#Radbeacon usb android#
The Android RadBeacon app generally worked, although I often had to press "Apply" several times and restart Bluetooth before new settings would actually take hold. You configure it with a phone app built for that particular beacon product line. I haven't dug into the pros and cons of these different formats yet I just wanted something that was likely to work out of the box with both my Samsung S6 Android phone and my wife's iPhone. I also chose this one because it supports Google's Eddystone open beacon format, Apple's iBeacon format, and Radius Network's AltBeacon. At the right you can see mine plugged into a conference swag phone recharger. Most need batteries, typically the kind you put in a watch, so to avoid this I got a RadBeacon USB from Radius Technologies that draws its power from any USB port where you plug it in. You can find these beacons for as little as $14, and even cheaper on eBay, where colorful bracelet versions can cost less then $10. When the appropriate app on your phone (or perhaps your phone's operating system) saw this, it would alert you to the availability of this localized information. Advocates often cite the use case of how a beacon device located near a work of art in a museum might broadcast a URL pointing to a web page about it-for example, one near Robert Rauschenberg's Bed in New York's Museum of Modern Art could broadcast the URL, their web site's page with information about the work.
BLE, which I assume is pronounced "bleh"). I've been hearing about proximity beacons lately and thought it would be fun to try one of these inexpensive devices that broadcast a URL for a range of just a few meters via Bluetooth Low Energy (a.k.a.
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