Hi, looking for feedback on feasibility...
Im looking to build a little device which senses when certain people come into my office. And once they do, the device will play an audio file. Sort of like how wrestlers have entrance songs in the WWE.
I've been researching this a bit but keep coming up short. All iBeacon solutions ive seen demo'd all seem to communicate in the reverse direction. For example, you have an app on your phone, you get near a sensor, your app responds. My interest is reverse. The user does not have an app on his phone. The user passes by a sensor. As a result music begins to play on the devise, not on the users phone.
Any thoughts?
My thoughts are that you can not do this. You seem to want to identify an individual but with nothing to help you apart from possibly an image of that individual.
If you want to do that sort of image processing then it is way out of the league of any Arduino and perhaps out of the league of current knowledge.
Thanks Mike. That's what I was thinking. What if I were to go another route?
What if I were to have those folks download an app?
Is there an app out there that I can have them download that would enable them to broadcast or share their iBeacon with me...
And then what would I need for my arduino to listen for that broadcast?
It can be done, probably illegally, by a 'stingray' device.
Once you have the IMSI, the rest is just lookup and mp3 player.
Ray