Mavericks as an iBeacon

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Does anyone know how you actually use this? I built the project and ran it then enabled Bluetooth on my Mac and iPhone somewhat expecting to receive a notification of the iBeacon but got nothing. Does it have to be coupled with an iOS app to work or can it send notifications even without an app installed?

EDIT: Figured it out - You need an iOS app as well. There's one that can locate and display iBeacon info here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/locate-for-ibeacon/id7387090...

I'm a little disappointed. The use case I had in mind was: Customer walks into a store with iBeacons and is given a notification that they tap which installs the app. I suppose this would have too much potential for abuse though.

Yes you have to couple it with an app. You can use the https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/locate-for-ibeacon/id7387090... app. Just make sure you have the same UUID you gave to the mac app in your list of registered UUIDs on the iPhone.

Well the notification is for the app. So I think it is not intuitive for the app to notify the customer to install itself. Did you understand what I am trying to explain?

Another free tool for iBeacon development – Beacon Scanner (OSX) http://bits.hugeinc.com/?p=613

I was actually trying to figure out recently if this was possible. Could be very handy for certain app uses; I know lots of smaller stores use iMacs or other Macs for certain things.

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