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Some tips and notes for developing with Sensoro Beacons and Eddystone EID

Sensoro Beacons & Eddystone EID

Some tips for developing with Sensoro Beacons for Eddystone EID beacons.

Since there are almost no information about this topic, I decided to publish ala short "blog post" how to resolve several issues with Eddystone EID beacons, where I spent numerous hours debugging.

Problems

• First of all, Google Beacon API looks broken and does not really work, at least for me and I was not able to register and observe beacons successfully. Thus I would like to recommend develop your own Trusted resolver. Some sample code how to generate a identity key and know what EID will looks like some point in the future can be found in snippets directory.
• Beacon counter has a integer overflow, every 255 seconds beacon delays for 1 second, thus leaving the beacon after several months unusable. Software workaround is implemented in BeaconTools.php class
• To connect and provision the beacon you will need a Beacon object. Details how to generate one can be found within BeaconFactory.java file
• Will post more solution to the problems as I will encounter them.

Why buy Sensoro beacons? Not Estimote or other beacons?

I would have bought Estimote, but their shipping and import taxes are too high and I only needed one for my R&D.

Sensoro, well, they have replacable batteries, are relatively cheap and have the support for Eddystone EID. This is why I sticked with them. Sadly they have a lot of problems, but at least I have found solutions for all of them at the time of writing this README.md.

As well, I can configure the Eddystone EID rotation exponent to whatever I want (e.g. rotate ids every second) which is very convenient.

Thanks?

Please Star this repository if you found it useful for your project or it helped resolve some issues you had.

If you have a beacon based project that you want to develop, you can as well contact me for work.