Hello folks,
I would appreciate your recommendations for room presence.
I have ESP32 devices and RPi Zero W devices in most rooms in the house. I am using zigbee2mqtt with Mosquitto and MariaDB on my Home Assistant. I would like to detect the presence of each specific person in each specific room using their iPhone or Apple Watch plus (when android-based visitors are here) android 'phones/tablets, etc.
One potential use for this detection is to use ‘follow-me’ to play media on Amazon Echo and other media players around the house based on the person’s preferences and location, and to avoid playing media in unoccupied rooms.
There appears to be a plethora of candidates to provide what I am looking for - espresense, ESPHome, mqtt-Home, Room Assistant, etc.
The ideal solution would be one that is built-in to Home Assistant Core (to avoid the situation with Room Assistant being deprecated, for example) but I would appreciate information about your experiences with room presence solutions so that I can determine the one that is best suited to my ‘requirements’.
Many thanks
Joe.