nRF51822 bluetooth smart beacon kit not seen on iphone4s

RE: nRF51822 bluetooth smart beacon kit not seen on iphone4s

MANGO — Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:36:52 GMT

Hello, I have the same issue like you.

I use iPhone 5S (iOS 8.1.2). The version of the app is ver 1.2. As you mentioned I pressed SW2 and

at the "Scan" screen, "Beacon Config" appears.

After selecting the beacon, the UUID, Major, Minor and RSSI fields were filled automatically.

Also the Bluetooth Mark next to the phone's battery level icon flashes

(which shows that it is connected.)

However, that doesn't last long. After pressing "Done",

the Bluetooth mark shows that it is disconnected.

Eventually, the iOS app shows this log : "Beacon Not Found".

The kit is well discovered when I test with Nexus 5 and Galaxy Note 3.

What do I have to do?

I confirmed the purple light blinking and iPhone's Privacy settings - location services to enable.

RE: nRF51822 bluetooth smart beacon kit not seen on iphone4s

Tshepo — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 20:16:28 GMT

Finally i got the answer and its as follows:

I believe the steps that solved it for me were:

in iPhone app select "Update" tab. Press SW2 on beacon device -- LED turns 'yellow' major, minor & calibrated RSSI fields became auto-filled (for me this was major: 1, minor: 38, rssi: -69) press SW2 AGAIN (LED goes back to original purple blink mode). in iPhone app select "Beacons" tab -- nRF Beacon is now listed. I believe it's 2nd depressing of SW2 that seemed to be necessary.

hope its useful for someone else.

thanks for the effort

RE: nRF51822 bluetooth smart beacon kit not seen on iphone4s

Tshepo — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 13:25:01 GMT

i have just tested it on a android phone and it worked perfectly but with the IOS its still refusing.

RE: nRF51822 bluetooth smart beacon kit not seen on iphone4s

Asbjørn — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 10:29:02 GMT

I assume you beacon kit is flashing a purple light every 5th second?

Have you enabled "Location services" on the iOS device, especially for the nRFbeacon app. Please go to Privacy settings - location services to enable this.

Do you get the nRFBeacon up on main part of the beacon app? Are you able to read the UUID for beacon?

RE: nRF51822 bluetooth smart beacon kit not seen on iphone4s

Tshepo — Tue, 02 Sep 2014 09:01:49 GMT

I have read chapter 4.3 and also followed the instruction before i started to load the nRF Beacon app and even deleted the app and reinstalled twice but still nothing is seen when i scan it.

i tried to load it manually but the app keeps on stating that the beacon is not found.

what will be the next step?

RE: nRF51822 bluetooth smart beacon kit not seen on iphone4s

Asbjørn — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 13:05:24 GMT

Have you followed the steps described in the Beacon kit user guide: www.nordicsemi.com/.../7429763. Please have a look in chapter 4.3.

Do you have a BLE scanner app on your phone? Are you able to see the Beacon in the scanner app?