There are various threads about how to detect phones on the local network to know if a user is present. Has anyone explored creating a package for pfSense (open source router) that would look at the ARP table to the presence of the device?
The idea comes from doing this same thing on WDDRT (http://tinsley.io/2015/03/openhab-presence-detection-with-dd-wrt/).
This seems related…
I’ve also a Python script that looks for ARP packets for a given MAC (it was an attempt to do something with Amazon Dash buttons). However, I don’t know if all phones always send an ARP packet when they initially join a network. And of course it doesn’t help with detecting when the device leaves the network.
I did a quick Google search and found a blog posting that states there will be a REST API in pfSense 3.0. With that the HTTP binding might work.
Thanks for the inf about the REST API in 3. I was unaware of it.