There are so many cool things to explore with HA I’m a little overwhelmed. So to just get started I identified a fun project I’d like to figure out. I have a standing desk and a chair in my home office. I’d like to have my music turn off when I’m no longer in the room. And when I return, music r…

hi see: New Aqara Human Presence Sensor FP1 - Hardware - Home Assistant Community (home-assistant.io) or u can find a camera and soft (it can be complex as deep learning) or a vibration sensor on chair + ir detector turn it on with a light (wifi zigbee …) or computer (nmap, ping…)

Interesting ideas thank you. I came across the Shelly Motion WiFi, I wonder if there’s experience with that in the community. I’ll search. Seems like a cheaper/proven alternative to the FP1 idea :slight_smile:

I have HA detect if my PC is on/off and take action on that.

I’ve been thinking about this and thought I’d drop my ideas here. Measure power draw on a monitor. Door sensor or endstop on my retractable keyboard tray (not going to work for everyone’s set-up). These have thier limitations but I think they might work for my needs/use case. I don’t think…

If you are using a chair with some moving parts a door sensor in the chair (triggered only when you are sitting) probably will work also.

I’ve gone overkill, but, an orchestration of these works: Contact sensor on the door - only gets closed when I’m working….first check Vibration sensor in the chair (with tilt sensing tells me off when I’m spending too much time lounging back, ie away from the keyboard) - second check (okay so I’m …

The aqara FP1 looks very interesting. I saw it a while back but forgot about it. I think even if you have to have a PIR/Door sensor etc to do the “quick detection” and then the FP1 to monitor you are still there, you have still solved a major room occupancy challenge.

Isn’t all of this overkill when you can just corner all of these cases with a motion detector? They might be fun projects but i find most things, if not all i can cover with the mighty motion sensor. I thought for a while to have bed motion sensors, but i’m not sure i can argue a case for it. I hav…

I’m looking for desk presence detection. My desk is in my open plan living area. And I walk past my desk regularly! I’ve tried a PIR pointing towards my feet in the past, with “reasonable” results. Also, there is a chance that they will detect you as away if you aren’t moving regularly (perhaps r…

[image] woodmj74: New addition of an aqara FP1 to sense I’m in the room and still there even if I’ve fallen asleep on a Zoom call. Did you manage to buy one!? Jealous!

My first project: desk presence detection

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Mahko_Mahko (Mahko Mahko) May 13, 2022, 10:35pm 13

I have a sit-stand desk! Another reason why I was thinking about using my keyboard tray or monitor power draw.