Migrating from SmartThings to Vera Plus

[ritchierich (Michael)]

Checkout AsusWRT:
https://asuswrt.lostrealm.ca

I was a DD-WRT user for over 10 years and finally gave up when all my iOS devices kept dropping frequently all day - something in DD-WRT was causing it. I bought an Asus but really wanted the VPN server back plus some other features the stock firmware didn’t have. AsusWRT was the answer. It’s based in the stock firmware but has more capabilities. You can run the presence script on it too:

[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…

But like you I have another AP so it doesn’t work.