Is it possible to discover Gimbal beacons with standard iOS libraries

Question

I’m trying to determine about “discovering” Gimbal beacons with standard iOS libraries. According to Radius Networks and Blue Sense Networks - Gimbal beacons do not broadcast st

Answer 1

I haven't worked with the Gimbal beacons directly yet (I did order some of their $5 beacons and should receive them soon) but I did talk to a customer service rep. Their beacons have three broadcast modes. One mode is iPhone-compatible, the signal is unencrypted. Another mode is the 'proprietary signal' mode, this is where it sends out an encrypted packet. When it gets received by an application on a phone you have to send the packet to the Gimbal service over the internet for decryption and you get back the contents. I don't yet know if all Gimbal beacons running in encrypted mode can be interrogated in this way or just ones you registered - or maybe you can select public or private. The third broadcast mode toggles between the other two modes.

--update; I received the beacons and turned one on. I do not have an iPhone, only Android. The Gimbal Manager runs only on iPhone. I do have an iPad, but amazingly the Gimbal Manager is not compatible with iPad! As a result I was not able to configure the beacon, will have to borrow someone's iPhone to do it. I wrote a simple BTLE scanner app for my Android phone and it detects the beacon, but the address shows as a different value on each scan. Apparently this is the behavior in Gimbal mode.