Luci device tracker with iOS device

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Hi,

I’m having some trouble with tracking an iOS device with OpenWRT and Luci.

I know there is a problem with iOS devices seeming away because they disconnect from the wifi, but that I solved by increasing the consider_home value to 600.

The problem I have now is the other way around, Home Assistant is sometimes showing it home, when it’s not. Even if the device has been gone for hours.

I’m also tracking an android device, and there are no problems at all with it.

Does anyone have an idea what’s going wrong, or any help how to debug this?

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No one? :frowning:

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I use a dual tracking method using my router & owntracks I’ve found since starting this method its become quite accurate

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Hi, thanks for the info but I’m not interested in using owntracks or another workaround.

It works fine for my android phone and there is no reason it shouldn’t be able to detect the Iphone disconnecting from the wifi.

I finally managed to query luci rpc through the commandline to see what’s going on, but I’m not yet completely sure what I should check for.

I suppose I’ll file a bug report then

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same problem for me.

using Lede 17.04.1 luci configuration.

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Any solution?

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Right now I use this custom component for tracking. You just need to rename the device_tracker folder to luci_ap and luci_ap.py to device_tracker.py to make it work in then newest version of Homeassistant.