Know Who’s at the Office (or Home) with the Raspberry Pi WiFi presence

[JDRoberts]

@goverland

Found this from Initial State via Life Hacker, Know Who’s at the Office with the Raspberry Pi, http://blog.initialstate.com/know-whos-at-the-office-with-the-raspberry-pi/#!prettyPhoto. Seems like it would make a good replacement or augment the ability to detect presence. I know in my case, I connect to my WiFi before I enter the house.

There are a number of community members already doing something similar. This type of option is discussed in the presence FAQ.

FAQ: The Many Ways of Detecting Presence (2020)

Presence, regardless of the device you use, is one of those features that works great for some people, not at all for other people, and is randomly flaky for still others. It’s very much affected by local conditions. So some people will find that phone presence works much better than the SmartThings-branded presence sensor. Other people will find the reverse. Still other people, myself included, find that they have to use a combination of two devices in order to get reliable presence indication. So if this feature tends to work differently for different people, where do you start? 1. Using a Smart Phone as a Presence Indicator [image] Well, since most people who have SmartThings have a smart phone, it’s worth starting there. This method has changed significantly in the change fro…