OWNtracks Setup - Position update

[anonymous.one]

I have been successful when using SNMP as a method to detect phones being at home, however it does require the router (layer 3 device) device to work for you.

Leveraging SNMP to detect your mobile device

So like most I’ve experienced the network binding loosing track of mobile devices on my network; and while arping does resolve a lot of these issues, I originally created my openhab server in a different subnet/VLAN. For those who are not network savy arping does not work well in this scenario as it will resolve to the VLAN gateway IP and never change the mobile device to OFF. So while the tasker guide I wrote up works well, I occasionally had hiccups (mainly from the wife’s phone); so I decid…

I will mention this guide was written with SNMP 1.x (vs the SNMP 2.x, something I need to find time to validate). I also need to verify if the ARP entries in pfsense can work vs a Cisco switch, but again have lacked time to properly validate a test.