BeaconThings 1.1.1



Publisher Description



BeaconThings is a simple app to let you integrate iBeacons into your SmartThings smart home. With BeaconThings, you can get more reliable, and more specific location information. Spread some beacons around your home, register them with BeaconThings, and it will tell SmartThings when you're nearby. For each BeaconThing your register, a device is added to SmartThings that can be used with SmartRules, or custom SmartApps, to trigger events. BeaconThings are organized into "Places" and "Areas". An area is one specific location, like "Kitchen", and is specified by one specific beacon. Areas map to the "minor" field of the beacon. A place is something like "Home", or "Work", and would typically contain multiple areas. This maps to the "major" field of the iBeacon. When setting up your home, you'll configure your beacons with the BeaconThings UUID (specified in the app), and then choose a unique major value for each place, and unique minor values for each area. When any of the areas in one place are detected, then that place is "present". Once you've registered your BeaconThings, you never need to open this app again. It will do its work 100% in the background with no user interaction required. To minimize battery drain, BeaconThings only uses iBeacon monitoring. This means that it won't tell you whether you are inches from the beacon, or 20 feet away, only whether or not the beacon is detected in range. When you need to detect a limited range, just use an iBeacon with configurable power settings. BeaconThings is currently only designed to be run on one device. Using BeaconThings on multiple devices with the same beacons will result in unexpected behavior. This is a feature that will be added at some point, but it is not supported yet. NOTICE: iBeacons just broadcast a few values and can easily be replicated. obycode does not advise using iBeacons to trigger security sensitive actions (such as unlocking a door).

Requires iOS 8.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.


About BeaconThings

BeaconThings is a free app for iOS published in the System Maintenance list of apps, part of System Utilities.

The company that develops BeaconThings is obycode, LLC. The latest version released by its developer is 1.1.1.

To install BeaconThings on your iOS device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2015-08-04 and was downloaded 18 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the BeaconThings as malware if the download link is broken.

How to install BeaconThings on your iOS device:

  • Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to the App Store.
  • Once the BeaconThings is shown in the iTunes listing of your iOS device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the GET button to the right of the app to start downloading it.
  • If you are not logged-in the iOS appstore app, you'll be prompted for your your Apple ID and/or password.
  • After BeaconThings is downloaded, you'll see an INSTALL button to the right. Tap on it to start the actual installation of the iOS app.
  • Once installation is finished you can tap on the OPEN button to start it. Its icon will also be added to your device home screen.



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Downloads: 18
Updated At: 2024-03-20
Publisher: obycode, LLC
Operating System: Ios
License Type: Free