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Pairing a beacon

Pairing is a single flow that scans for nearby beacons, lets you pick one, calibrates it, and saves it to your venue.

Beacon details

Before you start

  • Make sure your device's Bluetooth is on.
  • Grant beacbeac the Bluetooth and location permissions it asks for. These are required by iOS and Android for beacon scanning.
  • Have the physical beacon powered on and within a couple of metres.
  • Use the mobile app — pairing doesn't work in the web admin.

Pairing steps

  1. From the Admin Dashboard, open Manage Beacons.
  2. Tap + Add New Beacon.
  3. Tap Start Scanning. beacbeac lists every beacon it can hear, closest first.
  4. When you spot the one you want, tap Stop Scanning and then Configure & Pair on that beacon.
  5. Give it a name you'll recognise (e.g. the gallery room or the artwork it's next to).
  6. beacbeac will then run the calibration step — see Calibration. It measures the signal at one metre and records the result as the beacon's measured power.
  7. Link it to an artwork now, or leave it unlinked and link it later from the beacon's edit screen.
  8. Tap Save.

The beacon now appears in your beacon list. Visitors who approach it (and have the visitor app open) will see the linked artwork.

Next step: confirm your calibration is right — see Calibration.