Looking for design pattern to handle rules based on presence state

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I don’t see that as bad. I personally use a string that gets updated with “Home” or “Away” by the iphone detection script: iPhone Presence Detection with hping3 and ARP

I then check if the string equals what I’m looking for in my rules. Basically the same, you just check if the switch is on or off instead.