I’ve been looking at bluetooth beacon technology to use to program some gadgets around the home that activate when I (my smart phone) is near them. Is there any way to use the Photons Access Point capabilities to “measure” how far away a Smart Phone is (MAC address) based on signal strength?

So its looking promising then. I guess all we need to be able to do on the Photon is: Determine the base TxPower of a known MAC ID (smart phone) and store this somewhere. Spark Cloud :smile: Monitor the respective signal strengths of those MAC ID (smart phone) This big question is will spark ph…

I recently checked with our engineers and the API for interacting with the photon in AP Mode is still “taking shape” so the answer is no, not yet. Check back in a few weeks? Sorry I couldn’t be of more help.

Thanks for checking. Are they taking requests on features? If so I would love to see if they can add the ability to detect proximity. e.g. the Spark Photon to be able to detect a certain smart phone is close, medium or far. I assume this could be done by the Spark if it can monitor the signal st…

Spark Photon - distance calc?

krvarma November 21, 2014, 5:18pm 2

@Gizmo, I have also used the iBeacon for one of my project, I used the distance calculation method described here. I This calculation is used for below project. I am not sure about the Photon Access Point but if we get the RSSI then above calculation can be used to get approximate distance.

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