The BEST Smart Home Room Presence Detection I've Tried!

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I recently heard about a new project ESPresense: a Bluetooth tracker running on relatively cheap ESP32’s that will give you room presence as you move around your smart home. In this video, I show you how it works, how to easily set it up and how to integrate it into Home Assistant for whole house room tracking for use within Home Assistant Automations!
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@17Oli 2 года назад

Im loving this project! I definitely would love to see a follow-up video on this.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

What would you like to see?

@17Oli 2 года назад

I think some creative automations using this should be pretty useful. Like a top x automations video :)

@davesadler624 2 года назад

@@EverythingSmartHome I would love to see using presence to direct a TTS notification to the nearest Echo/Google Assistant/Sonos speaker

@turnkit 2 года назад

@@EverythingSmartHome map overlay Have wanted a campus or business building map dashboard for a secretary for a long time: one look and they could see where in the building anyone is - out one at the exit and you can see what time they left. It’s all about good data and good UI.

@jorgeelima 2 года назад

@@EverythingSmartHome how do you capture the iPhone?

@MarkGhali 2 года назад

Lewis awesome video! I have been loving espresense! I would love a follow-up video on automations!! I have had this setup for awhile but not done any automations for it yet.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

That's good to know, how are you finding ESPresense so far?

@TifonEral Год назад

Set up my whole house (5 sensors, 2 waiting) in less than 2 hours, thanks for the video!!!!!

@romaomiguel 2 года назад

Hi, This is a really cool project and I've already buy some ESP32 to start with it. It would be great if 1. this is merged with ESPHOME 2. you could make a video on conditional automations to get this working 3. any blueprint to HA would be also great

@markkulepisto1159 2 года назад

Your production quality and content are excellent! congrats and thank you!

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Thanks so much, really appreciate that! Its something I take a lot of pride in and always trying to improve!

@rockettpc2 2 года назад

Really cool, I would love to see this on the interactive floorplan, position tracking, for a warehouse cause use. Track the movement of equipment and pallets or carts, etc.

@sedativejam Год назад

Haha... You said equipment, I read staff... :P

@SlackerLabs 2 года назад

Yes! This is the video I have been waiting for! So good.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Thanks Jeff! Have you tried this out yet?

@SlackerLabs 2 года назад

@@EverythingSmartHome I have not tried it yet. But I did grab some esp32s a while back so I could. Going to work on it this week

@SignedForFun 2 года назад

Nice to see two of my favorite youtubers chatting with each other. Learned a lot from you guys. Keep up the nice work. Excellent video Lewis.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Thanks man! Appreciate it!

@Asgard2693 2 года назад

I see home assistant video I click! Cheers for the content

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

A man of culture

@FloWmo619 2 года назад

Nice. Thanks for making this video, I was really hoping for one on presence detection!

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@FloWmo619 2 года назад

@@EverythingSmartHome And of course I would very much enjoy a follow up video to this one.

@rrlevy 2 года назад

Amazing project! Please do more videos on applications

@michaelmanry588 2 года назад

Another great Home Assistant video! I would also love a follow-on video (as I suspect everyone does). I did wonder if ESPresense can triangulate, since I can't exactly put the ESP32 in the center of the room.

@KalvinJack Год назад

I'm having trouble finding my device id for my apple watch on esp terminal also. device not found. been on this for hours..

@peterwronski595 2 года назад

It would be great to see some NodeRed automation samples with this presence detection. Thankyou for this video - seems so simple. I think I will try it in rooms that have limited movement, such as living room (whilst watching TV) etc.

@patrickpaganini 2 года назад

Yes I've been looking for that too. It might be worth trying HA in conjunction with node-red since it seems to have more support for this kind of thing at the moment.

