iBeacon problems

rebelnme · November 21, 2017, 3:03pm

As we all know, iphones are horrible at location tracking. Therefore I thought I would try an iBeacon. It works great with owntracks on my wife’s phone but every time I add the information to customization, the iOS app crashes at startup. I remove the information and it operates correctly. What am I doing wrong.
This is the customization I was referring to. Any help would be appreciated.

zone.home:
beacon:
uuid: fda50693-a4e24fb1-afcfc6eb-07647825
major: 10023
minor: 59921

ha_steve · March 2, 2018, 7:45pm

Did you ever get this sorted out? I have the same issue (although it only crashes when I hit “save” in the settings…

rebelnme · March 2, 2018, 10:27pm

No I have not resolved this issue and was just waiting on an app update to hopefully solve the problem. My app crashes when I attempt to save it as well initially and then progresses to crashing at startup. If you figure out how to resolve this, please let me know.

ha_steve · March 5, 2018, 1:47am

I don’t know what I did… but somehow it now works. I didn’t get a crash when I went to the settings and clicked save even through I have the beacon info in the zone.home customization. I really wish I knew what I did to make it work.

I’ve been configuring the crap out of HA the last month, so I restart many times per day… maybe one of them fixed it?

EDIT: I do still have the the issue where the app will report all "X"s rather than the and I have to re-click save ti get it back

ha_steve · March 7, 2018, 4:25am

@rebelnme
Try this: your UUID is in the form:

########-########-########-########

Use the uuidgen command to generate one of the form:

########-####-####-####-###########

it’s the same number of characters, but grouped differently. This second pattern is the default format if you just type uuidgen at the command prompt (in mac OS / linux, anyway).

Edit: Credit to /u/wrboyce over at Reddit for spotting this

rebelnme · March 8, 2018, 1:35am

Thanks a lot. The uuidgen worked great.

ha_steve · March 8, 2018, 6:27pm

good! Glad it worked. I filed a bug on github, but it doesn’t seem like there very much active development on the ios app lately…

tom_l · November 20, 2018, 7:24am

So just to be clear, the iBeacon zone info has to go in zone: and customization:?

ha_steve · December 8, 2018, 7:01pm

in customize: you put the beacons stuff like so:

zone.home:
  beacon:
    uuid: 12345678-1234-1234-1234-123456789012
    major: 2
    minor: 1080

AFAIK, you don’t do it in the zone: definition in the configuration.yaml file.

EDIT: I should point out that if you don’t have a zone: definition in your configuration file, it makes a default one for you called home, so you can still customize it.