MQTT Home Presence 0.9
Paid Version
Publisher Description
MQTT Home Presence - Detect presence using bluetooth detection, HomeAssistant / MQTT
Presence detection platform using bluetooth devices, re-use an old Smarphone as a presence detection manager, when detecting a allowed device, it will communicate it through MQTT then with HomeAssistant you can do the presence automation.
Prerequisites
MQTT Broker
Home Assistant
Old Smarphone Android
Setup
1 Open App
2 Menu Wizard configuration
3 Room settings (Don't forget to click save to save the changes)
4 Add Allowed Devices, add the devices of each member of your family or friends
5 Configure MQTT client, set up the MQTT client, check the connection to your MQTT broker ((Don't forget to click save to save the changes)
6 Click Done
7 Now you can press play and a background service will run, every minute
or the time you configure in options, it will make a discovery of the devices around it, if it matches one with the list of allowed devices it will send it with MQTT
Integration with Home Assistant
For integration into Home Assistant is done using an mqtt sensor, see example
configuration.yaml
sensor:
- platform: mqtt
state_topic: 'andrews_home/first_floor/FF:00:11:22:36:11'
value_template: '{{ value_json.confidence }}'
unit_of_measurement: '%'
name: 'Andrew First Floor'
The mac address of the bluetooth device is sent as part of the topic mqtt
How the confidence value is obtained?
Confidence value ranges from 0 to 1.0
If a device is found it increases by 0.5
If a allowed device is not visible the range of bluetooth detection, it is decreased by 0.33
About MQTT Home Presence
MQTT Home Presence is a paid app for Android published in the System Maintenance list of apps, part of System Utilities.
The company that develops MQTT Home Presence is Codelaby. The latest version released by its developer is 0.9.
To install MQTT Home Presence on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2020-04-24 and was downloaded 1 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the MQTT Home Presence as malware as malware if the download link to com.webserveis.mqtthomepresence is broken.
How to install MQTT Home Presence on your Android device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
- Once the MQTT Home Presence is shown in the Google Play listing of your Android device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the Install button located below the search bar and to the right of the app icon.
- A pop-up window with the permissions required by MQTT Home Presence will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
- MQTT Home Presence will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.
