Setting up Bluetooth binding in 2017

Until a new 2.0 version of the binding is released I cannot recommend using the BT binding. I never was able to get it to work on Linux.

A couple options you have for BT presence detection are:

Use the above in conjunction with Network binding and you will have a pretty reliable solution.

To aggregate the sensors together see Sensor Aggregation

@thete, I’ve found that Network is not very reliable with phones. A lot of phones, iPhone in particular, turn off their network when they go to sleep and stop responding to pings as a result. There are some approaches to overcome this using hping3 but over all they tend to be unsatisfactory.

Also, I didn’t know the Network binding now supports autodiscovery. That’s kind of cool.