A few months back my tv was stolen, I bought another one. Since then I live with the apprehension of this happening again. I bought a Samsung Smarttafe 2, removed the speaker, opened my tv and stuck it in there. When I am not home I can’t track the tag, it seems there is no one nearby with a Samsung phone to relay the tag.
I am looking for a proximity/vicinity Sensor I can open my tv place in there with the reader stuck maybe even with epoxy on my tv stand. If the tv moves out of range of the reader, maybe a metre I get notified.
I have looked at everything from rfid, but I am very new to smart sensors. Only smart things I have ever is a plug and now the Smart tag, I don’t have a hub or anything and I am looking at a low cost solution and hopefully even get into home assistant.
My advice is to look into improving your door and window security via door and window sensors and improving the strength of the door plate setup after that you can invest in HA and use ESP32 BT proxies to help with BT device detection via signal strength.
It’s better to get alerts to the break in via the external sensors first and only after worry about internal sensors for device tracking data.
If you don’t already have a camera system then I suggest to look into the reolink NVR bundle as its one of the more popular out of the box option that also works with HA when you do get that setup.
If your TV is connected to Home Assistant you could just get home assistant to alert you if the media player entity becomes unavailable. No tag required.
triggers:
- trigger: state
entity_id: media_player.samsung_tv
to:
- unavailable
- unknown
actions:
- action: notify. etc...