Yes. I wanted to use an ESP in each room in combination with the iBeacon Tracker component to create a room presence detection. But this won’t work at all.
Let me explain the situation.
I have four rooms on the same floor, each with an ESP32 running Bluetooth Proxy and BLE Tracker.
When I start the BLE-Transmitter sensor on my Android phone, one of the Trackers will find my phone immediately. The problems are:
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The device will be detected by a random tracker in range. I suppose all trackers find the device but the iBeacon Tracker just doesn’t care which one has the best RSSI and just picks the first one reporting the device.
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The device will not update until I change BLE-Transmitter settings on my phone. Disabling and reenabling the transmitter, changing advertise mode or transmitting power for example will trigger an update right away, but moving around does not trigger any change.