Looking for iOS developers for discussion

[michi (Michael Geramb)]

Hi there,
I am looking for iOS developers, who know if this would technical be possible to implement in an iOS App:

Phone detection - new approach

Hi community, There are a many threads about phone detection using ping or sniffe other network packages, but all off them seems to have problems. So I have a new idea. Would it be possible to integrate the detection in the iOS and Android app as an background service? A binding could open a port, and if a new setting in the app is turned on and the app detect the home network (maybe the name must be configured) the app tries to connect to the port. The binding only have to create a thing with…

Regards,
Michael

[Moerky (Markus)]

Hi Michael - there are a lot of topics around presence detection. A good one that actually work is described here http://krausix.de/openhab-owntracks/ Regards Markus

[ryandetzel]

It’s not really reliable.

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneOSProgrammingGuide/BackgroundExecution/BackgroundExecution.html

[Moerky (Markus)]

I’m sorry I can’t agree with you. When the waypoint mode is used it indeed is reliable. I tested it now the last couple of weeks. Bottomline: Don’t use it when you want to find out the location of someone at any point of time. Use it when you want to see if some enters or leaves a pre-defined area.