I put this in EVERY room! Smart room detection

Not smart enough for this and don’t have the time to learn it, but looks super cool. Maybe one day… or maybe it’ll just be included in stuff by the time I get around it to it, lol.

Can this detect any Bluetooth device as opposed to registering a specific one?

I understand the fun part of it.

But doesn't SmartThings and Alexa already do this with all their devices? Like... right out of the box? Because your phone or smart watch all have bluetooth on them already.

They can be set to turn on lights when "X" person walks in the room or unlock the door when you walk up to it.

So, I get the whole "I did it, myself" part, but.. it cost ya $50 more and now you gotta hope you can make it work with everything else.

What about setting off an alarm when the presence of an unknown Bluetooth device is detected?

What if an intruder is creeping around your ground floor windows or the patio door? You could set the range to a meter or so and it would alert you that someone is looking in or actually breaking in.

Add a mm wave detector to increase the odds on your side (in case the intruder does not have any BT device on them).

It would be interesting to see how this would work in our house where the family is directly below our bedroom

The sheer amount of this generation’s stupidity will never cease to amaze me.

How do we get the dashboard sensor to show the Distance to the Room its connected to? I am only able to show what Area my Apple watch is connected to, but not able to find a way to show distance?

I may try this with our princess cruise medallion. Their medallion class ships have something like this where you can use their app and find your family anywhere on the ship! It will even guide you to them google maps style.

Does anyone know if this can be used to just "sense" a BT device in a room indifferent of the address? im just more interested in knowing if a BT device is in a given room than to who or what its connected to, the reason being is one such BT device is a blood glucose transmitter, and that hardware address will change every time the transmitter expires and is replaced, so hard-coding a specific ID will only work for short periods of time.. why I was asking if its possible to just generically detect any BT device near by without needing a hardware address ..

I have a cheaper solution! Just call the CIA and they'll tell you exactly with accuracy where are you located. Telephone calls are free, so are contained in the telephone service, so let's say that its a solution for free. CIA will take care of Big Brother location services. And that's ALWAYS!

Problem with ESPresence is that it doesn't really work for guests. You need millimeter-wave or something similar to have "real" room presence detection. But that is alot more expensive.

"and that way you'll be able to know if you're near that room or not"
If I am in my OWN HOUSE I think I would KNOW WHAT ROOM I AM NEAR!!!

Try using Wifi signal instead of bluetooth. By monitoring the relative signal strenght you get a pretty decent sensor.

Can you do this with Amazon Alexa?

Does this work with multiple people/devices in the same room?

Just throwing it out there. Currently, I'm using ESPhome and have installed motion sensors in various locations within my home, backyard, and garage. I have three ESP8266s running smoothly under HA/ESPhome, which effectively report back whenever motion is detected.

My objective is to create a central ESP8266, to which all the motion sensors can communicate. I plan to attach a circuit board with LEDs to this central ESP8266, allowing the LEDs to illuminate based on the specific location where motion was detected around the home.
Possible? Don't want to use Arduino solutions as I am only running Home Assistant and ESPhome.

What does it add? If it does not de Lights?

All this just to tell you what run you're in your OWN HOUSE? I don't get the point of this.

🤔 would it also work with Tile? Or other devices

Nope. Not wearing a tracking device in order to operate my smart home. Not wearing a watch, not wearing a tag, not carrying a phone

Why do I want a computer to know where I am? It would never work for me, since I will never wear an Apple watch.

Useless Gimmicks...

I have a far out idea if this could be used to turn lights on etc, put one waterproof case out at the gate so it knows you are home and like activates lights etc for you getting in to the house?

A solution looking for a problem. Why do people get so excited about useless things?

You don’t know where you are in your house
Can’t help you.

Does it also work with other smart watches like my Garmin forerunner245 ? Its has Bluetooth connection to my phone?
And do you have a video with the cheapest way to get(hardware)to run Home Assistant? Because raspberry pi's aren't available (sadly)

This isn't person or presence detection, it's Apple watch (or BT device) detection. From the title I was expecting radar detection and somehow limiting the detection to rooms by combining multiple detectors or so.

Is this for in case you forgot where in the house you are?

You lost my attention at Bluetooth

You can make a hot and cold thing with lights when you're looking for things. "Find my phone" all lights are blue until you get closer to yellow lights and red lights for where it is...

Any one got an idea how to find an Apple Watch IRK without a macOS device?

Is there a way to get faster response? Or is it just something like BT beacon intervals

I would be so cool if this was possible with the current ZigBee devices, no extra esp module and extra power supply headache

My wife is forever misplacing her phone. I can use something like this to figure out which room the phone was last in. Would be nice if there's a "beep" function for iphone.

Thanks for reminding me to give these another go. Stuck them all over more than a year ago but never bothered to tweek the absortion. Working really good with my galaxy watch 4 and HA app.

Where did you buy the cases? I went to the link, but nowhere to buy it from?

Reed, can you do a how to on your other channel? Stay cool in our AZ heat this weekend!

Any thoughts as to why I would only have RGB solids? No color blending and no white? Running ws8215 light strips and wled on an esp8266 board

Any recommendation for a beacon?

Brilliant - thanks!

Can you explain some uses for this? I'm not understanding.

I really don't understand the purpose of this! So basically it detects your devices in your home, is it for lost and found case?

I used to use ESPresense a lot, but recently it just can’t handle the amount of BLE devices in my neighborhood. Even when upgrading to ESP32s with more memory, I get reboot loops from it crashing. I just got some more of the ROVERs that have more memory on board, and I hope that will help. I love the project and miss having detection in my office.

is there any way to add a passcode protection to cards or pages in home assistant?

Is there a way of doing room presence that doesn't involve MQTT?

This guys content is like watching a pile of dogshit dry.

Do you plan on putting a Tile on Luna?

This is my second time trying this today after seeing your video and for whatever reason I can not get my Apple Watch connected to mqtt I have no idea what I’m missing. I found the irk and everything but nothing shows up I tried messing with config files but I just get errors and when I don’t get errors it dosent work! Ahhh! This stuff can be so frustrating at times.