{"id":6992,"date":"2021-12-08T16:36:46","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T16:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6992"},"modified":"2021-12-08T16:36:47","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T16:36:47","slug":"do-you-have-a-beacon-that-makes-a-sound-when-you-are-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/do-you-have-a-beacon-that-makes-a-sound-when-you-are-near\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have a Beacon That Makes a Sound When You Are Near?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The quick answer is no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The longer answer is that beacons don&#8217;t know if anyone is near because they are not doing the listening. They just send out information. It&#8217;s possible to have a smartphone app see the beacon and the phone make a sound.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/f6_smaller-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6115\" width=\"256\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/f6_smaller-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/f6_smaller-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/f6_smaller-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/f6_smaller-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/f6_smaller.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 85vw, 256px\" \/><figcaption>F6 Tracker Beacon<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>We also have special <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/TrackerBeacons\" target=\"_blank\">tracker type beacons<\/a> to which an app can connect rather than just detect. Once connected, the app can cause the beacon to ring. However, only one app user can connect at a time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The quick answer is no. The longer answer is that beacons don&#8217;t know if anyone is near because they are not doing the listening. They just send out information. It&#8217;s possible to have a smartphone app see the beacon and the phone make a sound. We also have special tracker type beacons to which an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/do-you-have-a-beacon-that-makes-a-sound-when-you-are-near\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Do You Have a Beacon That Makes a Sound When You Are Near?&#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":[29,120],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992"}],"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=6992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6993,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6992\/revisions\/6993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}