Hows everyone tracking that people are present in the home? to make a start the idea i was going to use was mobile phones if they are connected to wifi people are home if no mobiles are connected nobodys home got a few problems with that approatch atm my partners phone keeps dropping connection w…

What do you mean exactly by “experimenting with ESP8266”? Is it related to the presence issue? What is your idea behind? Maybe something I coul also use :slight_smile:

Hello! I’m using phone’s WiFi for presence detection, and it works pretty reliably. How do you use it? Network binding pings? I guess there could be problems with that approach, if you can’t ping the device when asleep. I’m using Tasker to update OH items when phone connects or disconnects my WiFi …

Im using presence detection with my android phones as described here [image] Generic Presence Detection Tutorials & Examples Edit: A rewrite to take advantage of the Debounce rule template on the marketplace. This is a tutorial to show a generic and sensor in…

Apologies, typo. I mean the ESP32, detecting BLE key

for now i seem to have solved this problem i changed the port the network binding was pinging now the phone doesent disconnect from the wifi network when locked just drops for a moment every few hours i changed the binding to ping port 5060 and to only consider this device offline after 5 pings ar…

This is my Solution for Detecting Presence with Bluetooth :slight_smile: [image] GitHub - eiGelbGeek/OpenHAB-presence-detection-using-G-Tags: OpenHAB Presence Detection with Gigaset G-Tag OpenHAB Presence Detection with Gigaset G-Tag and in OpenHAB is…

My plan for the moment is to use the network binding to ping a mobile if this is on somebodys home if its off they have left thats part 1 im going to add a second type of sensor to backup these results maby a bluetooth tag attached to keys and a door open/close sensor to improve more if this hasen…

Look @ my Github Projekt … that is Bluetooth Tag … that works perfectly for my … installed on a Raspberry Zero W… if your Openhab is installed on a Raspberry … the copy the install script to /home/pi/ and than sudo bash install.sh answer the Questions … and it will work :slight_smile: Ping was no O…

im running android here not getting into that debate :slight_smile: like i say im thinking the solution is phone wifi & bluetooth tags paired with door sensor

I am using homekit automation and the homekit binding to set a switch/group to determine presence. Works reliably aside from occasionally losing homekit/OH pairing. I prefer the geofence approach as opposed to detecting via network and I can also set a switch for when I am leaving work etc.

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ei_Gelb_Geek (Kevin) January 13, 2018, 9:11pm 13

This is my Solution for Detecting Presence with Bluetooth

and in OpenHAB is use the Design Pattern from @rlkoshak