Geofancy

[Gordon Meyer]

I’m using iBeacons at home. More accurate? Well, sorta. You’re still dealing with range and placement issues. Fine-tuning invisible bubbles is an exercise in patience. The bottom line is Jeff’s sentiment below is correct. The most useful thing you can calibrate is your expectations. :)

 —Gordon


> On Jun 2, 2015, at 11:21 AM, Jeff Wooding <jeff at qualitytubandtile.com> wrote:
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> 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 <mailto: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 ;)
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> > On Jun 2, 2015, at 8:32 AM, Brian Williams <brwill at me.com <mailto: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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> James Sentman                       http://sentman.com <http://sentman.com/>          http://MacHomeAutomation.com <http://machomeautomation.com/>
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