Holyiot NRF52810

I just picked up a couple of these from Aliexpress. To configure them you need to use the company’s iphone app.

Their page on Aliexpress indicates, with screenshots, that you can easily change from Beacon to iBeacon using the app, but the app actually does not have that function. So it appears to be permanently fixed as “Beacon” only.

Have I just purchased two tiny doorstops?

Does anyone know of a workaround to change it to iBeacon some other way? Google seems to have zero information about this issue.

AIAK they already do send in the iBeacon format, but the descriptions on Aliexpress sometimes are either misleading or at least confusing :wink: with Beacon they usually mean the beacon format, with its UUID, Major and Minor definitions.

What broadcasts do you currently see when scanning and receiving these devices?

Which setup page do you see in the app, with the possibility to change the UUID, Major and Minor changeable?

I use their holyiot-beacon app. I can connect to it and even change the UUID, Major, Minor, device name, and password, etc. It would seem to be functioning normally in that respect. However it will not appear in the iBeacon integration, I tried specifically setting the UUID there and it still does not appear. Back in the app, it says it is currently operating as a “Beacon”. When I tell the app to scan for iBeacon devices it finds nothing. The app screenshots on the Aliexpress page are from a different version of the app, as the toggle to change the beacon type is now either missing or hidden somehow.

Can you see it at all with the free nRF Connect app on your phone, transmitting with the iBeacon format?

I cannot say anything about the iBeacon integration, but if you can see them transmitting with nRF Connect you might want to change their UUIDs to

546865656E67732D69426561636F6E31
respectively
54686565-6E67-732D-6942-6561636F6E31

whichever format the UUID field take - just missed the UUID field in your screenshot above :wink:

Then with the Theengs Gateway Add-on (MQTT integration and MQTT broker required if not already installed an in use) they should be auto-discovered as BLE device trackers with Home/Away status, if that woulds be a use can you’d want to use them for.

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