Home/away precense based on WiFi for iPhone

[kevin 33]

Hi,

 

I want to add a precense state for all family members. I don’t want to use GPS because it (eat) drains the battery. I have read a lot on this forum about changing a variable if the phone of person A is connected to the home wifi. On this forum there are already a lot of ideas to get it working, but a lot of these topics are old.

 

Who can tell and help me to achive this?

What do I want;

Fibaro to show who is home and who not. But all based on the precense of the iPhone connected to the home wifi.

 

I want to thank you guys already!!

 

Kevin

[Vinisz 15]

Hi Kevin,

 

Presence based on Wifi is a problem... mobile phones go into some sort of "sleep" state so you will not be alble to ping them or detect them on the wifi network all of the time.

GPS does not drain your battery, the fibaro GPS implementation does.

Without going into scripts and stuff like that to much, this may be a much more simple solution.

 

Create an "Away" scene and a "Present" scene per fam. member, let this scene change a global variable called something like "dad_home_status" to "yes" or "no"

Use IFTT ,make an applet which triggers when you leave or enter an area and then connect that to the FIbaro scene.

 

I'm testing this for over 2 months now and it works very good, fast enough that I'm even opening my gate with it automaticly.

 

Good luck.

[SmartHomeEddy 814]

Indeed, IFTTT does the job without draining your battery

[ggrizliv 4]

Guys, can you give me some example?

[SmartHomeEddy 814]

In IFTTT you can make a Geo Fence for leaving or entering an area. IFTTT can trigger a small scene e.g. for notifying someone of turning off the alarm. 

 

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[Sjakie 135]

Hi,

Looks very nice.

I am a little bit lost. I joined the link you gave and it surprised me that only giving my Fibaro ID I can see a list of all my scenes?? Who else can acces? How safe is it?

Okay for me not a big problem because I have a separate alarm system what is connected with my HC2 to let in case of alarm my lights flickering.

My alarm system is connected with a binairy relais so I am rather safe???In my idea I can not have interference or "stranger" come in  my alarm.

Just curious.

[MAM78 6]

1 hour ago, SmartHomeEddy said:

In IFTTT you can make a Geo Fence for leaving or entering an area. IFTTT can trigger a small scene e.g. for notifying someone of turning off the alarm. 

 

I think it is only possible to detect the arrival in an area and not when you leave this area.

[MAM78 6]

If you use iPhone. I implemented a solution using Apple Homekit and the Homebridge solution to make Virtual Devices visible on the Home application.
Afterwards it is very simple to use the detection of the entrances and exits of the home of the family members and to activate a button of a VD to indicate the presence or the absence of this member at home.

 

You can see my HomeMode solution here:

 

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But for the moment i described my solution in French. I will probably translate it into English here soon.

[SmartHomeEddy 814]

58 minutes ago, MAM78 said:

 

I think it is only possible to detect the arrival in an area and not when you leave this area.

 

Both are possible

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[MAM78 6]

I only see these Applet when I search under the name Fibaro

 

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[SmartHomeEddy 814]

Just make a new applet. 

 

Push new applet

Push +This

Fill in “location”

Select location icon

Select “exit” icon

Select Geo Fence

Etcetera

[kevin 33]

Wow, thanks for all the response. 

 

Coming week I will go and try with IFTTT.

 

Kevin

[MAM78 6]

1 hour ago, SmartHomeEddy said:

Just make a new applet. 

 

 

Thanks.

[SmartHomeEddy 814]

No thanks

 

IFTTT is great. You van turn on the light if an astronaut lands on the moon

[Vinisz 15]

On 2/3/2019 at 7:57 PM, SmartHomeEddy said:

No thanks

 

IFTTT is great. You van turn on the light if an astronaut lands on the moon

 

That one must be made for "dark side of the moon"

 

[kevin 33]

Good evening,

 

I have it working with IFTTT and it's working really good. But I also have a VD so I can change the variable manually if the variable is wrong I can set it right with the push of a button. But I also want that if the variable named Kevin_locatie is weg (away) (based on IFTTT location) then the icon of the VD should change. This doesn't work automatically only when I push the button in the VD. I want that the VD icon is also changing automatically based on the variable, what did I do wrong?

 

Kevin

 

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[kevin 33]

Does anyone knowns the solution for my issue above this ^ ^. 

[twanve 18]

Try this;

 

local iconThuis        = 1027;
local iconWeg          = 1028;
local iconWerken    = 1029;

 

vDeviceID = fibaro:getSelfId()

if fibaro:getGlobalValue("Kevin_locatie") == "Thuis" then
    fibaro:call(vDeviceID, "setProperty", "currentIcon", iconThuis)
end 
if fibaro:getGlobalValue("Kevin_locatie") == "Weg" then
    fibaro:call(vDeviceID, "setProperty", "currentIcon", iconWeg);
end
if fibaro:getGlobalValue("Kevin_locatie") == "Werken" then
    fibaro:call(vDeviceID, "setProperty", "currentIcon", iconWerken);
end

[kevin 33]

Thanks @twanve, it is solved.

[vanni177 0]

On 2/3/2019 at 5:27 PM, Vinisz said:

Hi Kevin,

 

Presence based on Wifi is a problem... mobile phones go into some sort of "sleep" state so you will not be alble to ping them or detect them on the wifi network all of the time.

GPS does not drain your battery, the fibaro GPS implementation does.

Without going into scripts and stuff like that to much, this may be a much more simple solution.

 

Create an "Away" scene and a "Present" scene per fam. member, let this scene change a global variable called something like "dad_home_status" to "yes" or "no"

Use IFTT ,make an applet which triggers when you leave or enter an area and then connect that to the FIbaro scene.

 

I'm testing this for over 2 months now and it works very good, fast enough that I'm even opening my gate with it automaticly.

 

Good luck.

Hi Vinisz,

 

do you have, or any one has a solution to get presence state by wifi?

Currently I use IFTT, it works so so, the accuracy is not good enough for me. I pass by my home frequently a day, but not going home.

 

I use a DrayTek Vigor2925 Router,

but I have no idea how to read out the login info of my iphone with Fibaro

 

[kevin 33]

On 2/3/2019 at 10:27 AM, Vinisz said:

mobile phones go into some sort of "sleep" state so you will not be alble to ping them or detect them on the wifi network all of the time.