Detecting when beacon signal is lost

[mseroczynski]

Detecting when beacon signal is lost

[pwittchen]

I've created issue #79 for that feature. It can be a subject of implementation in the future.

[pwittchen]

Hi,

thanks for reporting the issue. Right now, library simply scans beacons around and displays them as soon as they're visible to the scanning device. It's much simpler approach than most BLE APIs provide. In other APIs for Beacons like Estimote or Kontakt.io there's concept of ranging and monitoring, but ReactiveBeacons doesn't have it.

Detecting when the beacon signal is lost is not implemented in the library, but I think it could be possible to implement it with library API. We need to detect the situation when beacon with specified MAC address is detected for the first time with a proper subscription, save it somewhere and then subscribe stream of beacons and check if the previously detected beacon is available on the list. If not, we may consider beacon signal as lost.