I’m using two of these but wondered how everyone is dealing with the assumed state of the input boolean on HA restarts? You ideally don’t want it off or on after restart but to be ‘in limbo’ until it determines the actual states from the device. Any feedback on that appreciated.
Thanks for replying, this means that I have installed successfully?
Showing 100% at home, 100% at home far away, 0% only when away from home, and home range is small. A zero w is satisfied, can not achieve a zero w per room!
Front up, thanks @andrewjfreyer for your effort and time you put into this project. I just received a rPi zero w today and was up and running in almost no time. Everything is well documented.
Now to my actual question. I have a bunch of Chipolo trackers which are ‘paired’ to my iPhone and are working as they should. I added their mac addresses to the owner_devices and as long as I turn off my iPhone’s bluetooth they are detected just fine. As soon as I turn the iPhone’s bluetooth back on they are gone.
Does anyone have an explanation for this behaviour? Can BLE trackers only be used with one devices (my iPhone in this case)?
I just noticed that the same is true for my wife’s Nokia steel HR watch.
Detecting the iPhone(s) works perfectly fine though.
That is my impression too. But unpairing them contradicts their original purpose. So they can’t really be used for presence detection in my opinion. Very unfortunate. Same goes for watches and fitness trackers I assume.
They don’t need to be paired to your phone for presence tracking just on you or your keys or wallet or however you wish to implement them. They will continue to send out a beacon and if they are within range of your ble tracker it will detect them and assign them as home or not_home
@cgtobi & @Samuel - if either of you would like to see the progress, look for the ‘monitor’ project on my github. This is very alpha, and when I’m active I’m making 20 - 30 commits at a time, but you’ll get a feel for the difference of how it works. Tons of tweaking and option-adding still to do, but the general structure is in place.
I’d still consider that project pre-alpha. It is a complete rewrite.
@andrewjfreyer thank you for this project. Have just implemented it on the Pi I have HA on, and a pi zero. Think I am going to need another zero to just completely cover my house, but it seems to be exactly what I am after to trigger some automation’s as soon as I arrive home, and to double check if I am away or not, as the annoying bug in the Unifi wifi and iOS is still there. Thank you again.
I installed according to instructions, I am not getting any readings when subscribing to topic on mosquito as follows: mlsquitto_sub -u xxxx -P xxxx -p 22 -t location/owner/garage/14:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX -C 3, the mqtt settings on the new RPIZ-W point to an existing mosquitto-stretc broker in the same network, what is the best way to check if the install worked, the xxxx and XX show redacted items
