{"id":5108,"date":"2020-06-25T11:08:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T11:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5108"},"modified":"2020-06-25T11:08:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T11:08:27","slug":"indigo-mac-home-automation-uses-ibeacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/indigo-mac-home-automation-uses-ibeacons\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigo Mac Home Automation Uses iBeacons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of our customers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcpartners.nl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">McPartners<\/a> in the Netherlands has been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indigodomo.com\/pluginstore\/59\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">piBeacon<\/a> with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indigodomo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Indigo<\/a> to provide for home automation on the Mac. You can read their <a href=\"https:\/\/forums.indigodomo.com\/viewtopic.php?f=187&amp;t=23512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">success story on the Indigo forums<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/indigo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5109\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/indigo.png 500w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/indigo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/indigo-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 85vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>They started using beacon instead of RFID because RFID cards they were using were becoming more expensive than iBeacons and becoming scarce. They wanted tags they could second source, have a long battery life, long range and easy setup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have found the Indigo\/piBeacon combination reliable, fast and have told us it works with all the Axaet, AnkhMaway and Minew beacons purchased from us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our customers McPartners in the Netherlands has been using piBeacon with Indigo to provide for home automation on the Mac. You can read their success story on the Indigo forums. They started using beacon instead of RFID because RFID cards they were using were becoming more expensive than iBeacons and becoming scarce. They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/indigo-mac-home-automation-uses-ibeacons\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Indigo Mac Home Automation Uses iBeacons&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,193],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5110,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5108\/revisions\/5110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}