Wifi-enabled beacon receiver/gateway suggestions

Hi. Currently i’m looking for a Wifi-enabled beacon receiver or gateway (with MQTT support) for room presence detection. Like what Estimote promises here. I know of Happy Bubbles. But are there any other similar products? My only issue right know is the problem with the lights. I want those beacons to work without any noticeable delay. Or can a HASS setup with Happy Bubbles be tweaked to fix this problem?

Another way is using your smartphone as the receiver. Greg Dowling did some writing about that.

MQTT vs HTTP for Bluetooth WiFi Gateways explained here.

And someone did some coding to toggle lights with Estimote Beacons + iPhone + Raspberry Pi here. Not sure if there’s any delay in his setup.

Hello, this is one function among other of openmqttgateway project :


It detects beacons and publish their mac adresses and signal strentgh to mqtt.

Nice. So this is MQTT Gateway software for beacon detection for an ESP8266 board or Arduino. Would be nice if this could run on a Hassbian. Not sure how to receive beacon data from beacons from the hardware side. Just a regular bluetooth antenna?

It works either with esp8266 or arduino. It uses an hm10 with an incorporated antenna. At final you need the following hardware components :
*hm10
*arduino + ethernet shield or esp8266

To be honest I like doing some DIY tech. But building a beacon receiver is too much work for me.

no problem :-), is not as difficult as it looks, it’s only 4 wires between the esp8266 and the hm10.
Good luck in your searches.