#HOME ASSISTANT RADBEACON MAC#

This doesn’t work well because I can be in the room, but BT room presence falsely reports that I’m away from the room. This trigger is faster than using wifi to detect when I arrive home.īad example of BT for room presense: If person has left the room, turn off the lights. This automation works reliably, every day.Īnother example: If person has left the house and if person returns to the house (iBeacon in front door area) after >10 minutes of being away, then trigger “welcome back home” automation. Logic is like: If person has entered the bathroom zone for the first time today and it’s after 6am, then trigger automation. I’ve been using iBeacons (radbeacon) for about a year, and my experience is that BT presence is good for triggering “arrival events” but not reliable for sustained “I am still here” state.įor example, I have an automation that is triggered when I wake up in the morning and go to the bathroom. My iBeacon goes to “confidence 0” way too often. when the beacon is broadcasting every 1000ms? Is there a way to see all the beacon advertisements in terminal, e.g. It’s the same distance (2m - 3m) from monitor. My iPhones are in known_static_addresses and iBeacons in known_beacon_addresses.ĮDIT: After leaving home and coming back with a car (with the iBeacon inside) monitor has been showing solid “confidence 100” for 20h now.

#HOME ASSISTANT RADBEACON MAC#

I’m living in rural/country area and my blacklist has some 10 mac addresses. I’m monitoring 2 iPhones and 3 iBeacons and have blacklisted every unwanted broadcasting BT device/MAC I can detect. This iBeacon drops to “confidence 0” on average once every hour.

When I arrive home with my car the iBeacon is usually detected 10m away from the monitor-RPi. My iBeacon is broadcasting at +4dB power/1000ms interval only some 3m away from the monitor-RPi inside my car. I’m running monitor on Raspberry Pi Zero on Wifi with internal BT+Wifi enabled (no dongles).

Home assistant radbeacon