User Guide

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.com
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.org
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.edu
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.net
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.info
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.biz
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.gov
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If a web page is particularly long and has been compressed by over 18 bytes, should
use https://bitly.com/ to shorten the URL and then add it to the beacon device.
Eddystone-URL can be used with Nearby or Physical Web. Nearby notifications
require the website to meet certain requirements, eg HTTPS-only, robots allowed, etc.
The following web link can test that the URL is supported or not.
https://beaufortfrancois.github.io/sandbox/physical-web/url-validator/
Nearby only scan beacons when the users turn on their smartphone’s screen. Therefore
the notification might not appear until the user interacts with their android smartphone.
(as figure14,15)
Figure14 Figure15
If your notification is not performing well (users rarely tap on it, or ignore it, which
can be interpreted as the notification being not that useful), Nearby Notifications might
stop delivering it to the users.
For Eddystone broadcast, user can use free Google Nearby/Physical Web for receiving
notifications.
For iBeacon broadcast, users need to use Google Nearby or a mobile app for receiving
notifications.
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