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krommetje
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Hi guys,
What if I want to add automatic people detection to ph?
My idea is as follows:
I carry with me some kind of tag which detects in turn my presence at home. PH knows I am at home and acts accordingly. Any hardware ideas on this?
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dhoward
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Peter,
What I do is reserve a DHCP address in my router for my smartphone (so it'll always have the same IP) and then use the ph_ping1 function to check if its available every 5 minutes.
When Im home, my phone is automatically connected to my wifi and the ping works. When Im outside the range of my wifi, then the ping fails.
Do a forum search as I know several other people have done the same thing. Gadgetguy has put together some code so that this can work with an iphone (I use android so just a ping works for me).
Dave.
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krommetje
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I've got this running also but it is depending on WiFi.
What if I would like to be independant from WiFi?
What is the difference between ph-ping and ph-ping1?
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lizaoreo
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I've seen where some people experimented with active RFID tagging and such. Most seemed to agree that it was too sporadic to actually track where a person was, but it worked for seeing who was in a building (or home).
There's a few other ways I've seen people do it mentioned on the homeautomation subreddit on reddit. One guy used Bluetooth dongles on several computers throughout the house to detect when a phone was in range to decide roughly where a person was.
Here's one example: Here
Other links for the topic I've looked at: Here, Here
Edited by lizaoreo - July 15 2014 at 12:02
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