@wannabee @thatgirl tuica (sorry ro keyboard not installed) is very nice 😁

@wannabee UK, she studies there so it's not too different. I have a close friend from Ukraine and visited a few years ago so I am somewhat initiated into eastern European ways.

Thanks, if I wasn't saving this whiskey for her father I'd do the same 😂

@wannabee 😅 thanks

@wannabee Bacau

"medium APK size" 😂😂😂

@deadPix3l the beacons do not report, they are coin cell powered for cost reasons. Saves hard wiring into the building. Although implementations for smaller numbers of beacons that are network connected do exist

@sbiewald haven't had time to do any more work on it. It works, I used it last semester, I just haven't made a beacon that cycles through all the rooms yet to really screw with them.

And yes, you could probably spoof it directly in software but that would require everyone to do something (whereas my method can get them as long as they have BT on) and probably they'd need rooted phones

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@Irithyll 😂 the pi has a purpose, it turns the almost free speaker into a Sonos play equivalent

@Irithyll the guts of this speaker were dead so I replaced them with some cheapo AliExpress parts 🙈 and added a pi ofc

@Irithyll just a generic motivational Spotify playlist 😅 that's actually an interface for mopidy called iris. ( https://github.com/jaedb/Iris https://www.mopidy.com )

(drawer open to display how many adafruit packages await to be used on side projects)

Start clean, get messy, clean it, get messy... shit infinite loop irl, how to debug? 😂

@devios1 I almost posted that as a reply myself 😂😂

@deadPix3l got one of these for prototyping: https://adafruit.com/product/3406/

Ah another side project 🙈

@deadPix3l oh yes I'm quite aware of that 😂, I would just need to find a suitably low powered Bluetooth stack, preferably low cost too

@finiteAutomaton that might be good to experiment with but I already have a few pi0s performing this task quite well.

A low power attiny arrangement would be cool enough to draw my time towards it because then it would be a lot easier to hide if I attempt to register everyone

@deadPix3l although now you have me intrigued 😂, do you have any recommendations for Bluetooth stacks?

@deadPix3l that's a good idea but I don't really have enough time for yet another involved side project being as I already have something that works 😂

@deadPix3l exactly! That is my plan, I was thinking about using the Students Union. The main restriction with raspberry pi beacons are they need a power source (obviously they are much more versatile) whereas the ones in the rooms are just powered by a tiny battery

@finiteAutomaton no, the beacons are fixed in each room and your phone waits to see Bluetooth announcements but since they're beacons, doesn't actually connect

@nate yeah it is a commercial system they've bought into, they clearly liked it because it requires minimal hardware investment (in comparison to RFID readers at every room entrance)

Don't really want to give away the name on the off chance of finding one of their devs here

@EvilArcher and soon you simply won't hear anything 😅

@Cheeseus everything just stops working and the program has to be manually restarted by kicking the server

'Accidentally' break incoming emails, that usually helps