository is divided into 2 parts client and utility. not exactly able to figure out what is the difference.

Let me know if more details are required.

Thanks again for all the help.

Krishna

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Krishna,

Wish I could answer any of these questions affirmatively right now but I am going to play with it a little next week as I have a raspberry pi, breadboard, LEDs, switches and jumpers on hand.

I will post my results and some sample code as soon as I get a chance to dig into it.

~Chris

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Thank you. Looking forward to work on this.

Krishna

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So this is the piece of code on my custom App

Using Swift

    let devicefilter = ESTDeviceFilterLocationBeacon(identifier: "de396be57fbbdd39539a41fad4e1ce2c")
    self.manager.startDeviceDiscoveryWithFilter(devicefilter)
 
    let temperatureNotification: ESTTelemetryNotificationTemperature = ESTTelemetryNotificationTemperature(notificationBlock: {(temperature: ESTTelemetryInfoTemperature) -> Void in
        NSLog("Current temperature: %@ C", temperature.temperatureInCelsius)
    })
    self.manager.registerForTelemetryNotification(temperatureNotification)

using Objective C

self.manager  = [[ESTDeviceManager alloc] init];

ESTDeviceFilterLocationBeacon *be = [[ESTDeviceFilterLocationBeacon alloc] initWithIdentifier:@"de396be57fbbdd39539a41fad4e1ce2c"];
[self.manager startDeviceDiscoveryWithFilter: be];
self.manager.delegate = self;



ESTTelemetryNotificationTemperature *temperatureNotification = [[ESTTelemetryNotificationTemperature alloc]
                                                                initWithNotificationBlock:^(ESTTelemetryInfoTemperature *temperature) {
                                                                    NSLog(@"Current temperature: %@ C", temperature.temperatureInCelsius);
                                                                }];

[self.manager registerForTelemetryNotification:temperatureNotification];

My best guess is either the registration is not happening or EST telemetry packets are not being sent.

Second thing i noticed is from Estimote app itself

When i Login into the Estimote App - the LED on estimote Location Beacon starts blinking and the moment i logout the light stops blinking.

My thinking on Blinking is broadcasting data ( not sure if i am right or wrong)

Thanks
Krishna

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Thanks for that. I have to think that info is available when the data is presented on each broadcast so I would think that it is something which is in the object returned from the delegate. I need to drill into the framework a bit to see what’s available and where it might be contained.