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Saeed Hajizade
Saeed Hajizade

Reputation: 335

How to use a unique identifier in ibeacon?

I am developing an iOS app in which I need to read something unique from my ibeacon which I can change and customize that unique value.

I bought this beacon and there is no way to change it's UUID, major and minor values.

CoreLocation just gives UUID, major and minor values. If I use CoreBluetooth I don't know how can I recognize my beacons from other bluetooth devices and also I don't know if there is a unique value.

Is there any possible way that I can read a unique value from this beacon which I can change?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1001

Answers (2)

Mike Mikina
Mike Mikina

Reputation: 496

UUID, major and minor is your unique value. The way it suppose to work: you should define UUID for your whole set of beacons and use this inside app, then just use major and minor to recognize each beacon.

Each beacon also have it's own unique id, but it's usually not changeable and you can't see this unless you make a direct connection to the beacon.

Upvotes: 1

Radu Diță
Radu Diță

Reputation: 14171

iBeacon protocol only supports UUID, major and minor values. This is by design and you can't change that.

If you do then you're not using iBeacon anymore.

I'm not familiar with that particular hardware but the specs state that you can change UUID, major and minor values.

This is the only information you'll ever get from a beacon and you can't connect to it, this is also by design.

To translate UUID, major and or minor to a unique value means that you need to bake this into the app itself and not rely on the beacon to return this.

One way of doing this is to create a Dictionary that translates UUIDs to unique.

Upvotes: 1

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