Range presence detection

[tnemrap (Michael Parment)]

This will be nice for presence detection.

Range | Smart Home Awareness

/mike

[pahansen (Paul Hansen)]

Looks interesting. However I hope it doesn’t only work with IFTTT as I have found it wholly unreliable for near instantaneous interaction with my devices.

I also get the feeling that with a Pi and some scripts you could poll for BLE and WiFi connections. Then output this info via POST to the openHAB REST api so a rule can determine presence. It’s not as slick, but probably cheaper… not that we know what it will cost.

[rlkoshak (Rich Koshak)]

Something like this perhaps

Integrating reelyActive on a Raspberry Pi 3 with openHAB over MQTT

This is a quick tutorial on how to integrate reelyActive’s BTLE presence detection software with openHAB. This product uses the signal strength to detect the presence or absence of BTLE devices near your sensors. They offer their own hardware devices which you can install and daisy chain throughout your structure and their software works Raspberry Pi 3. Theoretically it will work with any Linux OS that has a BTLE dongle installed and can run Node.js. This tutorial only runs on one node. If you…

[pahansen (Paul Hansen)]

Yep, just like that, heh.

[Dibbler42 (Thomas Bail)]

Guys at the end we always came up with the same problem. The system is detecting one of my devices and not me.

Maybe another device to use is the puck.js

Thomas

[tnemrap (Michael Parment)]

@pahansen

Looks interesting. However I hope it doesn’t only work with IFTTT as I have found it wholly unreliable for near instantaneous interaction with my devices.

I have asked them if they will have an API.

@rlkoshak

Something like this perhaps

The Range product seems to handle more.
So a binding for this should solve most of our problems.

/Mike

[tnemrap (Michael Parment)]

@Dibbler42

Maybe another device to use is the puck.js

I am missing wifi awareness in puck.js but it can do more other things than Range.

/Mike

[tnemrap (Michael Parment)]

Respons from Range:

Hi Michael,

Thanks for reaching out. A public facing API is very much on our roadmap and we do plan to have that available well before Range begins shipping to our first backers. Let me know if you need any more specifics.

Best,

Robert

/Mike