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I haven't tried this method. For me relying on Bluetooth presence feels buggy. I'm in a household with multiple persons also without watches. Mine is charging on ground floor as well so it wouldn't work for me.
There are some presence options you could consider like Zigbee motion sensors (cats included), cameras with local person detection or all in combination with Bluetooth.
It's whatever would work for you!
I have a few problems. The mii fit trackers seem to go offline when inactive. So when my son goes to sleep his device shows as not home. My garmin rarely shows up.
The other problem is my house has two floors and often I'm closer vertically to a node and show as being in a room above me.
It does have some uses for me working around these things so I'll persist.
Can we as a people agree to stop clicking on videos with this face 😮 in the thumbnail?
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ESPresence definitely rocks. I use it at home in a similar configuration, though I use a beacon app on my phone.
This type of detection isn’t great for immediate response but espresence does let you use various sensors with it to detect the initial presence (motion, light, and a few others)
Haven't watched the video but the description states you need a smart watch to accomplish this? Seems like it'd be handy under certain use cases (you live alone and always have your watch on you) but sadly wouldn't work great with a family.
I've wanted to tackle presence detection for a while, but it seems the only feasible, universal way of doing it is with a mix of PIR and mmWave sensors. Unfortunately the cost of these sensors are still pretty high currently.
did anyone tried this?
I have 24 ESP32s that got delivered today and I am printing some cases with some cables/wall plugs coming tomorrow and I will report back
I promised to report back, so here we go.
It’s not instant so you cannot use “Walk into room activations” — Apple Watches are super finicky to get sensing properly
But overall I really like it. It helps me and the wife know where each other are in the house (my office is in basement hers is on second floor), I have some automations that I have hooked up to location. Example, my dog needs a pill at 9am and 9pm every day, so if someone goes into the kitchen at 8:45-8:59 it sends a reminder to handle the pill then. If that hasn’t been sent at 9pm then it reminds both of us.
Definitely neat, but entirely skippable for most people. It’s not going to be very effective for much other than “oh she’s in the bathroom I won’t disturb her”
thanks for the update.