Does anyone know how you actually use this? I built the project and ran it then enabled Bluetooth on my Mac and iPhone somewhat expecting to receive a notification of the iBeacon but got nothing. Does it have to be coupled with an iOS app to work or can it send notifications even without an app installed?<p>EDIT: Figured it out - You need an iOS app as well. There's one that can locate and display iBeacon info here: <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/locate-for-ibeacon/id738709014?mt=8" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/locate-for-ibeacon/id7387090...</a><p>I'm a little disappointed. The use case I had in mind was: Customer walks into a store with iBeacons and is given a notification that they tap which installs the app. I suppose this would have too much potential for abuse though.
Another free tool for iBeacon development – Beacon Scanner (OSX) <a href="http://bits.hugeinc.com/?p=613" rel="nofollow">http://bits.hugeinc.com/?p=613</a>
I was actually trying to figure out recently if this was possible. Could be very handy for certain app uses; I know lots of smaller stores use iMacs or other Macs for certain things.