iBeacon on Android

Hardware
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Hi. I’ve just received my first iBeacon from Blue Sense as recommended in the very well written blog post iBeacons: How to track things that can’t track themselves, however, I’m having problems with Owntracks seeing the beacon. Owntracks and Mosquitto are all up and running fine with GPS and have been for a good few months so I’m pretty sure the problem is on the phone.

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Here is the region setting in Owntracks

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And here is the beacon showing up in my bluetooth device list.

My phone is a Oneplus X with CyanogenMod 13 (Android 6.0.1).

Thanks for any help.

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Owntracks works very badly with beacons on Android, unfortunately. My solution was to use the “Beacon Locator” app which can execute Tasker actions, and the “MQTT Publisher Plugin” for Tasker.

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With the latest version of Owntracks for Android (1.1.7) this functionality now works properly.

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