Location Scanning API v3 missing expected data

JackReuter
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Location Scanning API v3 missing expected data

Hello,

 

We have the Location Scanning API v3 set up and are ingesting incoming events from it, but the data from it seems unexpectedly sparse. When I look at all clients seen in the last 2 hours, either via the online dashboard or the REST API, I see 5 clients. I would expect to see location events for all them. Only 2 of the 5, however, have location events coming in regularly. The rest have at most one event an hour, some even less than that.

 

Does anyone know if there is a setup step I am missing, or misunderstanding about the behavior of the API? If a client is connected to the network I would expect it to have an observation in each incoming location payload, with locations if it was seen by 3+ APs, or the latestRecord key if not.

 

Thanks,

Jack

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sungod
Kind of a big deal
Kind of a big deal

According to v3 documentation, you should be getting an update for each network far more often (it says both once a minute and every 2-3 minutes).

 

Tbh I would be wary of expecting the client counts from UI/API to match the location API, especially with small numbers of clients.

 

As a next step, I'd try to physically verify the presence of active clients within range, and check if the location API is seeing them (and the UI/API too).

 

Then if there's a definite discrepancy that can't be explained, open a support case.

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