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Getting Started with iBeacon Part 5: Creating a Simple Treasure Hunt

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In Part 5 of our Getting Started guide we show you how you can create a simple treasure hunt using the locly app and three physical iBeacon devices. So after following the steps described in Part 1 of this tutorial series, here’s what you need to do: 1. Setting up your places and cards: In the app tap on ‘Create New Project‘ Create your first place in your new project. This should contain the first clue and be instructional on what to do. To make sure users can always see…read more

Dec.19
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Getting Started with iBeacon Part 4: Creating Content from Other Apps e.g. Notability

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So far in the series we’ve learned how to create content for your iBeacon, use your device as a beacon and assign content to your iBeacon powered devices. Now we’re going to quickly create some content by sharing it from another app. In this example we’re using Notability, but you can use other apps such as Explain Everything, Evernote, Google Drive and many more! Make sure you’ve been following the steps in the previous tutorials and you’re still logged in to the locly app on your device.

Dec.19
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Getting Started with iBeacon Part 3: Assigning Content to Beacon Devices

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In Part 1 and Part 2 of this tutorial series you created some content for your beacon and shared it with those nearby by using your device as a beacon.  Now we’re going to look at how to assign your content to an iBeacon device e.g. locly beacon, Estimote etc. Make sure you’re still logged in and viewing the card you created earlier. You’ll need your iBeacon device to hand so your device can see it too.

Dec.19
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Getting Started with iBeacon Part 2: Your Device as a Beacon

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This is the second part in our 5 part video tutorial about getting started with the locly app and iBeacons. In this post we explain how to share your content with anyone nearby by turning your device into a beacon. If you haven’t already you might want read the first post about creating beacon content. If you’ve got an iBeacon device in hand ready to go you might want to skip ahead and learn how to assign content to it. You can always come back and learn about this later!…read more

Dec.19
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Getting Started with iBeacon Part 1: Creating Content

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The locly app is an easy to use tool to create content for iBeacon devices in minutes. This is the first part in a series of video tutorials that will help you create and assign your first content to a beacon. The tutorials will start off by showing you how to create some simple content on the locly platform and how to pin this content to a beacon. Once you’ve grasped the basics we will move on and show you can open content you already have in other applications and…read more

Dec.19
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