I wasn’t sure how to search for this so I’m asking in hopes of getting some info because I’m feeling pretty nervous.
I think my ex boyfriend may have put my iPhone and/or Mac onto his Home assistant without telling me. Is there a way to find out? He had access to my router info and he set up my mac for me so has whatever info that comes with.
He was at my house the other day and had HA open to a page that said “new devises detected” but he closed it before clicking on anything at that time. I am zero tech savvy and he is very.
I’m wondering how I can figure it out. And does it do more than track if you’re home or not? If there’s a discussion on this that I can just be directed to, that would be helpful as well.
As mentioned without the Home Assistant Mobile app on your phone there isn’t anything he could do with your phone. You can verify that your phone doesn’t have that app installed. If it’s there remove it.
Next if he set up HA to use your router for network detection for his HA then while he is at your house he could check what devices have been connected to your router. I’m not sure how that would be possible to set up access remotely but if it’s a concern you can/should change the administrator username and password on your router.
And lastly, if you are concerned that he is being creepy just don’t let him back into your house.
He had it opened up on his phone and was also looking at the cameras he has at his house. I don’t even know if meant anything, just worried he could track my things without me knowing. As a joke, he tracked his brothers phone and then would send him a message every time the brother left the house. (but likely his brother had it installed?)
If it can’t be on a device without the app being installed, then that is all I need to know I guess? I searched my computer and it didn’t show up that I could tell.
He is a network engineer and very good at all of that kind of stuff and has said he can access boxes without the person knowing. So, im worried. I don’t have anything to hide but don’t want to be tracked by the person I broke up with as I will probably date someone else again at some point.
Sorry, that was more info than necessary probably
The new devices thing could be very innocent really.
It could be an integration that broke on him and he reinstalled the integration.
Not saying this is the most plausible, but that is one thing that it could have been.
Since you have broke up with him then I also suggest to change admin password on the router.
You should probably also do a full reset before changing the password but given that you probably don’t know anything what we are saying then that will be hard.
It’s a newish router that came with my comcast service. He has all of the numbers on it & the password because he helped me set it up. I’m just going to ask Comcast for a new one.
But all in all, I think I got the info I need and I don’t have it on my things.
If you have a static IP then you might be able to just get a new IP.
It will probably cost you some money to get it replaced.
Nobody at work that knows computers well?
The router doesn’t have to be at your home when this person does the “job” on it.
For someone who knows what they are doing, it’s less than 10 minutes of work to reset, set up a new Wifi SSID and set new admin password.
