BEEKS Beacon Maker iOS

Owned by Lutz Hennig
Last updated: Dec 11, 2015
2 min read

Description

BEEKS Beacon Maker gets developers started fast and easy with our wide range of BEEKS Bluetooth Beacon products.


CREATE BEACONS
• Set up configurations for large quantities of beacons
• Rapidly deploy them to your BEEKS Bluetooth Beacons using our AutoDeployment feature


CONTROL YOUR BEACONS
• Keep track of your stack by naming your Beacons, adding comments and providing location information
• Manage your Beacons’ settings such as transmit power and broadcast rate
• Enable or disable iBeacon ranging capabilities
• Set iBeacon UUID, Major and Minor values
• Setup Energy Saving to preserve battery life
• Automatically update to our latest firmware


TEST YOUR BEACONS
• View all BEEKS Bluetooth Beacons within the range of your device 
• Scan for created Beacons and verify their settings
• Try our included iBeacon demos to experiment with the effects of your Beacon settings and to get an idea of the real-life possibilities of Bluetooth Beacons


CUSTOMIZE YOUR EXPERIENCE
• Create and prepare BEEKS Bluetooth Beacons for your own purposes
• Create your own custom Apps using our SDK
• Register for online access to BluVision's Developer Portal for SDKs


This app only works with our own BEEKS Bluetooth Beacons. Sold separately.

Please note that your device needs to be Bluetooth 4.0 compatible. Supported devices include:
Apple iPhone 4S,
Apple iPhone 5, 
Apple iPhone 5C,
Apple iPhone 5S
Apple iPhone 6
Apple iPhone 6 Plus
Apple iPad (3rd and 4th gen)
Apple iPad Air
Apple iPad Mini
Apple iPod Touch (5th gen)

The BEEKS Beacon Maker iOS app is currently available in the App Store:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beeks-beacon-maker/id943786343?mt=8&uo=4

 

Revision history:

Version
Build
1.293060
1.282820
1.272600
1.252300
1.121230

Known issues:

Version 1.29 - Build 3060

  1. Failed to write Eddystone URL advertisement data
    Writing a beacon configuration may fail for factory fresh beacons when Eddystone URL broadcasts are disabled in the configuration.
    This issue can be circumvented by first writing a configuration with Eddystone URL broadcasts being enabled using a valid URL. 

Change log:

Version 1.29 Build 3060

  • Introducing calibrated RSSI to allow for more accurate beacon sorting
  • Bug fixes

Version 1.28 Build 2820

  • Added continuous Beacon txPower control
  • UI fixes
  • Bug fixes

Version 1.27 Build 2600

  • Full Support for Eddystone beacon advertisement formats
  • Parse Eddystone advertisement information
  • Setup Eddystone beacon broadcasts
  • Updated beacon firmware with Eddystone beacon support
  • Added support for USB powered beacon models
  • Flexible beacon txPower setup
  • Minor bugfixes

Version 1.25 Build 2300

  • Full Support for iOS 8 and iPhone 6 / 6 Plus.
  • BEEKS helps you identify your beacons by automatically enabling a beacon's LED and buzzer when you read from or write to it.
  • Firmware updates for our iBEEK, BEEKS Extend and BEEKS Pro beacons.
  • Configurations can now be auto-deployed to beacons with outdated firmware. The firmware will be updated automatically.
  • Fine grained advertisement rate setup. Set the advertisement rate of your beacons from 0.2 Hz up to 10 Hz in 0.1 Hz steps.
  • Individual advertisement rate and transmission power setup for sBeacon and iBeacon advertisements.
  • Individual advertisement rate and transmission power setup for a beacon's standard and energy saving mode.
  • Individual transmission power settings for each beacon type. BEEKS Extend beacons can now be set up to broadcast with up to +4 dBm. iBEEK beacons can go up to +5 dBm and all the way down to -50 dBm.

Version 1.12 Build 1230

  • Initial App Store release