So I'm about to move into a new house and going to do a much more extravagant HA system that I've been planning for some time. I have not used homeseer previously, but have determined to purchase hspro and use my existing zwave and x10 devices to start out.
I want to do a simple RFID type identification to determine who just moved across an area, initially for security purposes. Say I have an area on the side of my house that someone would have to walk through to get to my door/porch. I want to put a simple motion sensor up and flood light there, which when triggered in a standby alarm state, should just turn on the light, and maybe chime a bell inside the house. However I wanted to weed out false alarms, of say "approved" people that may be legitimately outside. The cheapest solution that came to mind was to use one of my old routers w/ ddwrt and pick up when an approved mac address is in distance of the router and has a singal strength of less then -50 (means the person is probably within 10ft of it on a regular cell phone strength wifi). I can easily get this information from a ssh/shell script, or I could even build a simple app or web page that would return the information if need be.
My question is: assuming I'm using HSPRO and not HSTOUCH, is it possible to script this :
1) determine when motion sensor B is triggered
2) either ssh, call a windows app i make, or get data returned by a URL
3) if the above returns a "false" or whatever flag - turn on flood light and chime a bell inside the house
I'm not looking for anyone to write the script, I'm just asking if the above is feasible or if anyone has anymore thoughts/suggestions on my scenario.
Thanks!
I want to do a simple RFID type identification to determine who just moved across an area, initially for security purposes. Say I have an area on the side of my house that someone would have to walk through to get to my door/porch. I want to put a simple motion sensor up and flood light there, which when triggered in a standby alarm state, should just turn on the light, and maybe chime a bell inside the house. However I wanted to weed out false alarms, of say "approved" people that may be legitimately outside. The cheapest solution that came to mind was to use one of my old routers w/ ddwrt and pick up when an approved mac address is in distance of the router and has a singal strength of less then -50 (means the person is probably within 10ft of it on a regular cell phone strength wifi). I can easily get this information from a ssh/shell script, or I could even build a simple app or web page that would return the information if need be.
My question is: assuming I'm using HSPRO and not HSTOUCH, is it possible to script this :
1) determine when motion sensor B is triggered
2) either ssh, call a windows app i make, or get data returned by a URL
3) if the above returns a "false" or whatever flag - turn on flood light and chime a bell inside the house
I'm not looking for anyone to write the script, I'm just asking if the above is feasible or if anyone has anymore thoughts/suggestions on my scenario.
Thanks!
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