How to detect Wifi presence on Asus router to disable in-home cameras?

[marktheknife (Mark)]

@bercaw

I briefly looked at the ST presence sensors but the reviews were mixed, which is why i started looking for something that integrated with the router.

Have you tried using your phone as a mobile presence sensor in ST automations?

For some people it doesn’t work well, and so they look for other solutions. There is a thread about using WiFi for presence with Asus routers.

If you really wanted to do it the way you proposed, this thread might help, and it’s interesting either way.

[OBSOLETE] ASUSWRT Wifi Presence

I have created a pretty solid wifi presence solution for when my phones connect to the wifi network, its very quick to update ST. I use this alongside the ST app, Life360 & my own Tado presence device type, i use Rule machine to flip a virtual presence sensor when any of the 4 change state, this is a first past the post setup and it works really well, before i put this in presence was really an issue. this however always triggers when all the others fail to update (regularly) but the range of this is not very far, only within the wifi range (obviously!) ive seen other solutions for DD-WRT, but these don’t work with the Newer Asus routers, RT-AC87U or Newer as the command to list mac addresses with the new 5G hardware no longer uses wl ok so the first thing i did was install the latest A…