Test your beacons

To make sure the beacons work, perform a test drive through your tunnel with Waze. Follow these steps:

Step 1: Find and whitelist your Waze username

Give the Waze username of each tester to the Waze team. That username will be whitelisted for navigating using Waze Beacons.

Find your username 

  1. Open the Waze app
  2. Type ##@username in the search bar and tap Search

 

Your username will be shown in a pop up on screen

 

  1. Send your username to your contact person at Waze

Verify that your username is whitelisted:

  1. Disable Bluetooth on your device
  2. Open Waze
  3. Search in Waze for a destination that requires you to drive through your tunnel
  4. Start driving. Check the following:
    • Success – If the app prompts you to enable Bluetooth on your device, your user is whitelisted for testing
    • Failure – If you do not get the pop up, please contact us and we'll check it for you

 

Step 2: Turn on debug mode

To activate debug mode in Waze, type 2##2 in the Waze app search bar and tap Search




The following pop up appears when debug mode is activated:


 

Step 3: Do a test drive

  1. Enable Bluetooth on your device
  2. Search in Waze for a destination that requires you to drive through your tunnel
  3. Navigate through the tunnel, and send debug logs after every tunnel tube segment (see Step 4 below)

Step 4: Send logs

To test that your beacons are working properly, we need to see the debug logs from your test drive. During your test drive, do the following as you exit each tunnel tube segment:

1.  Tap 

2. Tap Debug 

 

Note: Make sure to do the following in a legal and safe way, or have a passenger help you.​

 

 

Step 5: If we ask you to send Moledebug logs

Depending on the test results, we might require logs in “MoleDebug” mode. This lets us make sure your device was searching for beacons during your test drive.

Before activating "moledebug mode" make sure your waze is already in regular debug mode (2##2).

  1. Active Moledebug mode in Waze, type ##@moledebug in the Waze app search bar and tap Search
 

The following pop up appears when Moledebug is activated.

Now, repeat your test drive in steps 2 & 3, sending logs after each tunnel tube segment.

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