On the "aesthetically dubious" front - has anyone tried Visual QR Codes?
Currently it seems a paid-for service only: http://www.visualead.com/
Cheers
On 29 February 2016 at 10:47, Nick Clarey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 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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> >
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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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