Use beacons with LINE

With LINE Beacon, your bot receives beacon webhook events whenever a LINE user enters a beacon region. You can customize your bot app to interact with users with LINE Beacon in the context that suits your business needs.

Prepare beacon devices

To use LINE Beacon, you need a Bluetooth® Low Energy beacon device to link to your LINE Official Account. You can use one of the following types of devices:

• A beacon device that supports LINE Beacon. These devices are only supported in their countries.
  • Supported devices in Japan are available here.
  • Supported devices in Thailand are available here.
• A Bluetooth® Low Energy device that uses the LINE Simple Beacon specification.

Link beacon to LINE Official Account

To link your LINE Official Account to a beacon, open the beacon registration page from the LINE Official Account Manager. From the registration page, link a LINE Beacon compatible device to your LINE Official Account. You can also issue a LINE Simple Beacon hardware ID for the device.

Receive a webhook event

When a user who meets the following conditions enters your beacon region, your bot server receives beacon webhook events:

• The user who have Bluetooth and the LINE Beacon settings on the user's LINE activated
• The user who added the LINE Official Account that was linked to the bot app as a friend in advance

To try to trigger a beacon webhook event:

1. Make sure that Bluetooth is activated on your smartphone.
2. Enable Use LINE Beacon from Settings > Privacy on LINE.
3. Make sure that the beacon device is powered on. Bring your smartphone into the beacon range.
4. See if your bot server receives a beacon event object.

Here is an example of a beacon event object:

{
  "destination": "xxxxxxxxxx",
  "events": [
    {
      "replyToken": "nHuyWiB7yP5Zw52FIkcQobQuGDXCTA",
      "type": "beacon",
      "mode": "active",
      "timestamp": 1462629479859,
      "source": {
        "type": "user",
        "userId": "U4af4980629..."
      },
      "webhookEventId": "01FZ74A0TDDPYRVKNK77XKC3ZR",
      "deliveryContext": {
        "isRedelivery": false
      },
      "beacon": {
        "hwid": "d41d8cd98f",
        "type": "enter"
      }
    }
  ]
}

Beacon banner

The beacon banner is a banner that appears over the user's Chats screen when your beacon detects a LINE user.

With a tap on the banner, you can let users add your LINE Official Account linked to the beacon as a friend if they haven't added the account as a friend.

When the users tap the beacon banner, the web page specified by the LINE Official Account opens. Also, you can make the users receive a message from your LINE Official Account at the very spot they tapped the banner.