Decreasing the RSSI value of Puck beacon

[espruino-discuss]

Posted at 2021-01-23 by user124514

Hello,

I have a question about how we can decrease the RSSI to -100? It means the range of RSSI which the Puck transmits to another Puck would start from -100 to -120, -130.....

Some beacons have an app that we can manually configure the RSSI at distance 0, so we can adjust them. But, for Puck I haven’t seen any app like that.

I highly appreciate it if anyone can help me with this issue.

Best.

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2021-01-27 by @gfwilliams

You can use NRF.setTXPower(...) to set the actual transmit power of the Puck.

However I think what you're referring to with:

Some beacons have an app that we can manually configure the RSSI at distance 0

Is actually just a calibration number that gets transmitted in iBeacon advertising packets.

Check out https://www.espruino.com/iBeacon - if you transmit iBeacon packets then you can configure that value