Issue with Phones as Presence Sensors

[rontalley]

You can reserve your phones IP in your router and use Host Pinger for addition Presence Sensors then make a CoRE piston that states if either presence sensor changes to present then…

[OBSOLETE] Host Pinger (IP based Online State / Presence)

SmartThings Host Pinger Using an EXE or Python script running on any computer (Windows, Mac or Linux) - Ping any IP, host name or URL and pass this to a switch in SmartThings! Code and Program Location: Requirements 1. Application to Ping Hosts (running on any PC connected to the internet.) >> Option A - STHostPinger.exe - Application (Windows or Mac&Linux via Mono) - config.config needs to be configured with details as described below and can be running on any PC connected to the internet. >> Option B - PingerPy - Python Script - Cross platform script based on python, which also provides a web interface to configure the settings, you will need to download Python to use this. >> Option C - Arduino / ESP8266 Device - Use a small piece of Arduino/ESP8266 compatible hardware such as t…

I use this cool app for all kinds of things connected to my router. It has been one of the best apps, for me, in regards to controlling on/off status of things like PCs/TVs/Consoles etc… Basically anything with an IP address…Try it out!