The Eddystone stuff does look interesting, though IMO it's only a marginal
improvement over QR codes. Unfortunately until it's widely supported in
phones out of the box it's a bit "on hold" - and I do wonder if there's
still a discoverability issue (which QR codes get over by being - ahem -
"aesthetically dubious") . We'll have to wait and see how and if it gets
added to device operating systems.
Good news is that all the big beacon vendors appear to be supporting it, so
any investment in beacon infrastructure now isn't wasted as you can switch
iBeacons to and from Eddystone if it does become a popular choice.
Also a big tick to the TP-Link routers, these little things are amazing,
though we roll our own firmware for them from the OpenWRT source. I can see
running WordPress on them usefully would be somewhat challenging...!
Best regards,
Nick
On 29 February 2016 at 10:22, Mike Ellis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Eddystone does look super-interesting, thanks John - also James.
>
> I had a play with Librarybox, but found it a bit restrictive. We’re
> fiddling instead with running WordPress on a local RPi so it spits out a
> localised network, much as you describe. It’s very much a feasible thing
> now the Pi is getting more powerful. And - just launched in the last couple
> of days is the Pi 3, which is even more feature rich, and £30 - this has
> in-built wifi among other things. Mine’s in the post but I’ll let you know
> how I get on when it arrives :-)
>
> tt
>
> Mike
>
>
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> On 29 February 2016 at 10:06:38, James Grimster ([log in to unmask])
> wrote:
>
> to add to John's note .... and this beacon ID URL can be passed to
> extremely cheap TP-Link based routers hacked with http://librarybox.us to
> deliver location specific
> content - the routers are about £30 each ; set up a repeater network of
> them
>
> all best
>
> James
>
> On 27 Feb 2016, at 18:57, John Sear wrote:
>
> > These were announced
> > last summer and have the added advantage of being able to send a URL with
> > their Beacon information.
>
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