I’m in the process of flashing (bricking & unbricking) ESP-based & other devices with a combination of Tasmota & ESP firmware.
I’m wondering is if it’s possible for these live & semi-trusted IoT nodes/end-points to act as additional presence agents, that already are/will be scattered around my site, so that I can improve the fidelity of my presence detection, rather than adding additional hardware dedicated to these tasks.
eg. if/when the presence a WiFi or BLE device is detected - phone, headset, watch, etc - then have detecting endpoint-agents - my lightbulb, switch, PIR sensor, whatever - signal the my MQTT broker with the MAC’s & signal-strength.
This is on their ‘down-time’, in addition to their primary function.