![]() ![]() That being said I can recommend the system. I then learned about the Unifi binding, and how it could also track people’s movement within the house (by tracking which AP they were connected to.) So in an effort to reduce the gadgets laying around in the rooms of our house I decided to remove the Room Assistant nodes. For example, if you want to track the bedroom, living room and kitchen you would need to setup 3 different devices that are then placed in those rooms. I had an access point in most of the rooms of the house (its a solidly built German house with thick brick walls). Place a small Linux board like the Raspberry Pi Zero W into any room you want to track and install room-assistant on it. Unrelated to this, I upgraded my home wifi network using Ubiquiti’s Unifi line of equipment. Its a known issue with her model of Samsung phone. ![]() After some investigation I discovered that it was the bluetooth signal from the Room Assistant nodes (R Pi Zero W). She couldn’t connect to the wifi, nor her smartwatch. It takes some tweaking of the RSSI settings to get the accuracy desired, but that wasn’t a problem.Īfter setting it up my wife complained of phone problems. But not because I was dissatisfied, but because it was overtaken by another event (which I will explain.)īut to answer your question, Room Assistant worked fine. I'm planning to do more videos of what I do and learn, with vscode use and splitting my config (like Frenck did) being on the list, so it will be covered there, and then I can reference it.Bottom Line up front: I am no longer using Room Assistant. That being said, I did not want to go into much detail, just get this thing working. I'll try that in future videos.įor vscode, I'm new to this myself, so thanks for the suggestions, will try those out. However, you are right I could have mentioned it more in detail. This will happen every time you restart ha. ![]() Downside is seen after setting up the sensor and restarting ha: the sensor has no value until my Bluetooth changes. I mention it will only send a mqtt message when the detection does change, so less noise on your network and mqtt broker. ![]() I was trying to stick to his write-up, and he used apt-get for git, so I used that one when aptitude didn't work.įor the -c, I kind of mention it, but not in detail. I'm not sure what the difference is between aptitude, apt-get and apt, but they all work. But I might make a blog with easy copy paste instructions. While the intend is good, the owner stopped maintaining it, and since I'm not a coder, I don't want to give people false hope it is maintained in a fork. ![]()
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