Office wifi presence detection (ie not home wifi)

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Hi

I’m using hass.io and I use two methods of location sensing.

  1. owntracks gps
  2. home wifi (via fritzbox plugin)

I then use a bayesian sensor to combine the sensors

I have work zones for gps. I’d like to also add a wifi sensor for my work wifi ssid. ie i would have device_tracker.work_wifi and it would be on or off depending on whether my phone was connected to a certain ssid.

Has anyone done this? I imagine it could be done using tasker than an api call to home assistant to toggle the sensor, just wondering if someone already has this setup and I can copy it, or if one of the location apps also supports wifi detection for zones. (owntracks supports bluetooth, but doesn’t do anything with wifi networks).

Thanks
Kiwi

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I´m looking for the exactly same thing. 2,5 years later - what´s the current status? I know there are people using this already, I just have no idea how they implemented it.

@kiwijunglist what´s your status on this?

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I use tasker on android. It detects the work wifi and then sends an http post to an http sensor in home assistant.

Im not 100% sure but doesn’t the new home assistant android app report which wifi you are connected to.

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Yes the app does provide the WiFi SSID. I just don´t know how to tell (configure) Home Assistant that “office-SSID” belongs to Zone “office”…

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I’m wanting to do the samething.

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nothing new?

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Old thread I know, but these days, with the latest Companion app, there are tons of options you can play with, yes?

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Yes it’s kinda irrelevant now that most people can just run the home assistant app and that’s easier

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That’s for Android. iOS devices (still) only provide very limited sensors. No change on that side.

Except the steps and floors ascended/descended count being available meanwhile, so if your office is in the 6th floor just watch the sensor and take that as „must be in the office (zone)!“ or what :grin:

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