{"id":5605,"date":"2020-09-15T13:59:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T13:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5605"},"modified":"2020-09-15T14:02:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T14:02:01","slug":"add-groupme-members-using-ibeacon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/add-groupme-members-using-ibeacon\/","title":{"rendered":"Add GroupMe Members Using iBeacon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/groupme.com\/en-GB\/\" target=\"_blank\">GroupMe<\/a> is Microsoft&#8217;s free messaging application that works across HoloLens, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/p\/groupme\/9nblggh5z4f2?activetab=pivot:overviewtab\" target=\"_blank\">PC<\/a> and mobile devices. GroupMe is published by the Skype part of Microsoft.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"671\" height=\"419\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/groupmepc.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5606\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/groupmepc.png 671w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/groupmepc-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We recently learnt that it&#8217;s possible to <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/office\/what-is-ibeacon-in-groupme-a52bb672-54d0-4c27-b243-286e65f7a919\" target=\"_blank\">use iBeacon to add members<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is another example of an application adding iBeacon support as a side feature as opposed to using iBeacon to drive the main purpose of the application. Applications can gain ease of use by using iBeacons for locating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/ibeacon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">View iBeacons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GroupMe is Microsoft&#8217;s free messaging application that works across HoloLens, PC and mobile devices. GroupMe is published by the Skype part of Microsoft. We recently learnt that it&#8217;s possible to use iBeacon to add members. This is another example of an application adding iBeacon support as a side feature as opposed to using iBeacon to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/add-groupme-members-using-ibeacon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Add GroupMe Members Using iBeacon&#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":[276,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605"}],"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=5605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5610,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5605\/revisions\/5610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}