@Dennis-qm4rd 2 года назад

Amazing project, never heard of it before! Curious about a follow up, seeing you walking room by room with different devices (Watch, iOS, Android) to see how it really works. And maybe some suggestions or tips from followers for some creative automations as well! Almost pressing the "buy an esp32 for each and every room in the house" - button 🙈

@alexcruzfarmer2090 2 года назад

IOS, watchOS and even Android is a mess as they've got privacy protections for Bluetooth to avoid tracking, so that sucks :(

@migo040 2 года назад

@@alexcruzfarmer2090 Just started using the BLE emitter from the HA companion app and turned the power to high. Seems to be working better but not sure how itll effect my battery

@alexcruzfarmer2090 2 года назад

@@migo040 awesome. It’s a bit hit and miss if I’m running it since I use the Home app :(.

@iBeechus 2 года назад

Great video. I’ve set 3 up, and now need to buy more to fill out the rest of the house. “No one in this room for 5 minutes, turn off lights and devices”

@iliasaitidis6322 2 года назад

I tired ESPrecense on 3 ESP32 in my house just before the end of the 2021. After trailing them out for a week or so I ended up disconnecting them as the performance was all over the place. Also, it was extremely tricky to single out my apple watch from all the beacons recognised. In terms of reaction the location would not update as quick as one would expect e.g. as soon as you walk into the room. I connected a PIR sensor on one of the ESP32 devices and it would still get a few good seconds before it would locate me in the room. I had 2 devices on the ground floor and one on the second floor. You could see my location randomly jumping from ground to 2nd floor which is really disappointing. I understand when the location is jumping between two neighbouring rooms not two flights of stairs.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Yeah I did mention speed right at the start of the video. 😜

@MrFateTube 2 года назад

you probably need to place it in a way, that there is always at least one sensor in a line of sight, so at least one of the sensors is getting a clean low noise info about your location, and all the others would just help you understand where exactly near that sensor you are.

@iliasaitidis6322 2 года назад

@@MrFateTube that’s where I was disappointed with the results. I was 1-2 meters from one of the ESPs in one room and I could see the presence jumping two floors 😳. How??? 🤷🏻

@AlfredoMannina 2 года назад

Fantastic Job, it works very well for me, thanks

@dretwav 2 года назад

I am glad that this works for you. It seems very unreliable in my usage. I have it tracking my phone, my watch (both Apple) and two Tiles. Even though they are all on my person they show either different rooms or not_home. The phone seems the most consistent but I can have it in my pocket about two feet from the office ESP and over the course of an hour it will show not_home for 40% of the time. Are there any setting you changed other than the obvious maximum distance.

@dgillings 2 года назад

I have the very same problem. The polling of the distance seems VERY slow (running HA on a raspberry pi 4) I've added 4 devices (as I couldn't find the MAC of the apple devices - so just added them all with unique names to work out which was which) and the locations vary from 1-4 metres even when all the devices are together

@SignedForFun 2 года назад

Thanks a lot Lewis for the video. I would love to see a follow up video on how to use this in automations. Here is what i want to use it for. I have a 5 months old baby often sleeping in baby stroller. and we will take him to different rooms for sleep. Now, i have a input boolean (baby sleeping) and input select where the values are the rooms that the baby is sleeping. Then my announce script via alexa will not play notification in the room that the baby is currently sleeping. So, currently i have to select every time where the baby stroller is, which is annoying and we sometimes forget to do that. I was thinking to hook up a bluetooth to the stoller (like a watch) and use ESPresense to change the value of the input select automatically. Should work.

