Geofancy

[Jeff Wooding]

If you need better accuracy than you could always use a two factor location
trigger, like Geofancy with geofences and iBeacon (store bought or home
made)! Some how I don't think we need it to be 100% spot on but if you do
then there you go.

Thanks,
Jeff

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 7:42 AM, James Sentman <james at sentman.com> wrote:

> I think it’s just that the alerts aren’t coming in either reliably or fast
> enough?
>
> I also use this and it’s not 100% reliable, but it does work. Sometimes it
> says I”m home when I’m a block away, sometimes it doesn’t figure it out
> until i’m actually in the driveway but it does work.
>
> I think the timing issues are due to the OS and I”m not sure that there is
> anything the app author can do about it if thats the case. I’ve read the
> API and it’s pretty straight forward from the app’s point of view. If the
> OS doesn’t call back to you on changes fast enough there isn’t anything you
> can do about it.  If thats actually the case then I would expect any other
> app to be any better. Of course I could be wrong and it could be an
> individual app problem ;)
>
>
>
>
> > On Jun 2, 2015, at 8:32 AM, Brian Williams <brwill at me.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have looked through past XTensionlist postings, but have been
> unsuccessful in understanding what issue it is that the Geofancy developer
> has indicated won’t be addressed for some time. My confusion is probably
> because I seem to be having Geofancy working as I believe it should (and
> therein may be part of my challenge – my expectations.).
> >
> > I have Geofancy 1.8.7 on my iPhone, with several fences, all of which
> have XTension entities, XTension is Build 885 running on a MacMini with OS
> 10.10.3.
> >
> > What is the problematic behaviour that you are experiencing? I will test
> for similar behaviour in my installation.
>
> Thanks,
>         James
>
>
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>
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