Ping + Arp custom_component device tracker

Configuration
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In the config folder. If you don’t have the folder, you will have to create it.

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Is “count” in seconds?

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Hi, count is the number of packets sent by the ping command. 5 is a common number to avoid false positives.

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Does Android phones behave the same way?

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Easy to test.
Just connect the phone to your wifi, and from other computer just ping the android phone and confirm it respond.
Now run arp -a to display the arp table and find the android phone ip / mac address
Turn sleep your android and wait until it does not respond to ping.
Run again arp -a and you should still see the ip / mac address.

Finally disconect the android phone from the wifi and wait a few seconds and run again arp -a.
The entry ip / mac address should be gone.

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Did something similar a while ago using a simple bash script.

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I got false positive sometimes, so this is not reliable :frowning:
This night for exemple I was home and my iPhone switched 2 times from “home” to “not_home” during 1 minute.

I will try to remove ‘consider_home: 60’ to see it’s the problem.

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I think this is normal with the iPhone. No one knows what they do at night. :blush:
Also seeing this from time to time.

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Hi @jean675 Is the other way arroud. to avoid false positives when you set a too low value for “consider_home”, consider to increase it to for instance to two minutes: consider_home: 120

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It still doesn’t work with consider_home : 120.

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the first line shows me I’m absent from 05:43 to 05:43
the second line shows me I’m absent from 06:38 to 06:40
the third line shows me I’m absent from 08:03 to 08:04
the fourth line shows me I’m absent from 09:50 to 09:50
the fifth line shows me I’m absent from 10:59 to 11:00
the sixth line shows me I’m absent from 11:30 to 11:31

I have an iPhone X with iOS 12.2

Here is my component :

device_tracker:
  - platform: ping_arp
count: 5
consider_home: 120
hosts: 
  iPhone_de_jean: 192.168.1.30
new_device_defaults:
  track_new_devices : false

Don’t know if my settings or if the component is not reliable with iPhones.

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works fine for me. indents maybe?

device_tracker:
  - platform: ping_arp
    count: 5
    consider_home: 120
    hosts:
      host_1: 192.168.1.30
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And you have checked so this is not an internet problem?

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not a syntax problem
not an internet issue, and in any case it’s LAN only

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hi @jean675, can I ask you which hardware is running home assistance? raspberry? wifi?

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Hi [JBelinchon]
I has add code
device_tracker:
- platform: bluetooth_tracker
track_new_devices: false
- platform: ping_arp
count: 5
consider_home: 120 #This setting speed up the transition from home to not_home
hosts:
myIphone: 192.168.1.15
- platform: ping
hosts:
hostone: 192.168.1.15
Anh copy file device_tracker.py to ping_arp folder
In known_devices.yaml show

myiphone:
  hide_if_away: false
  icon:
  mac: 04:D1:3A:D9:EF:80
  name: Kien ơi
  picture:
  track: false
hostone:
  hide_if_away: false
  icon:
  mac:
  name: hostone
  picture:
  track: false

but in home assistant UI , do not have device_tracker.myiphone
or device_tracker.hostone

Please help me

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Just turn true the device you want to be tracked.

myiphone:
  hide_if_away: false
  icon:
  mac: 04:D1:3A:D9:EF:80
  name: Kien ơi
  picture:
  track: true
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when use your component, do i need use ping component or i remove it ?

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That does not mean that the router does not drop the connection, internet or no internet

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They can live together

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it mean I cant remove ping component
Thank your repply, i come from Vietname.
sorry about english