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sandeepmistry / node-bleacon

A Node.js library for creating, discovering, and configuring iBeacons
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Unable to create a beacon on OSX Yosemite #17

Closed line-o closed 9 years ago

line-o commented 10 years ago

This seems to be an OS issue. It is also impossible to start advertising a beacon signal with several native applications.

sandeepmistry commented 10 years ago

Agreed, couldn't get it working on my Mac either. Lines up with: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25492316/cbperipheralmanager-startadvertising-not-working-on-os-x-yosemite

Any proposals on how to move forward? Error callback or event?

line-o commented 10 years ago

Since it is breaking completely why not just throw an Error ...

sandeepmistry commented 9 years ago

Thanks, good suggestion!

I've pushed a change to bleno: https://github.com/sandeepmistry/bleno/commit/f3973b6edbc90eb1592d28b98ca570aa89756582 - the underlying library bleacon uses for iBeacon advertising