nRF51822 and iOS8

[matija]

Hi, we've been using nRF51822 for developing application and iOS 7.x detect then just fine. Since I upgraded to iOS 8. Beacons are 'invisible' to our application. I was wondering is somebody else is experiencing the same problem.

If I create beacon with the same proximity UUID it gets detected.

When I sniffed the traffic I noticed that header of packages if a bit different. Could this be a problem?

[cocoa]

iOS 8 can't scan for iBeacons anymore

Scanning for unknown iBeacons is banned starting from iOS8.

Now you can 'see' an iBeacon only if you know its UUID.

-c

[matija]

I believe this is not the case here. I always create a region with UUID and identifier (I also tried to set major and minor) and beacons are not detected.

Side note: If I create "the same" beacon with another iPhone my application detects it

Side note: I tried to run Nordic's demo app on my iPhone but it crashes

[matija]

Ok, I figured it out.

I had to change Company identifier code from 0x0059 (Nordic Semiconductor) to 0x004C (Apple).

The only explanation I can get from that is that Apple started to 'monitor' this specification, because iOS 7 worked just fine.

[Chris]

Nice find.. we're been using the 0x004C so didn't have a problem, but good to note!

[matija]

Chris yeah I've been banging my head against the wall/computer for the past two day :/ Can you please mark my answer as correct (I can't mark it my self because I wrote it and I have to have at least 30 points to do that) thx