cannot detect beacons

[John]

Hi, I programmed my nrf51dk with ble_app_beacon and I see a blink every two seconds on the board's led. I started the nrf Beacon app in my iphone 6. I first added a beacon according to the default major and minor values. UUID is the default one. The app just showed "beacon not found" all the time. What did I do wrong?

[Jigney Shah]

Use the master dongle to sniff the advertisement packet. Confirm the manufacturer identifier is 0x0045 or (0x4C, 0x00). If you are not using the config button and automatic detection, confirm the values in the app are exact.

I have been able to get it to work after fixing these things.

[John]

Hey, Jigney. Thanks for you quick response! I just changed the manufacturer id to 0x004C. Apparently, this code is not updated with the policy change.

[Hung Bui]

Hi John, it's correct that if you want the iOS device to detect your device you now need manufacturer id = 0x004C. However this is not applied for Android or Windows phone.

[rvaessen]

Hello John & Jigney, Would you please clarify: Is it the nRF51 ble_app_beacon application, or the iOS nRF Beacons application, or both that need to have the manufacturer ID updated? (Please forgive newbie lack of base knowledge).

Edit: I found the constant APP_COMPANY_IDENTIFIER in main.c of ble_beacon_application and changed its value to 0x004C. Still no luck. I am running able_beacon_application on an nRF51 Dongle DK. On my iPhone 6 running iOS 8.3 I launch the Beacons app, select the Beacons tab, and press the +. At this point I am confused as to whether I should add a Nordic Beacon or an Other Beacon - neither work. Any advice would be much appretiated.

[John]

rvaessen, at this point you should add the beacon as other beacon. Populate the uuid, major and minor fields. Match the uuid with the one you have. For major and minor, make sure you convert hex to decimal. If you still can't find it, try to uninstall the app and reinstall it and repeat the steps above. Best of luck.