mc-Things
mc-Products => mc-Gateway => Topic started by: bdevlin on November 06, 2017, 12:48:17 pm
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Is there an api for reading the beacondata directly from the gateway? My thought is if the beacondata is extremely low power, I can extend battery life on modules by using beacondata instead of Lplan.Publish. Clearly an API exists as mc-Studio can read beacons. How do you plan to expose this API to us? I prefer python. Or what if we could program the gateway to publish beacondata to an mqtt server?
Thanks,
Brad
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The beacon format is in part of the mcStudio download.
Yes beacons are extremely low power. Sending a temprature every minute get you 6 year battery life on a coin-cell.
The download contains the file BeaconWhitePaper.pdf. Beacons are send over UDP or can be sent also to MQTT. There is a .Net example in the doc, which is simple to convert to python.
We will change the web-site to make it easier to find.
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here is the attached document to make it easier. This document is also available on our website (https://www.mcthings.com/products/mcstudio/ )