I’d like to use my smartphone WiFi SSID to determine if I’m home or not. When I’m home the alarm (kinda, just notifications from some sensors) needs to be shut off and a light needs to be turned on. Since the sensors update can be forced at maximum 1 minute (but I’d prefer to leave it at 15 minutes to preserve battery) and since 1 minute is too much, is there a way to send an intent to HA companion app to send a sensors update? I would use Tasker to send the intent.
I missed that piece of information, thanks a lot!
The router polling integration is probably a bit superfluous for devices that have the companion app installed.
Although, it’s still helpful for other devices like guests’ phones, or non android/ios devices.
Not sure how helpfully to your use case these will be, but a few ideas…
It’s been a while since I tinkered, but I think you can also assign multiple devices to a person and track the person’s presence instead of a specific device.
You can also create a group of persons, which is handy for some use cases.
As an example, I have a
group.uswhich containsperson.meandperson.mypartner. The group’s status ishomeif either of us are home and only changes to away if neither of us are home.Similarly, I have a
group.guestswhich contains guests who sometimes spend the night.If any guests are home, my goodnight automation ignores the bathroom and the guest bedroom lights.
group.guests:entity_id: - input_text.manual_guest_tracker - person.guest - person.fren - person.otherfren - person.olefren - person.stepbro - person.nephew - person.cousin - person.niece order: 3 icon: mdi:bag-carry-on friendly_name: GuestsI have an input boolean that changes input_text.manual_guest_tracker to home/not_home if we wanna enable “guests mode” without having to track a device.
Single person with multiple trackers:
person.fren:editable: true id: fren device_trackers: - device_tracker.applewafren - device_tracker.iphonefren friendly_name: Fren