BEGINNER Guide to iPhone Presence?

[ThomDietrich]

Nice @Maurits28!
Now nothing is stopping you to just copy&paste the tutorial to an article at https://community.openhab.org/c/setup-configuration-and-use/tutorials-examples - That would be amazing

Be sure to check out the About Tutorials & Examples article.

[Maurits28 (Maurits)]

@ThomDietrich

Nice @Maurits28!
Now nothing is stopping you to just copy&paste the tutorial to an article at https://community.openhab.org/c/setup-configuration-and-use/tutorials-examples - That would be amazing

Be sure to check out the About Tutorials & Examples article.

I just made a tutorial here: Iphone presence.

Some things occurred which I could not explain, maybe you can explain to me:

1. I inserted a hyperlink, first one works, second one only shows the text.
2. I inserted link to another forum user, first one works, second one only shows the text
3. I could not give ‘hard enters / line breaks’ at some point in the post, which makes it more difficult to read (e.g. step 3)

[Maurits28 (Maurits)]

@rlkoshak

Nice and concise tutorial on how to make hping3 work. Thank you for posting.

I might make one suggestion to add a sleep between the hping3 and the arp call in IphoneD.sh. I’ve found on my machine at least that the script runs faster than arp packets fly across the network causing the script to only intermittently correctly report Present. Adding a sleep 1 in my case (much less would probably be adequate) makes it return the correct state every time.

Thank you for the suggestion, I added it to the tutorial, and changed it in the post above.

[ThomDietrich]

Amazing. Okay it seems the original question was answered and the step-by-step tutorial is now available:

iPhone Presence Detection with hping3 and ARP

This tutorial describes how to detect the presence of an iPhone if it is connected to your home’s wifi network. It is a summary of several posts on this forum, started by the script posted by @kemotsysinc (main thread) and great additions from @Seaside later in this thread. Thanks for that! Used Hardware: iPhone 6 and Raspberry Pi 2 Used Software: Rasbian with openHABian 2.0.0 and hping3 Necessary binding: Exec binding To enable iPhone detection follow these steps: Hping To wake up the …

With that I will go ahead and close this thread. If there’s a reason against that, please do not hesitate to write me a personal message!