I was trying to register a Google Beacon using the Beacon Tools Android app. However, on tapping "Register as Ephemeral ID", I get the following message:
I'm wondering if there is a way to get the password. As far as I know, this beacon was never used or registered.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
what kind of Beacons are you using? Depending on the manufactor they may have a special function to become unlocked. I'm using Beacons from Beaconinside and they have a small button on the circuit board that I have to press when I want to configure them. To register such a Beacon with EID I need to press the button and afterwards I have to enter 32 '0' into the "Unlock Beacon" dialog.
You should ask the manufactor of your Beacons for more details.
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On my iPhone 7 OS 14.3 Google Assistant app shows no microphone or keyboard leaving me without the ability to do much. How can I activate the mic and/or keyboard? Microphone is enabled in Privacy and in Settings->Assistant.
First, make sure:
Your Google Nest or Home speaker or display is powered on and plugged into a wall outlet.
The microphone isn't muted.
For Google Home: On the back of the device, touch the microphone mute button. Your Assistant will say whether the microphone is muted.
For Google Nest Mini (2nd gen) and Google Home Mini (1st gen): On the side of the device, toggle the mic switch. Your Assistant will say whether the microphone is muted.
For Google Nest Audio: On the back of the device, next to the power cord, toggle the mic switch. Your Assistant will say whether the microphone is muted.
For Google Nest displays: On the back of your display, use the switch to turn on the microphone. Your Assistant will say whether the microphone is muted.
The LED dots on top of your speaker or display will spin or blink when you say “Ok Google” or "Hey Google."
If your Assistant answers other questions, try to ask the unanswered question in a different way.
General troubleshooting
If you've checked off all of the steps above and your Assistant still doesn't provide an answer, try one of the steps below and ask your question again. If you still don't get an answer, move to the next step.
Step 1. Reboot your speaker or display
Disconnect the power cable from your device.
Reconnect the power cable.
Step 2. Make sure your device recognizes the hotword
Say “Hey Google” to your speaker or display. Check if the LED dots on the top of your device spin or blink, indicating that it recognized the hotword.
Step 3. Make sure your device recognized the question correctly
Ask your Assistant the question again.
Say "Hey Google, repeat the question" to make sure your Assistant understood you correctly.
If it's still not recognizing the question, try to speak slower or try another question.
Step 4. Adjust the hotword sensitivity of your device
If your speaker or display often has trouble activating when you say “Hey Google” or "Ok Google,” you can adjust how sensitive Google Assistant is to “Hey Google.”
Advanced troubleshooting
If your Assistant still can't answer the question, submit a feedback report from the Google Home app.
OS 14.4 already exit. You can update! If dont help reset to factory! It may help you.
how to detect beacon signal and do we need to make any app to manage it or any predefined app or site is available?
I want to know how Beacon works and which Beacon is suitable for retail.
You need a mobile phone with Bluetooth 4.0 to detect beacons. They emit a BLE signal which is a little different from the normal Bluetooth signal. There are many generic apps in the play store and maybe in the app store to detect them.
But if you are looking for real functionality related to that, then you'll be needing the retail store-specific mobile app so that it can show you relevant updates in the app.
Every time I try to register the beacon on the google beacon tools app on andriod I add the location but it does not seem to let me register it, The register beacon text is greyed out. Is there any way to register the beacon?
I suspect that you are trying to register an Eddystone-URL (or maybe Eddystone-EID) beacon. The Beacon Tools App will only let you register iBeacon or Eddystone-UID beacons. It will detect some other types of beacon broadcasts, but only supports these two frame types. I have seen this in the Beacon Tools App, that when I detect an Eddystone-URL broadcast, I can touch on it, but "Register Beacon" is greyed out.
Here you can see that Google says to use Eddystone-UID (or EID, but that setup is more complicated). And here they say that iBeacon is also supported for Nearby Notifications.
It may be you have already register that beacon to other project.
If not, then create one project on Google API Console.
And select your project on Beacon Tools App and then proceed.
Your beacon must be configured as Eddystone. otherwise Beacon Tools App will not detect.
try it
As #David said, if you used Eddystone URL, the register option on beacon tools would be greyed out.
But only enabling Eddystone UID would not work for me either, because beacon tools would not recognize my beacon at all. What I did to make this work was to enable both iBeacon and Eddystone UID during configuration.
After you register your beacon on beacon tools, you need to refresh the "registered" list to see it appears there. Or go to the Google developer dashboard of your project.
I'm new in beacons and I don't understand how the application manages the signals of the beacons. Because the app can receive in a short period of time many signals from the beacon. How the application does to manage that repeated signal? If for example a beacon sends a message and half a second latter the same beacon sends another message then the application get two signals of the same beacon. It means that each time the beacon sends a message the app shows a an add to the user? or how the application knows that this message was already displayed by the app?
Beacons do not send messages to users. They only transmit a unique numeric identifier over and over again, at a typical rate of 1-10 times per second. That's it! That is all they do!
Most of the functionality people associate with beacons is really provided by software that runs on a mobile phone, or even running on cloud servers. An iOS framework or an Android library detects the beacon transmissions and converts them to one of two basic event notifications for mobile apps to process:
Beacon appeared/disappeared (called monitoring)
Beacon is still in range at an estimated distance (called ranging).
By using monitoring events, mobile apps are told when beacons first appear, and can then convert the beacon's unique identifier into a message to be displayed to the user via a lookup table bundled with the app or on a cloud server. Thanks to the monitoring event notifications, the message only displays once for each time the beacon is first detected by the phone. It will be displayed again only once the beacon goes out of range and comes back in range again.
Is there a way to get output through the iPhone's dock connecter.
For example: i have a regular LED and i want to make an application that turns this LED on when pressed on a certain button.
Does an API exists, which enables me to transmit something out through some part of the dock connector?
To get the details of the dock connector, you have to sign up for the hardware developers license through http://developer.apple.com/programs/mfi/
Unless you are a corporation enrolled in the MFi program, you might have better luck using the audio jack to get (modulated) control signals out from a stock iPhone.