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[pickeld]

i would like to switch all light off when two devices are not detected.
im using nmap (the best free option i found) to detect person at home.
since mobile phone turn wifi to sleep every now and then i would like to turn off all light after 10 minutes that two person not in range,
is it possible to do so?
thank you!

[Bob_NL (Bob Visser)]

Sure:

device_tracker:
  - platform: nmap_tracker
    hosts: 10.0.0.1-255
    track_new_devices: yes
    consider_home: 600  ## << This is where you define the amount of secs untill a device gets marked as "not_home"
    interval_seconds: 10
    home_interval: 5

Update: I just found out that the consider_home attribute is loaded from the known_devices.yaml as well. This means you can also extend this time only for IOS devices (which are probably the one’s which are giving you problems) in the known_devices.yaml.

[Jer78 (Jeremy Percival)]

I posted this earlier. May help you too…

Looking for presence detection that works every time for a non-programmer

I use the following to help make my occupancy the most accurate possible. The first thing I do is use these sensors to track if individuals are home or not. Each are a combination of the iOS app device_tracker and my router’s device_tracker. This redundancy I found helps in the case the iOS app stops reporting location, the router determines the status and vice versa: sensor: - platform: template sensors: jeremy_home: value_template: '{% if is_state("device_tracker.je…

[pickeld]

@Bob_NL

I just found out that the consider_home attribute is loaded from the known_devices.yaml as well. This means you can also extend this time only for IOS devices (which are probably the one’s which are giving you problems) in the known_devices.yaml.

thank you for your help,
i tried this morning to change the “consider_home” to 600 and even to 15 min,
im still getting false reading on iphone and nexus devices.

is it possible to make a number of checks before changing the status of the device?
(first check > false + (wait few sec/min) + second check > false > device is not at home)

thank you
David

[lambtho]

you can use the following in your automations. But the problem would probably remain the same. I use Nmap too for presence detection, but I did not put automations when I am away because of that wifi sleep mode on most smartphones nowadays. To me Nmap is not reliable enough because of that. I would recommand using iBeacon instead (I am not currently doing it, but it seems like a more reliable solution) to detect when you are actually not here

condition: state
  entity_id: group.GROUPWITHYOURTWODEVICES
  state: 'not_home'
  for: 
    minutes: 10