@rob1971 2 года назад

Another great video Lewis, clear and easy to understand as always 🙂 Tempted to order a 3-pack of ESP32s and give this a go... I'll just need to remember to always have a suitable Bluetooth device on me then 😉

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Definitely worth a go 😅

@AngloYorkshire 2 года назад

Please do some automations using this like turning off the lights when you leave the room. Will be most helpful. Thanks

@Jonahmeans1024 2 года назад

Hi, Lewis, thanks for making this video about ESPresence. Have you tried comparing this to ESPhome's ble presence? I heard very good reviews about ESPresence but I'd prefer using the ESP home since it's so customisable and you can use the same esp to track other sensors or use it's GPIOs as you please.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

ESPHome isn't (to my knowledge) quite as advanced or customizable as this (at least wasn't the last time I tried it) - and yes I would love to see them merged also

@Jonahmeans1024 2 года назад

@@EverythingSmartHome I see they (ESPresence) added support for some sensors (TH, PIR and a few others) but it's pity they don't take advantage of ESP home since it's got an integration for almost any sensor. What I'm trying to do is limit the amount of radio in my house...so the fewer ESPs that do multiple jobs the better... it's already quite crowded and I've just started this home automation journey 😅

@EsotericArctos 2 года назад

@@Jonahmeans1024 There are multiple different ways of getting firmware onto an ESP. ESPHome is only one way of doing it. Premade devices and premade firmwares are perfectly fine. You can even write your own in the Arduino IDE. With the right coding, you could add lines to integrate these into ESPHome if you wanted to. The ESP Chip still runs the same codes regardless of what programming tool did it :)

@Jonahmeans1024 2 года назад

@@EsotericArctos Thanks for the reply. You are totally right and that's the beauty of foss. I'm not a coder so the least I could help with would be a feature request and some feedback.

@EsotericArctos 2 года назад

@@Jonahmeans1024 Feedback that is genuine is one of the best ways to help sometimes

@dharmilr 2 года назад

Amazing ! Just what I needed ! Thanks a ton

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Glad it helped!

@dharmilr 2 года назад

@@EverythingSmartHome first of all . thank you once again coz it will make my life much easier. so I got things working and I set up my iPhone X with it. after I leave the room and once the connection is lost , it doesn't connect to the phones bluetooth again when I re enter the room , only when I restart the device or reset the bluetooth on my iPhone , the connection is re-established . Also I tried to set up my wife's phone as well ( same model- IphoneX ) but the device ID is exactly the same and now the esp senses both our distances and cannot differentiate . HELP!!

@christopherellis2273 2 года назад

This is exactly the video I was looking for after your Q&A video talking about your lights coming on automatically. I really wish this was integrated into ESPHome too because it would be nice to wire a cheap PIR sensor into the ESP32s as well to trigger the lights to come on with the sensor and keep them on with ESPresence.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Yeah I agree it seems they are trying to incorporate sensors into ESPresense which I can would be beneficial but seems like reinventing the wheel - that's why ESPHome would be great with this

@Dennis-qm4rd 2 года назад

@@EverythingSmartHome Any idea if they plan to integratie within ESP Home? This would mean much more enthusiastic users I guess...

@TheBurnsiela 2 года назад

Bringing it into ESPHome and a Sonoff light switch is an amazing idea! Who do we lobby to make this happen?!!

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Haha lobby everyone!!

@pokeysplace 2 года назад

This looks to be a much cleaner solution to what I but together last year with ESPHome's ble_rssi platform and a bunch of Node Red flows to compare the signal levels.

@BBalasa 2 года назад

Nicely presented , this is my default channel for HA. Thanks a ton , i am on it now….

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Too kind 🙏

@MarcoGT 2 года назад

Thanks, for this video, wonderful; but I think I missed the part where the binary sensor shall be put into the config

@JamieVids76 2 года назад

This looks awesome, unfortunately I would want to track Garmin watches which doesn't look possible :(

@stephenjohnston8460 Месяц назад

This is very cool, I really like the idea of room detection and I have a number of Shelly motion sensors around the house. I live on my own, so I had the idea, instead of buying a smart watch and waring it all the time, I created an input boolean helper for each room, then say if I walk into the living room, the sensor picked up motion and turned the living room helper on. That helper then stays on while I am in the living room, If I move into the hallway, it turns on the hallway helper then turns off the living room helper, then move into the kitchen and it turns on the kitchen helper. From there I did cool things. For example I have 2 tv's one in the living room and one in the kitchen. I used to say Alexa turn on living room tv or Alexa turn on kitchen TV, Now I wrote a script that depending on which helper is on I can now just say Alexa turn on the TV. Now it only turns on the TV in the room I am in! This works well for my scenario, but yours would work well if you have multiple people in the house. My one question and this stopped me from doing it your way is: I have a long narrow hallway, is it difficult to get the sensor to just track you in the hallway only and not overlap the other rooms?

