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Beacon Settings

This page is dedicated for explanation of Bluetooth settings and also Beacon parameters in FMB device configurator. A more extensive guide can be found How to start with FMB devices and Beacons?.

Beacon Detection

0 (Disabled) – Functionality disabled.
1 (All) – All visible beacons are detected (Max. 100).
2 (Configured) – Only beacons from the list are sent to server

Beacon Record
0 (After Scan) - Record is sent after succesfull BLE scan. This parameter depends from the Bluetooth 4.0 Scan Settings.
1 (Eventual) – Record is sent after new beacon is detected or previously scanned one is out of range after BLE scan.
2 (Periodic) – All beacons are sent to server. (Record will be saved according to configured period).

Record Period - Beacon record saving period

Record Period on Move & Record Period on Stop. Timers for record generation when device is moving and staying at place.
Record Period on Move (Default value 60 seconds)
Record Period on Stop (Default value 60 seconds)

While selecting the Beacons Detection as All, the device will detect all beacons which are located around the device.

Select Beacons Detection as the Configured, in this case, the beacons will only be detected and send if they were added to the Beacons List.

Beacon List

List of authorized beacons. Eddystone and iBeacon protocols are supported*.

*Beacon Ids can be entered the following way: Namspace:CompanyID, UUID:Major:Minor. Any of the ID parts can be omitted ex., Namespace:. UUID::, UUID::Minotr, etc

There is also possible to select Beacons Detection as the Configured, in this case, the beacons will only be detected and send if they were added to the Beacons List.

Example for the configured beacons detection in the List.

Below there is provided the example of the List, while using the Beacons Detection source as Configured. The provided example is showing the configuration for the iBeacon and Eddy-stone.

The Beacons settings is configured as showed. The iBeacon or Eddystone is added to the list with the following structure:

iBeacon – 20 Bytes (UUDI (16-bytes:major(2-bytes):minor (2-bytes))

Eddystone – 16B (Namespace (10-bytes):Instance ID(6-bytes))

There is possibility to detect the devices just by UUID or Namespace (see the 2 and 6 element in the list).

Or by the Major/Minor for iBeacons and Namespace for Eddystone. (see the 3 and 7 element in the list).