I use these beacons with the Beacon Locator (also available on F-Droid).

I've been running it for about a year and it's been a relatively solid implementation. Once in a while I have to rerun the "Out of Range" task.

Beacon Locator can't be used as a profile. It can execute tasks though. So, there's an "In Range" and "Out of Range" task. Both tasks update their own timestamp variable. The profile is true when the "In Range" timestamp is greater than the "Out of Range" timestamp.

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This was a fun exercise for the time, but not sure I would suggest it currently. Apple never moved further with iBeacons, so you still need a 3rd party app (like Launch Center Pro $$) running on your phone, in order to detect the beacon and trigger something.

Sometimes you also need some pretty sketchy looking 3rd party apps to program the iBeacon itself.

I've used beacons from Radius Networks (amazon has them: RadBeacon ) with success. Some of the other ones I bought (SocialRetail) completely died a few months after purchase.

If you have a Mac you can also setup an iBeacon on it without any additional hardware (if you just wanted to test it out) with the command:

Check here: https://www.beaconzone.co.uk/blog/make-your-mac-advertise-ibeacon/