WiFi sensor into device tracker
Something that makes for a great home/away tracker is the Android and iOS app’s connected WiFi sensor, or at least it would if it was a device tracker.
presence detection
Presence detection - here we go again?
The music won’t be as good, but here we go again. I’ve made a number of updates to this logic since I last wrote about it.
Presence Detection Resurrection
Yes, another update. Until I start using Blueprints I think this’ll be the last one for a while. Probably. Oh, you may want to grab a cuppa before you dive ...
Presence detection, one last time?
Well, it’s been a while, but I think that, finally, I’ve stopped changing things. It’s been a while since I needed to account for another edge case, so here ...
Presence detection, the final countdown?
The last time I said that I didn’t think there was more I could do. I was wrong. My use of monitor hasn’t changed, and I’ll leave the config for that below.
Breaking up automations/Room activity detection
I’m sure we’ve all been there, where we’ve written automations that have grown longer and more complicated as we’ve tried to make things more flexible. Then ...
Presence detection - are we nearly there yet?
Yes, yet another update. This is what comes from trying to refine things.
Presence detection updated
A while back I covered how I was doing presence detection, and thought that since I’ve changed a few things I should update.
Home Assistant and (basic) Presence Detection
Reliable presence detection is a challenge for many people. In part this is because modern smartphones put WiFi (and apps) to sleep when they’re idle.