monitor TL;DR: Bluetooth-based passive presence detection of beacons, cell phones, and any other bluetooth device. The system is useful for mqtt-based home automation. Script here . Read the README here . Comparing presence.sh and monitor.sh Thank you to everyone for helping test and provide input …

Hi, Thanks for making this project, appreciate the effort you’ve gone to. I’m just trying to work out the best way to implement this into my home automation system. I’ve got a raspberrypi and my home assistant server running on a NUC, I have bluetooth on both of them and have set up monitor on th…

Hi, I have some issues setting this up here. Following scenario : I have a long driveway. The idea is to have two Pi Zero W’s, one at each end of the driveway. Each of our cars here have a USB BTLE beacon connected to the cars USB port and set to a rather low tx power. Leaving or arriving is then d…

I’ve been trying to figure that out as well. That’s the main reason I wanted this, but I cant seem to find how to automatically populate the known_static_addresses, or otherwise.

same here, did you figure it out?

I’ve just recently moved my HA instance onto a NUC, and repurposed the RPi to be one of my Monitor nodes. I added my phone and the wife’s (both iphones) to the known static list, and additionally registered both for rssi readings. Both phones work flawlessly for the confidence level detecting. And …

[image] planetawylie: Both phones work flawlessly for the confidence level detecting. And my phone works for the rssi feed. But the wife’s rssi feed works only while near the node, and as soon as she leaves the house, I see the rssi strength dropping, then it shoots back up to -99dBm when signal…

So, when my iphone is closer to the RPi, I get closer to -100 dBm. Further away it is, I get closer to 0 dBm? Correct? So if there is no signal, device not present (I’m not home), -99dBm is used…hence indicating I am close to the RPi? So I need to use the confidence level in conjunction with the rss…

No, it’s the inverse. Note that the bluetooth hardware reports a negative value. The closer the RSSI is to zero, the closer you are to the BT hardware. The farther you are away, the “more negative” your number will be.

[monitor] Reliable, Multi-User, Distributed Bluetooth Occupancy/Presence Detection

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TheStigh (TheStigh) February 23, 2020, 6:26pm 1809

Everybody, have a look at the new appdaemon app Monitor-App
Makes monitor a lot better with auto-reboot if connection lost, devices can appear in HA as device_tracker etc