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Blue Charm Beacons BC011-MultiBeacon: Long Range BLE 5.0 Bluetooth Beacons with Battery Level Broadcast Review

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Description of Blue Charm Beacons BC011-MultiBeacon: Long Range BLE 5.0 Bluetooth Beacons with Battery Level Broadcast

Our new generation compact beacon with a unique button trigger option. Long Range BLE 5.0 but also compatible with BLE 4.0. Shows battery level in broadcast. Button can be configured to trigger different broadcast. Broadcasts your choice of iBeacon, Eddystone TLM, Eddystone URL, and/or Eddystone UID format. Eddystone TLM broadcasts battery strength, temperature, and broadcast count data every tenth broadcast. (This is NOT an Eddystone URL beacon for broadcasting your website or ad message to nearby phones. That service has been SHUTDOWN WORLDWIDE by Google as of Dec 6, 2018.). Free configuration apps for iPhone & Android allow you to adjust settings according to your needs. Transmit distance: 0.2-90 meters when using BLE 5.0. Selectable TX levels: -40, -20, -16, -12, -8, -4, 0, +4dBm. Our website has very detailed step-by-step instructions with multiple screenshots under the Quick Start Guide menu.

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Revainrating 5 out of 5

These beacons just work!

I bought 5 of these to use with my Raspberry Pi 4B project BeaconAir. BeaconAir monitors the Raspberry Pi in the house using trileration and triangulation of iBeacons and controls the lights in the house to turn on and off nearby lights. The project was great and I've added it to the book I'm writing.

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Revainrating 5 out of 5

Works out of the box, easy to set up!

I purchased this beacon after checking with the BlueCharm Beacon support staff (they responded within a few hours of my request) because I am familiar with beacon scanning from an iOS app using CoreBluetooth and not the Beacon API wanted to experiment in CoreLocation. Since iBeacons are not normally recognized by CoreBluetooth, I needed a beacon that could advertise in other formats like Eddystone. I was able to successfully scan Eddystone's UID and TLM payloads (I'll provide BlueCharm with the

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Revainrating 5 out of 5

Buy These Network Adapters

There are several reasons to buy a Blue Charm Beacon (actually any Beacon):1). Few companies make beacons and sell them piece by piece to humble consumers who just want 1 or 2 people to use them to do weird home geofencing projects. Most of the big boys like Estimote no longer sell individual beacons and have definitely stopped supporting them and updating their apps. Other than BlueCharm, there aren't really many proximity beacon sellers on Amazon. Or even in the general network. 2) They work.

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