Bluetooth presence detection without Raspberry Pi 3

[keithh666 (Keith Hull)]

I think you could do it on a stand alone PI using room assistant and FIND as both use MQTT also zanzito integrates with FIND

See here …

Anyone seen this (Find internal positioning)?

You mean your code example works with “find” ? Did you setup a private server running find ? On their website I was struggling how to use this in combination with HA.

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Certainly food for thought