How to make a difference compared to iBeacon

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AltBeacon Technical Specification

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How to make a difference compared to iBeacon #14

Closed andersborgabiro closed 6 years ago

andersborgabiro commented 9 years ago

Provide the same semantics as in NFC and QR Codes: A free text string (e.g. 100 bytes) for URLs (http:, https:), phone numbers (tel:), SMS (sms:, smsto:), location (geo:), e-mail (mailto:) etc.

The most important would be URLs. Shortened URLs would easily fit in the 20 bytes payload.

Cheers, Anders

mdxs commented 6 years ago

I think this is outside the https://github.com/AltBeacon/spec specification as-is. Perhaps Eddystone-URL is a better fit for your purposes.

andersborgabiro commented 6 years ago

A lot has happened since, and Eddystone-URL is no doubt the answer today for HTTP. Most beacon providers support both iBeacon and Eddystone, but no other method.

mdxs commented 6 years ago

Sure, I was just going through the issues to see if I could answer any. @andersborgabiro Can you close this issue now that it is answered?