Continuing woes with IOS presence detection

[GervaisdeM]

I am setup with TLS. I use Let’s Encrypt for free certs.

It works for me all the time. I don’t use nmap since switching to OwnTracks for tracking my location. If I restart HA I sometimes will set myself to home manually (or you can trigger a manual location update in OwnTracks).

[ha_steve]

Here’s an updated guide I made which was inspired by @mikeg1130 with the new built-in HomeKit support. Note this requires that you have an AppleTV, ipad, or HomePod that will be an “always on your network” device. If you don’t have that, you’re better off with homebridge.

HomeKit as a Presence Sensor

I know others have used HomeKit bridge to do this, but now that the native HomeKit support is in I thought I would share what I did to get MUCH better presence detection. First, in my configuration.yaml file, I added two input_boolean devices which I will use as indicators whether or not my wife and I are present, like so: input_boolean: me_present: name: Me icon: mdi:account wife_present: name: Wife icon: mdi:account I also added the HomeKit component and filtered to just…