Beacon Launcher

[Thomas Arman]

Thanks Gordon,

But the Estimote is settable for 100ms -> 2 sec announcement interval, but the app seems to be insensitive to changing that.

Two other apps on the Mac seem to see it “come and go” also, so I don’t think it is that app itself.  More likely it is something in OS X (maybe?).

I have three Estimote iBeacons and they all “come and go” to the Mac.

Digging deeper into the “Core Bluetooth Programming Guide” from Apple, I see that "All Bluetooth-related events that occur while a foreground-only app is in the suspended state are queued by the system and delivered to the app only when it resumes to the foreground.”
That said, Core Bluetooth provides a way to alert the user when certain central role events occur.  

I suspect these apps are foreground only and wake up every ten seconds????

Tom

> On Jun 19, 2015, at 12:14 PM, Gordon Meyer <bb at g2meyer.com> wrote:
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> My guess is that the Estimote isn’t pinging frequently enough, so that app is assuming it has exited.  I don’t have that particular brand, but if it lets you set the rate, maybe drop it down from 10 seconds.  —Gordon
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