Idea how to monitor people at home

[Guest Roman]

Hi, I want to share some idea.

This example works for me, and probably it will be helpful for others.

 

Me and my wife always use Wi-Fi on our cellphones.

There is a script which allows to scan network and detect if mobile phone connected at this moment.

 

This idea allows to change the behavior of house according to it. Only one thing you need to set up mac address of device.

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[Guest 22]

So I guess that you are running this as a Virtual Device. Are you running this every X minutes or so?

[Guest Roman]

Yes exactly.
So there is possibility to:

- turn everything off, if there is no people at home.

- adapt climate according to preverences.

- allow to turn on the light only in one room, if there is only one person at home.

- use different voice notifications according to people at home.

 

These are only several ideas how to use this.

[suds32nz 0]

Looks Like a good idea would this work on the HCL as a virtual device ??

[Guest 22]

I've no real need for it as I'm using tasker (Android app) to handel all this stuff, but looks like your code might work.

Only problem with running it ever X minutes is that it will put some strain/stress on the HC2.

[marton 1]

I am doing exactly the same thing, but also checking bluetooth. Wifi on iPhones tend to go to sleep after a while, but bluetooth low energy is always on. I have a raspberry pi and a script that checks every 1 minute if our phones are home. If there is a change then it updates a variable in HCL according to presence. Lighting and heating is turned off and alarm is armed if we leave.

[Tony270570 107]

Hi Marton, could you please give us more info on the approach your are using to detect BT with your rasp? Did you had the chance to try it with iphones?

Thank you very much for your feedback!!

[marton 1]

Sure! It works with iPhones, we have two and no problem! So I run a script every minute to check if the phones are home or not. It updates a database and also runs a scene in HCL. In the database I store the bluetooth mac addresses of the phones and their static ip addresses. I set it up in my router so that the phones get the same ip address every time. With this I just add another line in the database and I can check 3 phones, and so on.

 

I am using a file to store if someone was home, so I won't update the HCL every minute, just when a change happens.

 

 

Here is the script, but please forgive me for any coding nonsense as I have very-very little knowledge about how to code. However this works

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#/bin/bash

file="/home/pi/yes"

anybody_home=0

date=$(date +"%H:%M");

 

#check if someone was already home

filecheck=$([ -f $file ])$?

 

while read -a row

do

    #echo "${row[0]} ${row[1]} ${row[2]} ${row[3]} ${row[4]}"

    #check for bluetooth and ping

    btcheck=$(hcitool name "${row[3]}" | grep -q "${row[0]}")$?

    ping=$(ping -q -c1 "${row[4]}" > /dev/null 2>&1)$?

    #echo "btcheck: $btcheck  ping: $ping"

    #someone is home but was not before

    if [ $btcheck = 0 ] || [ $ping = 0 ]

      then

      echo "${row[0]} is home"

      anybody_home=1

      if [ "${row[1]}" = "no" ]

        then

         mysql --user="user" --password="pass" --database="home_automation" --execute="UPDATE anybody_home SET ishome='yes', date='$date' WHERE who='${row[0]}';";

      fi

    fi

    #someone was home, but not anymore

    if [ $btcheck = 1 ] && [ $ping = 1 ] && [ "${row[1]}" = "yes" ]

      then

      echo "${row[0]} is away but was home before"

      mysql --user="user" --password="pass" --database="home_automation" --execute="UPDATE anybody_home SET ishome='no', date='0' WHERE who='${row[0]}';";

    fi

done < <(echo "SELECT * FROM anybody_home" | mysql --database="home_automation" --user="user" --password="pass")

 

echo "Anybody home: $anybody_home"

 

if [ $anybody_home = 1 ] && [ $filecheck = 1 ]

then

 #someone is home, but not before, updating fibaro

 echo "someone is home, but not before, updating fibaro"

 curl -G "

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 touch $file

fi

 

if [ $anybody_home = 0 ] && [ $filecheck = 0 ]

then

 #someone was home, but left, updating fibaro

 echo "someone was home, but left, updating fibaro"

 curl -G "

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 rm -f $file

fi

[Bamsefar 13]

There are a few scripts around that one can run on the router (AsusWRT from RMerlin or DD-WRT based routers) which checks if there is a specific MAC adress on the WLAN connection without ping or any sort of discovery (no battery usage on cellphone). As far as I know this works for all devices I know of, sleep or not sleep. My script is run every 5 seconds, and uses less than 1% CPU on the router - I guess I could run it even more frequent if I need. Anyway, combined with a VD, this gives a bit better solution in my installation.

[JohanSj 4]

Would this be possible to do on a HCL, without LUA?

Any ideas on how?

[Bamsefar 13]

Well, the VD is exportable, and if I remember correct a VD is importable in HCL?

 

Edit: Well I guess one could rewrite the script in the router to call two different scripts to do "home" and "away" - never tried it though....

[D-Vine 65]

There are a few scripts around that one can run on the router (AsusWRT from RMerlin or DD-WRT based routers) which checks if there is a specific MAC adress on the WLAN connection without ping or any sort of discovery (no battery usage on cellphone). As far as I know this works for all devices I know of, sleep or not sleep. My script is run every 5 seconds, and uses less than 1% CPU on the router - I guess I could run it even more frequent if I need. Anyway, combined with a VD, this gives a bit better solution in my installation.

 

I have a asus running on DD WRT firmware and check the phone's on MAC with a VD of Jompa86 (still thanks alot) and checking every 4 min. with GEA script (push the VD button) if me or my girlfriend are at home.

