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Dlwhitehouse

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Detect my presence with wifi?
« 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
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pconroy

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Re: Detect my presence with wifi?
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Detect my presence with wifi?
« Reply #2 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
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Re: Detect my presence with wifi?
« Reply #3 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
you may be able to get it to do what your after.
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Re: Detect my presence with wifi?
« Reply #4 on: September 08, 2010, 09:40:08 PM »

« Last Edit: September 08, 2010, 09:42:08 PM by pconroy »
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Dlwhitehouse

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Re: Detect my presence with wifi?
« Reply #5 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 :)
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