How to track devices in-house which also has Companion App?

Hi there,

I’m wondering if it’s possible to locate phones (e.g. which floor they are) by bluetooth. I’ve got several EPS32 devices which also has:

bluetooth_proxy:
  active: true

But if i read well, devices with the Companion App won’t show up. But is there another way to track them?

Like, i want to open my garage door when a ESP32 finds my phone by bluetooth (so it knows i’m near the garage, instead of home (which is not accurate enough)…

Thanks!

You could use something like Room Assistant to utilize BLE to know when you are nearby. I stopped using RA for a while because it sucked the life out of my watch batteries doing similar operations but the BLE is totally independent of the companion app.

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Indeed you can enable the BLE transmitter on your Device using the companion app, however…

Settings > companion app > sensors