Ping an Android phone via Port Forwarding (presence detection)

[rpwong (Russ)]

If you’re willing to use Google Assistant, this might work.

EDIT: nevermind, I missed that you don’t use myopenhab.

Google home geofence example

There are options to track multiple Android phone locations using the GPSTracker binding with either Owntracks or GPS logger, however these have some drawbacks. If what you want to do is trigger events when Android phones (people) wander in and out of locations you can use Google Home geo-fence. What you need to do this is to set up openHAB Cloud Connector and set up Google Assistant Create a switch item in openHAB for each android and location you wish to track. See the example item defin…