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💬General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Dlwhitehouse on September 06, 2010, 07:50:10 PM

Title: Detect my presence with wifi?
Post by: Dlwhitehouse on September 06, 2010, 07:50:10 PM

Does anyone know if there is function available to detect when I am home by detecting my mobile wifi presence ( I know the technology is available as there is an app for android phones that detects wifi presence and acts accordingly)

So I would like it to detect me personally then obviously act accordingly with some preset macro, or is there another way of doing this ?

Thanks

Title: Re: Detect my presence with wifi?
Post by: pconroy on September 07, 2010, 11:37:25 PM

Let me make sure I understand.

You walk into the house with your Droid, or iPhone -- wifi enabled.
You'd like some device to detect the wifi signal and take some action?



I have no idea if there is an appliance, but I know how I'd do it with a DHCP server and Linux.
If that helps.

Title: Re: Detect my presence with wifi?
Post by: J.B. on September 07, 2010, 11:56:42 PM

Not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for but worth a read:

http://forums.x10.com/index.php?topic=19346.0

Title: Re: Detect my presence with wifi?
Post by: Tuicemen on September 08, 2010, 07:01:34 PM

Currently BlueWatch doesn't watch wifi how ever it may in the future.
Dlwhitehouse
There is a program that does some network IP watching called Xping (http://larryo.org/work/information/x10ping/index.htm)
you may be able to get it to do what your after.

Title: Re: Detect my presence with wifi?
Post by: pconroy on September 08, 2010, 09:40:08 PM

X10ping - this link worked for me:

http://larryo.org/work/information/x10ping/index.html

Title: Re: Detect my presence with wifi?
Post by: Dlwhitehouse on September 09, 2010, 04:43:47 AM

Thanks guys.. im going to give X10Ping and BlueWatch a go and see what works out best :)