iPhone 5C iOS 8.1 issue

[onskulis]

Hello,

I just updated estimote SDK from 1.3.0 to 2.2.1 to be able to communicate with beacons in iOS 8. Followed your articles to set up location update and I noticed funny behavior.

I can monitore in background/foregroud, but when I range I always get empty list of beacons. My UUID is of course changed, not the original estimote UUID. Why is that?

[onskulis]

New version of your SDK also doesnt work with iPhone 5S iOS 7.1.2, it monitores regions but on ranging always returns empty list of beacons.

[martinklimek]

Hi @onskulis, We've tested on iOS 7.1.2 and on our end examples app works fine properly ranging beacons. Are you ranging for correct region?

[onskulis]

For sure. Otherwise my code wouldnt work with SDK 1.3. Am I able to range only estimoteRegion in 2.2.1 ? I mean I can monitore for my beacons region, then delegates methods are called, for same region I start to range and I always get empty list.

[martinklimek]

Can you paste your code for ranging?

[onskulis]

-(void)start { self.BeaconManager = [[ESTBeaconManager alloc] init]; self.BeaconManager.delegate = self;

self.BeaconRegion = [[ESTBeaconRegion alloc] initWithProximityUUID:[[NSUUID alloc] initWithUUIDString:@"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"] identifier:@"myIdent"]; //xxxxxx is my UUID

//self.BeaconRegion.notifyEntryStateOnDisplay = YES;
//self.BeaconRegion.notifyOnEntry = YES;

[self.BeaconManager startMonitoringForRegion:self.BeaconRegion];
[self.BeaconManager requestAlwaysAuthorization];

}

• (void)beaconManager:(ESTBeaconManager )manager didEnterRegion:(ESTBeaconRegion )region { NSLog(@"inside region::: %@", region); [self.BeaconManager startRangingBeaconsInRegion:region]; ///Here iOS8 and iOS7.1.2 iPhones find the region of beacon }
• (void)beaconManager:(ESTBeaconManager )manager didRangeBeacons:(NSArray )beacons inRegion:(ESTBeaconRegion *)region { NSLog(@"ranged in region:: %@", region); NSLog(@"%@", beacons); //here im able to see same region but no beacons at all. if ([beacons count] >= 1) { NSLog(@"found more than 1"); [self.BeaconManager stopRangingBeaconsInRegion:region]; int size = [self giveRandomOfBeacon:((unsigned int)[beacons count])]; self.Beacon = [beacons objectAtIndex:(unsigned long)size]; } }

[onskulis]

Is there something wrong with my code?

[heypiotr]

There was a bug in how the region parameter was being passed into the didEnterRegion delegate. Since you were using that "buggy" region to start ranging, this could've been the reason why ranging was returning an empty list of beacons. This has since been fixed—try the newest version of the SDK.