Getting started guide for sample app about ble-indoor-positioning

[Steppschuh]

Completely agree that we need a guide for setting up the app with your own beacons / locations / maps. We'll create a post in our wiki about that in the near future.

[raitani]

Can you please suggest me how to use it?

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[ZaxLofful]

I am really interested in this getting started guide myself. I just found this while doing a bit of research for positioning, here are the things I would love to see as I am a total newbie at the moment:

1. What modules can I use with this? A link to an example would be great, I am looking at a few on Amazon now.
2. What do I have to do to get them setup?
3. Does the app do all the hard work or do I need to deploy a server?

[Steppschuh]

Glad that you're interested in this topic. However, I'm not sure if you understand what this repository is providing.

It's a Java library that allows you to calculate geo-coordinates based on the signal strength of nearby Bluetooth beacons. It also contains a demo app that uses this library to visualize its capabilities.

You are in charge of setting up the Bluetooth beacons and assigning geo-coordinates to them. If you need a server to do so, that's also on you to implement.

[ZaxLofful]

I completely understand that this repo is for, I was merely suggesting a way to up level and get more people interested in your code. I randomly stumbled upon this, but have no idea what beacons to get or how to start attempting this....Even just a link to another GitHub would be cool. Top notch documentation often includes extra relevant information.

[Steppschuh]

I agree that a lot of documentation is still missing. That's because we use and develop this library for internal projects at neXenio and need to maintain this repo besides our regular tasks.

You can use any type of beacon you like, as long as your device can receive their advertising packages. We opted for beacons from blueup, as they are highly configurable and provide a great value for their price. We configured them to advertise iBeacon frames, so that iOS apps can use them for other purposes as well. You can read a bit more about that in this wiki post.