Today's total pile of horse dookie is courtesy frequent-flyer #ESPhome. The latest release completely broke #BLE (and by extension, my #bigear)

Weirdly, #homeassistant can still "see" the tags, with it's broken distance calculation (weighted average?) and useless "source" field.

I'd file a bug but I am not arguing with #stalebot again. (And even their humans are not great.)

#homeautomation #snarkhome #esp32 #ibeacon

Is there a free software privacy-respecting alternative to #Chipolo, #Tile, Samsung #SmartTag and Apple #AirTag? It's not these companies owning our devices, but us end users instead. We should be in control.

Ideally, the alternative would work for all the tracking devices and we wouldn't need a separate app for each. Even better, we would benefit from having one community that crowd-sources location updates across all of the deceivingly disparate #BLE tag variants.

#iBeacon #FOSS

My wife and me wanted to swap the ownership of a #Chipolo One tag (i.e., who adds the tag first to their app). First me as a non-owner removed it from my app, then her from her app. Trying to add the tag again ("pairing" as it's called in the app) failed on both of our phones as the tag was locked on the Chipolo server after the removal. Why, oh why is it locked? Now we are at the mercy of Chipolo customer support to unlock it for us. What an #AntiFeature.

#iBeacon #DeviceTracking

Are Apple iBeacons still a thing? Are they actively being developed? HomeKit/Matter/Thread compatible? 🤔

Apple made a big deal out of them when they were first announced, seems like they’ve fallen off the map.

#Apple #iBeacon

Web page still live:

https://developer.apple.com/ibeacon/