Going to test this VD also.. love to play with those presented check with mobiles

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[Tony270570 107]

Sure! It works with iPhones, we have two and no problem! So I run a script every minute to check if the phones are home or not. It updates a database and also runs a scene in HCL. In the database I store the bluetooth mac addresses of the phones and their static ip addresses. I set it up in my router so that the phones get the same ip address every time. With this I just add another line in the database and I can check 3 phones, and so on.

 

I am using a file to store if someone was home, so I won't update the HCL every minute, just when a change happens.

 

 

Here is the script, but please forgive me for any coding nonsense as I have very-very little knowledge about how to code. However this works

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#/bin/bash

file="/home/pi/yes"

anybody_home=0

date=$(date +"%H:%M");

 

#check if someone was already home

filecheck=$([ -f $file ])$?

 

while read -a row

do

    #echo "${row[0]} ${row[1]} ${row[2]} ${row[3]} ${row[4]}"

    #check for bluetooth and ping

    btcheck=$(hcitool name "${row[3]}" | grep -q "${row[0]}")$?

    ping=$(ping -q -c1 "${row[4]}" > /dev/null 2>&1)$?

    #echo "btcheck: $btcheck  ping: $ping"

    #someone is home but was not before

    if [ $btcheck = 0 ] || [ $ping = 0 ]

      then

      echo "${row[0]} is home"

      anybody_home=1

      if [ "${row[1]}" = "no" ]

        then

         mysql --user="user" --password="pass" --database="home_automation" --execute="UPDATE anybody_home SET ishome='yes', date='$date' WHERE who='${row[0]}';";

      fi

    fi

    #someone was home, but not anymore

    if [ $btcheck = 1 ] && [ $ping = 1 ] && [ "${row[1]}" = "yes" ]

      then

      echo "${row[0]} is away but was home before"

      mysql --user="user" --password="pass" --database="home_automation" --execute="UPDATE anybody_home SET ishome='no', date='0' WHERE who='${row[0]}';";

    fi

done < <(echo "SELECT * FROM anybody_home" | mysql --database="home_automation" --user="user" --password="pass")

 

echo "Anybody home: $anybody_home"

 

if [ $anybody_home = 1 ] && [ $filecheck = 1 ]

then

 #someone is home, but not before, updating fibaro

 echo "someone is home, but not before, updating fibaro"

 curl -G "

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 touch $file

fi

 

if [ $anybody_home = 0 ] && [ $filecheck = 0 ]

then

 #someone was home, but left, updating fibaro

 echo "someone was home, but left, updating fibaro"

 curl -G "

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 rm -f $file

fi

Thank you very much Marton, i'll test it!

[Sankotronic 2,370]

I have question, what if I forget my phone at home, or even better if I came home and realize that my phone is lost, or if my phone die on me?

[D-Vine 65]

I have question, what if I forget my phone at home, or even better if I came home and realize that my phone is lost, or if my phone die on me?

 

Think you know the answer yourself, phone not with you then you can's check it

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Like you lost you keys of the house you can't enter it. But with this you can disable the phone check for some time and press a button home / away manually

 

But with al this Lambik have a great VD Presence Detector that detects al motions sensors in the house if you are home or not. (no phones needed )

 

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Please read careful, change the bugs in script with the bug reporter at page 1 and you good to go!

 

I do a triple check now, 2 of them are with the phones (at home global 1 or 0 and in combination with a last seen) and those combine with the presence detector makes it stable and independent of the phone with you or not. Or in my case when my mother take care of my lovely daughter at home when i'n at work  

(codes are from jompa and lambik )

[sjauquet 16]

 

Hi, I want to share some idea.

This example works for me, and probably it will be helpful for others.

 

Me and my wife always use Wi-Fi on our cellphones.

There is a script which allows to scan network and detect if mobile phone connected at this moment.

 

This idea allows to change the behavior of house according to it. Only one thing you need to set up mac address of device.

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Hi Roman,

Thanks for sharing this little code, it works flawlessly !!!

I implemented it "my way" here: 

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 with all the bells and whistles 

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Enjoy !

[Guest Roman]

You are welcome

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I am glad that this idea was useful for you.

 

There is new idea. I use this code when some IP device doesn't allow to set static IP.

This code allows to find IP if we know mac address.

 

Several audio speakers do now allow to set static IP:

[Kage 37]

so if am ride

 

local login = "login to HC2"; --> is your loginnaam HC2 Fibaro
local pass = "pass to HC2"; --> is your password HC2 Fibaro
local mac = "mac address of device";--> is mac adress of a phone

local HC2 = Net.FHttp("127.0.0.1", 80); --> is your IP-adres HC2Fibaro
HC2:setBasicAuthentication(login, pass); --> Calls the login and password HC2 Fibaro

how does it find the mac adress, isn't that in your router

 

try to understand

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[Guest Roman]

Thank you, sjauquet!

 

I read your code and improved script. I didn't know about possibility to call Fibaro HC2 through port 11111 without login and pass. 

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To Kage.

This script allows to call HC2 itself. 127.0.0.1 this is localhost (internal ip address of HC2).

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When I call:

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IP>/api/networkDiscovery/arp

 

It returns json with all mac and ip addresses in network.

Also helpfull info located here:

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[Kage 37]

my local 127.0.0.1 is my server so i wil change it to my IP 192.168.0.123

the mac adress is that also of the HC2