Hi,
i have tried different ways to check if someone is at home or away. all ways are not working fine:
all three ways are showing not the correct status. sometimes it shows away when i am at home and sometimes not.
is there a way to do that working to 100%? i have a nokia 7.2 and a samsung a520 handy and a easybox from vodafone.
greetings
Well, if your phone does not respond to a ping, there is either a problem with your phone or with your networkā¦
I would seriously check that ā¦.
Modern phones will turn off the WiFi when in deep sleep.
I find that monitor, which uses Bluetooth, is the most reliable method. The mobile app works well if you use the value of the WiFi SSID rather than the device tracker.
Hi,
ssid is a very good idea. how do i configure that?
I can recommend to combine two sensors, one network based and one gps based (companion app) in a person entity.
They are almost never both wrong at the same time.
I actually use the SSID as the network based device tracker, by switching a ādummy deviceā state through an automation:
- id: presence_set
alias: presence_set
mode: restart
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- sensor.seanpixel3a_wlan_verbindung
- device_tracker.seanpixel3a
- platform: homeassistant
event: "start"
action:
- choose:
- conditions:
- "{{states('sensor.seanpixel3a_wlan_verbindung') == 'SSID'}}"
sequence:
- service: device_tracker.see
data:
dev_id: sean_dummy
location_name: "home"
- conditions:
- "{{states('sensor.seanpixel3a_wlan_verbindung') != 'SSID'}}"
- "{{states('device_tracker.seanpixel3a') != 'home'}}"
sequence:
- service: device_tracker.see
data:
dev_id: sean_dummy
location_name: "not_home"
This would need a customization, te be recognized as a network based device_tracker:
homeassistant:
customize:
device_tracker.seanpixel3a_dummy:
source_type: router
Thanks for sharing!
This works indeed more precise. 
hi,
thx, is this configured in configuration.yaml?
Yes, this is an automation and a customization in configuration.yaml
hi,
i have added the folllowing code now to my configuration.yaml
- id: presence_set
alias: presence_set
mode: restart
trigger:
- platform: state
entity_id:
- sensor.nokia_7_2_wifi_connection
- device_tracker.nokia_7_2
- platform: homeassistant
event: "start"
action:
- choose:
- conditions:
- "{{states('sensor.nokia_7_2_wifi_connection') == '-Pandora-'}}"
sequence:
- service: device_tracker.see
data:
dev_id: rene_dummy
location_name: "Home"
- conditions:
- "{{states('sensor.nokia_7_2_wifi_connection') != '-Pandora-'}}"
- "{{states('device_tracker.nokia_7_2') != 'Zu Hause'}}"
sequence:
- service: device_tracker.see
homeassistant:
customize:
device_tracker.rene_dummy:
source_type: router
but code check says
end of the stream or a document separator is expected at line 78, column 1:
- id: presence_set
^
got it running now 
butā¦
entity device_tracker.rene_dummy is showing now āHomeā. entity device_tracker.nokia7.2 is showing āZu Hauseā but when i use entity device_tracker.rene_dummy now in my person settings the person is showing as āunknownā.
Any ideas what i did wrong?
did you run the automation?
If your state didnāt change, the trigger would not have fired jet, and the entity rene_dummy would not be created jet.
Also the state in the condition should be āhomeā not ā Zu Hauseā
- "{{states('device_tracker.nokia_7_2') != 'home'}}"
You can check the correct states in dev-tools. The frontend shows localized and device-specific strings that cannot be used in templates.
Hi, thx a lot! the āzu Hauseā was the problem. Chnaged it to āhomeā and its working fine now.
when i want to add a second SSID, would this be the correct way:
action:
- choose:
- conditions:
- "{{states('sensor.nokia_7_2_wifi_connection') == '-Pandora-'}}"
- "{{states('sensor.nokia_7_2_wifi_connection') == '-Pandora-EXT'}}"
sequence:
- service: device_tracker.see
data:
dev_id: rene_dummy
location_name: "Home"
- conditions:
- "{{states('sensor.nokia_7_2_wifi_connection') != '-Pandora-'}}"
- "{{states('sensor.nokia_7_2_wifi_connection') != '-Pandora-EXT'}}"
- "{{states('device_tracker.nokia_7_2') != 'Zu Hause'}}"
sequence:
- service: device_tracker.see
another question: for my wife i still have only the mobile app device tracker in use. but it shows āhomeā since a few days continously. but thats wrong, she is/was not allways at home. she is every day out of home for more than 8 hours.
any ideas what could be the problem?
No, this would not work (at least for the first condition) because multiple conditions are always āANDedā, and your phone will never be in two WLANs at the same time.
You could write something like
"{{ states('sensor.nokia_7_2_wifi_connection') in ['-Pandora-','-Pandora-EXT'] }}"
As to your wifeās device_tracker: No Idea. Maybe the app doesnāt have the appropriate permission?
The app needs the permission to ALWAYS access the location and to run in the background ,though I canāt seem to find the latter right now.
and for the second condition i use ānot inā instead of āinā?
No, in the second condition you want them to be AND, so you just leave it, as it is.
Edit: that was stupid of me. Yes, you use ānot inā.