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What are Halo Beacons?

Current Halo App
  • iOS: Version 3.0.1 or later
  • Android: In Development

What Are Halo Beacons?

Halo Beacons are small Bluetooth devices that communicate with your dog’s Halo Collar to control how the collar behaves in specific areas.

Beacons can be used indoors or outdoors and support two modes:

  • Keep Away — creates an area you want your dog to avoid.
  • Ignore Fences — creates an area where Halo Fence feedback is temporarily ignored.

Keep Away

Use Keep Away to create a boundary around an area you don’t want your dog to enter.

For example, you can place a Beacon:

  • Near a kitchen counter to discourage counter-surfing
  • In a room you want your dog to avoid
  • Around another area you want to keep off-limits

Adjust the Beacon’s range to control the size of the Keep Away area.

Ignore Fences

Use Ignore Fences to create an area where your dog can move without receiving Halo Fence feedback.

This can be useful when:

  • Walking your dog through an existing Halo Fence
  • Creating a safe area near a building, wall, or garage where fence feedback should be ignored

Customize Your Beacon

Each Beacon can be configured in the Halo App. You can:

  • Give your Beacon a name
  • Choose Keep Away or Ignore Fences
  • Adjust the range
  • Enable or disable the Beacon
  • View its status and battery level

Note: A Beacon’s range extends in all directions, including above and below the Beacon. A larger radius may therefore affect your dog on another floor of your home.

Manage Your Beacons

Go to My Fences and tap the Beacon icon to open the Beacon panel. From here, you can view your Beacons, check their status and battery level, and enable or disable them.

For additional settings, go to More > My Devices and select the Beacon you want to manage.

How Beacons Work With Your Account

Your Halo Collar responds to Beacons associated with your account.

  • Existing Halo users: Your collar will continue responding to all Beacons until you add a Beacon to your account. After that, it will respond only to Beacons registered to your account.
  • New Halo users: Your collar will respond only to Beacons added to your account.

If no Beacons have been added to your account, Beacon features cannot be enabled.

Reminder: Beacons must be enabled for your dog for Beacon feedback to occur.

 

Legacy Halo App
  • iOS: Version 2.15 (1045) or earlier
  • Android: Version 2.15 (603) or earlier

Halo Beacons are Bluetooth-enabled devices that communicate with your dog's Halo Collar to create additional boundaries or control how your collar behaves in specific areas.

Zone Beacons

  • Can be used indoors or outdoors
  • Support both:
    • Keep Away
    • Ignore Fences
  • Ideal for creating boundary zones in specific areas

Beacon Customization

Each Beacon can be customized in the Halo App, including:

  • Beacon name
  • Function (Keep Away or Ignore Fences)
  • Radius size

Note: Beacon ranges are spherical, not flat. This means a large radius may trigger feedback even across floors in your home.

What Is "My Beacons"?

The My Beacons feature allows you to:

How It Works

  • Existing users: Your collar will continue responding to all Beacons until you add one to your account. After that, it will only respond to Beacons registered to your account.
  • New users: Your collar will only respond to Beacons added to your account. If no Beacons are added, Beacon features cannot be enabled.

How Should I Use Beacons?

Beacons give you the flexibility to control where your dog can and cannot go.

Examples:

  • Use a small radius to prevent counter-surfing
  • Use a larger radius to block access to an entire room

Beacon Functions

Keep Away

  • Keeps your dog out of unsafe or unwanted areas
  • Works like a virtual boundary
  • Triggers feedback as your dog approaches the zone

Ignore Fences

  • Creates a safe zone where no fence feedback occurs
  • Useful for:
    • Walking through fences
    • Preventing feedback in problem areas (like near walls or garages)

Additional Features

In the My Beacons section, you can:

  • See if Beacons are active (recently connected)
  • Check battery levels
  • Receive low battery alerts
  • Temporarily mute individual Beacons

Reminder: Each dog must have Beacons enabled for feedback to occur.

Where to Buy

Halo Beacons can be purchased from the Halo Accessories page.

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