Gimbal beacon discovery

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Mihai Popa picture Mihai Popa · Jan 23, 2014 · Viewed 15.6k times · Source

Is it possible to discover Gimbal beacons using the iOS SDK? I want to use simple ranging but I don't know the UUID of the transmitter.

Answer

Sergey picture Sergey · Mar 26, 2014

YES, you can use Gimbals as iBeacons. You have to re-configure it using iBeacon configuration. Login to Gimbal website, create an account if you don't have one. https://proximity.gimbal.com/

Open Proximity tab. Click on Manage Configuration button at the top and create new configuration, select iBeacon as beacon type, assign UUID, major and minor. You can choose any UUID you'd like.

Now register your Gimbal beacon, and select your new configuration. You must open the beacon to get to the Factory ID that is required to register.

Download Gimbal manager app for iPhone, open it, select "Configure" option. Open Gimbal and remove battery, put the batter back in, and you should see your beacon in the Gimbal Manager app, click the Update button.

That's it, now you your Gimbal is in iBeacon mode.

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