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February 2022: New button features available for Smart Badge and Asset Tag 2

  • Updated

We launched the following new features to provide additional button features for both the Smart Badge and Asset Tag 2.

Policy Foundry: New RED button click condition

You can now set a policy’s condition to monitor RED button clicks.

This new condition was added to Beacon Signals as a Button Click option. When set to the Second Button, a RED button press results in button-click event and the policy’s action is triggered. Before this release, the Button Click condition was only triggered when a device's BLUE button was pressed.

If you already have a policy’s condition set to Button Click, it remains the same and triggers an action when the device's BLUE button is pressed. Although, you’ll notice the Button Click condition has been set to the Default Button.

Please note the condition button labels will be updated in the next release to specify the blue and red button.

button-condition-selection.png

Note

By default, a button-click event is triggered by a single-click. The Smart Badge and Asset Tag can also be configured for triple-click button events - see the below new feature.

Learn more about Policy Foundry.

Smart Badge & Asset Tag 2: New triple-click button trigger

The Smart Badge and Asset Tag 2 buttons can now be configured to trigger a button-click event when its BLUE or RED button is quickly pressed three consecutive times (triple-click). By default, a single-click triggers a button event.

We introduced this feature to provide an additional button-click monitoring option. This may also be helpful to reduce false button presses that may occur when set to the default single-click button event.

Note

The button config, either a single- or triple-click, applies to both of the BLUE and RED buttons. A device cannot be configured to set one button to single-click and the other button to a triple-click.

Device Management API: set device button to triple-click

To config a device's buttons to triple-click, set its buttonFeatures property to TRIPLE_CLICK.

Create Config endpoint

button-triple-click-config.png

Location & Occupancy API: Telemetry endpoint updates

The following provides related updates made to the Telemetry schema model and its properties. Related endpoints include Retrieve telemetry by source and Retrieve telemetry by Tracking ID.

Update Released

Property

Description

New property

secondButtonClickCounter

(number)

Click counter for second button (RED button).

Description update

clickCounter

(number)

Click counter for default button (BLUE button).

Property name change

timeSinceDoubleClick

has been changed to:

timeSinceClick

Time since click.

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