Best option for location tracking

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I personally use a combo of these.

Local Detection:

  • Ubiquiti Unifi WAP
    (Extremely Reliable. Minimal battery drain )

  • Monitor BlueTooth ( Monitor - Multi-user bt occupancy presence detection. )
    (Extremely Reliable. Minimal battery drain )

  • HomeKit
    (Acceptably Reliable. Minimal battery drain )

  • Actiontec WAP
    ( Unreliable, but necessary until I finish converting my network to Ubiquity products. Minimal battery drain )

GPS Detection:

  • HA iOS App
    (Acceptably Reliable. Moderate-Minimal battery drain )

IMO, it’s best to use multiple, different, local options (1x WiFi, 1x Bluetooth, & Homekit if applicable ) & 1x decent GPS option, to get the most overall accuracy.

You can then use the Bayesian sensor as @talondnb suggested. It is a little bit complicated to setup/understand initially, but provides the best case when set up correctly.

OR

Just throw them in a group, which is simpler to setup/understand initially, and “Good enough” if you have some reliable presence detection.

For your specific use case, if I were you, for local, I would use only the Asuswrt and look into adding Homekit & Monitor if possible.

I’d also recommend just the HA iOS app for GPS. The iCloud component is probably the most accurate of all the GPS components, but also causes the most battery drain which doesn’t make the extra accuracy worth it IMO.

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