Nice! What’s the place for feature requests? With the High-accuracy mode, it would be great to be able to automatically have that turn on when within a certain distance of a zone, then have it turn back off once the zone is entered. Particularly useful when arriving home for having that detected quickly. It looks like it would be possible to do that with HA sending the right notifications to the phone, but it’d be nice to have that happen on the phone side. I currently use OwnTracks and Tasker to accomplish something similar, but I wouldn’t mind doing away with OwnTracks.
Make sure to be specific and to also break up different points if possible, don’t try to add more than 1 thing otherwise the request may get closed prematurely.
I’m excited to try out the BLE Transmitter. It makes so much sense to build this into the main app. I particularly like the option to hopefully be able to stop/start it with an automated command. With my current BLE app, it sometimes stops transmitting once a week or so and I have to send an actionable notification to reopen the app. This way I should just be able to fix it without user interaction.
Support is planned, currently there has been some work done in the backend but nothing worthy of mentioning in the blog post. All that is really done is that the team has created a non-functional package which is basically the first baby step. I don’t really know how long it will take for anything to be ready for use, I don’t own any wear OS devices so I wouldn’t be contributing to this area yet.
My imagination can’t keep up with all these possibilities, thanks for an awesome update!
One cool thing you can do now is sending a notification on movement in the hallway, with a picture taken by a nearby camera of course, and then in that notification have a reply button so that whatever text you enter there is then read out loud by some speaker to the person who entered.
In the thread with intents, there is a link to the Waze thread, in that thread there is a link to a very cheap bluetooth receiver you can have in the car.
I just want to thank the contributors for this amazing app. The amount of sensors and possibilities is just amazing. Thank you @dshokouhi for your contributions and willingness to reply on many posts. I’m loving the BLE beacon feature.
I follow all the app updates super closely and somehow I still missed this. Definitely something I’ll be trying out, I really wanted to use room-assistant but couldn’t get it to talk to my phone before. Thanks for the update!
That expanded zone feature looks absolutely perfect! Thanks!
Might need to tweak the wording a bit with the settings. Based on those screenshots, there doesn’t appear to be any indication that when using an expanded zone, high accuracy mode turns back off within the zone itself.
I created a PR for that.