I'm an iOS developer and I need to test some iBeacon detection. I'd like to use an AirTag to be able to test but I did not find if AirTags are iBeacons?

Can iBeacons work directly with remote servers? in other words can you store notifications or information you want pushed out to users on a server and have that information retrieved from a server when the user gets within range of an iBeacon? I am almost done with building my app but need to store information I want pushed out to users on a remote server rather than locally in my app. For some reason I cannot find a direct answer to this or anywhere online that talks about iBeacons working with servers to populate information to users.

Can an iBeacon range and/or region event (for an iOS app that is not running in the foreground) somehow have a "dynamic" notification send to that iOS device (i.e. a notification text that is not hard coded in the app but rather comes from a server)? An example use case that everyone can relate to is that your local super market implements beacons and that as you walk pass the milk section you get a notification saying "Milk half price for the next half hour" (because the "use-by" date is near). I know I can do local notification with static text (i.e. "welcome to the store") but unsure if I can so something more dynamic.

I heard that developers must specify clearly the list of iBeacon UUID their app is working with, and that each change in this list would require an update. The reason would be to prevent companies to apply "counter-marketing" strategies, using their opponents' iBeacons to broadcast their own coupons. I'm developing a generic app that may let the user input his iBeacon's UUID or fetch them from a server. Would this application be really rejected by the appstore's validation process ?

I'd like to know whether geofenced reminders in Apple's stock Reminders app can use iBeacons to trigger. My use case is that I'd like to place an iBeacon in my home, and trigger reminders when it is detected by iOS/CoreLocation. The default GPS-based location finding can be less than prompt, since GPS reception near my home can be hit-or-miss. I've been unable to find specific confirmation that this is supported in the stock app. I may have to go to something like Proximitask if the stock app doesn't support this use case.

Here's my setup: iMac with BeaconOSX iPhone with Proximitask I am successfully broadcasting a signal and am getting notifications as I come and go to my office. However, the reminders are getting triggered well outside of the building and sometimes rapidly & repeatedly triggering when I'm 5 rooms away just sitting in the conference room. BeaconOSX has 3 values I can adjust (other than the UUID): - major (5) - minor (5000) - measured pwr (currently set at -10) The initial value of measured pwr was -59, and that's when it was triggering things on my phone from outside the building. Increasing that value to -10 seems to have helped somewhat. Today's reminders went off just outside my section of the building, but I'd like it to me as accurate as when I step inside my office. I've read that beacons need to be calibrated, but with just BeaconOSX and Proximitask, I don't think I know how to do that. I also read that increasing measured pwr *increases* the signal strength, making distance estimation more accurate. Is reducing that value also a valid way of preventing the triggerings from happening outside my office? Is there software I can use for calibration?

There has been a lot written in the last day or two about iBeacon. Are there settings I can tweak so that 1. I'm not tracked in stores 2. I won't receive messages about products in my vicinity?

Is it possible to have my MacBook become an iBeacon ? I would like it to broadcast itself to iOS devices which support iBeacons. If this is possible, what are the hardware requirements of the computer (e.g. is Bluetooth 4.0 enough?), and how would I do it? **Update**: I am primarily looking for a way to do this without any additional hardware (since my MacBook already has Bluetooth built-in).