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The phone is just one of many devices that have BT hardware built in. Since the world is about mobile now the phone is what will come up first in searches. RPi, ESP32, most laptops and tablets also have BT. For HA you will likely want to use a stationary device at the house that is pinging for announcements.
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What I am trying to do is determining if there is nobody at home and if nobody is at home and the home is not armed and want to arm it. It appears to me that the best way to do this is by making sure no cellular phone is in the house anymore for a few minutes and no motion has been detected anymore for some minutes. That's why I am interested in understanding how this Feasycom beacon works. If it requires an app to run on the phone and the app is not actually running then HS will think the phone is away which creates a possible false alarm.
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Originally posted by mulu View PostWhat I am trying to do is determining if there is nobody at home and if nobody is at home and the home is not armed and want to arm it. It appears to me that the best way to do this is by making sure no cellular phone is in the house anymore for a few minutes and no motion has been detected anymore for some minutes. That's why I am interested in understanding how this Feasycom beacon works. If it requires an app to run on the phone and the app is not actually running then HS will think the phone is away which creates a possible false alarm.
Indeed there is one company in Europe which managed to solve this with a car module which is connected to the car headlamp flasher to send a signal to the server when you are near your house but they are so stubborn they only do 868.3 Frequency and only Jeedom has ever been able to tap into their API.
They do a Fob-key as well which brings forward the idea of maybe one can modify a Zwave panic button and installed in the car front grill (That sounds so stone age )- Car transmitter (EMCCAR) : https://doc.eedomus.com/en/index.php...itter_(EMCCAR)
- Remote e-Trendy (ETC4) : https://doc.eedomus.com/en/index.php...-Trendy_(ETC4)
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mulu...just an fyi ...and guessing you know...that things like locative and geofency run in the background on your phone. They don't need to show in the list of apps running to work. That how it works on my iPhone anyway. I'm not an android user.
Eman... I've looked at those but want "automation." To me that means I need to do nothing for it to work.
Michael...Could you clarify if your BT plugin can run on a USB device plugged into a Windows 10 based HS server and support BT5 devices? Or, do I need to build the ESP type devices?
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Michael...Could you clarify if your BT plugin can run on a USB device plugged into a Windows 10 based HS server and support BT5 devices? Or, do I need to build the ESP type devices?
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I received the 4000m and a BLE 5 USB plug for my desktop today. I confirmed I am able to recognize the 4000m and the 500m and a few other non-beacon BLE devices such as a laptop and phone. I was not able to recognize the iBeacon from BlueCharm that I had used on my ESP32 development. I was able to with the ESP32 and RPi. Need to fire up an ESP32 to confirm the iBeacon still works.
I started down the path of converting the ESP32 C code to .NET. It is about 2000 lines and much work. What I think I will do is make it a two step process. The first is just detection in-range vs. out-of-range. The second is to complete the code conversion so Windows can be one of the BLE servers upon which the location can be trilaterated.
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The HS4 mcsMQTT plugin version 5.6.0.0 is at http://mcsSprinklers.com/HSPI_mcsMQTT_5_6_0_0.zip. The Zip is placed in the HS4 folder and the file in the zip updater_override.json is extracted to also in the HS4 folder. From the Plugins menu select Add and the only HS4 one that shows up is mcsMQTT. Select it. Remove updater_override.json to restore normal updater operation.
I have done my work in Windows 10 so the Windows libraries included support it. I dont know what will happen if other versions of Windows are attempted. Linux is disabled. I left the beacon scan showing in the console window so if Developer Mode has been enabled you will get a console screen and see the beacons. I will remove this feedback later.
Open a discussion thread on the HS4 mcsMQTT forum if you want to continue on this topic with mcsMQTT.
mcsMQTT.pdf is also in the zip and put in the \Docs\mcsMQTT folder. Look in particular at Section 12.5 on starting on Page 1213.
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Originally posted by beachcruiser View PostIs there a way to have a geofence set up without using any other apps beyond what the cell phone already has in place?
another question - could the geofence be based on the device(phone) connecting to a local wifi to enable to allow events?
It a bit confusing to set up, but you can load the Geofency and Locative on your phone and they work fairly well as long as you have 100% solid cell service at you house. I don't and I like thinks to run local anyway. Look at some of my other recent posts. There has been a lot of discussion around mcsMQTT.
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I had a very similar experience with my phone jumping large distances outside of the geofence. I had a "vacation mode" that was getting tripped. Turns out, some phones use Wifi access points in a database. Sometimes, it would think an Access point is in China. Sometimes Nebraska. If you have a neighbor that moved recently and took their access point with them, this can cause you grief.
I ended up calculating the speed it would take to get from one point to the next since the last reading, and if it was greater than 100 MPH, I would just drop it.
Beacons are great, but once things get back to normal-- occasionally I ride my bike to work.HS3 Pro Edition 3.0.0.435 (Windows Server 8.1 on ESXi box)
Plug-Ins Enabled:
Z-Wave:,RaspberryIO:,AirplaySpeak:,Ecobee:,
weatherXML:,JowiHue:,APCUPSD:,PHLocation:,Chromecast:,EasyTr igger:
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Originally posted by wpiman View PostBeacons are great, but once things get back to normal-- occasionally I ride my bike to work.Michael
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