Presence Detection broken

Configuration
1

After the most recent update, presence detection no longer shows on the webUI.

2

Check for error in your log. The lastest release introduced the validation of the configuration. It might be that your configuration.yaml contains syntax errors.

3

still new to “code”…

I found an error, it was duplicate devices in the known_devices.yaml. I don’t know why one of my laptops keeps getting added. I deleted the extra entries and it is working again.

Thanks

4

This will work for a little while. DHCP will reuse IP addresses over time. The default title chosen in known_devices.yaml will never remain unique and was probably a bad choice for them to use. I resolved this in my config by renaming the devices that I was familiar with and appending letters to the items that I wasn’t.

hplaserjetacmenet:
  name: hplaserjet.acme.net
  mac: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
  picture:
  track: no
  hide_if_away: no

192168132a:
  name: 192.168.1.32
  mac: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:f0
  picture:
  track: no
  hide_if_away: no

192168132b:
  name: 192.168.1.32
  mac: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:f1
  picture:
  track: no
  hide_if_away: no