I feel very free but sadly I lack the knowledge to contribute… i would like to be able to create all the features I like.
what do you mean by: you could track someone by SSID? Is this worse that GPS?
I’m new to Home Assistant. I’m migrating from SmartThings/WebCore, ActionTiles, Tasker, Hue, etc…
I set up something similar to what you’re asking for in your original post. I have Tasker set up to send a message to WebCore when it “sees” my home network. The system works every time. The issue is that it takes a while to for the message to bounce around the different clouds to make it do anything.
I hope that something similar could be set up in Home Assistant. The phone would know if it can see the home WiFi system and send a notification to HA. At least, I’m hoping I can use Tasker to tell HA that I am home / away…
I’m still working on migrating the basic stuff right now but would love to tackle this one in the not so distant future.
Welcome to HA. There’s no need for Tasker any more. Using the HA app on your phone, with the related settings in place, you would not need anything else. There are tons of sensors the app could report back to your own HA server, and not going through google / apple / anyone else / any 3rd party’s “cloud”.
And with setups on zone and person, you could even combine multiple device trackers to increase the reliability of whether someone being in some zone, in a more fail-safe manner.