@bryceyorkpm 8 месяцев назад

If anyone else has the same issue, my ESP32 device failed to connect to the MQTT broker. After a bunch of trial and error, switching the MQTT broker's hostname in the esp32 device's config to be the static IP of my home assistant instead of core-mosquitto did the trick!

@pwillemsen1000 2 года назад

I’m waiting for the Aqara Presence Detector FP1 RTCZCGQ11LM which uses microwave technology for presence detection. Perfect for living room and/or bedroom. And doesn’t require me to have a phone or smartwatch on any person. Currently it is not yet available outside China

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

You and me both!

@jewellerymadebyhand 2 года назад

FP1 does not detect who it is

@kevingoyvaerts4491 2 года назад

Just installed ESPresense on 3 ESP But my Fitbit Sense is not seen when connected to the smartphone which is always the case :/ How did you make it work for the charge ?

@kevinreedmiller 2 года назад

Thank you so much for this. I have a box of ESP32s waiting for a project and this is it! A follow up on suggestions re automations would be much appreciated. Keep up the good work. Thanks again.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Thank you man, have fun!

@JacobDanielson 2 года назад

This looks like a pretty good project! Not sure if you tested/looked into it, but is it best to try and place this centrally in the room or would it not really matter? I'd definitely be interested in a video going into some of the potential uses in automations for this!

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

I would imagine that if it's possible then that would be best but not always practical for everyone!

@MrMoo272 2 года назад

@@EverythingSmartHome Do multiple ESP modules track your Bluetooth device at the same time? if so you would only need a few modules placed strategically around the house to triangulate your position pretty accurately. Obviously, it would take some working out but that's what we're here for, right?

@cobusbenade3502 2 года назад

Absolutely awesome video! Also so glad there is a option for iOS devices. Tried a ton of options and was terrible for apple based devices. Also support the idea to merge with ESPHome. Have a couple of motion sensors already part of my ESP32s. So would also make sense for me. Keep up the great work!

@Kiloptero Год назад

There is a way to accelerate the refresh from the iPhone.. is a little slow:(

@ModMINI Год назад

my iPhone is showing a different MAC address inside the device from in the espresence logs. Do iPhone rotate the MAC address for bluetooth? I know they do this for WiFi.

@coin777 2 года назад

7:30 Why do You make write this Lewis? Cant You write this in description for me to copy?

@HowardPrice 2 года назад

Awesome video! I’ve played around with things like Room Assistant before, never with much success. I’d love to see another video on the applications of this tech. Always looking out for ideas. Now I need to go watch your videos on general presence detection as I’ve had little success with that either, after having spent weeks trying to get the Monitor project to work for me.

@ChunkySteveo 2 года назад

Any good Ali/Amazon/eBay links for compatible BLE beacons/tiles that work with this?

@erwinsanders407 2 года назад

Great video The only part which I have problems is the detecting the android phone it looks that the get a new ID all the time

@TheSlowestZombie 2 года назад

I've tried this out and got 3 of the ESP32 WROOMs linked in the description. Two of them, after flashing them a second time (2.0.17) while troubleshooting wifi connections, no longer load. The third one was working and connected to mqtt for a few minutes, but while mapping out the bluetooth mac addresses it got stuck in a reboot loop. I want this to succeed very much, but it feels like it's just not quite there.

@DIYtechie 2 года назад

Very cool project and great video. I already bought some ESP32 and have been playing around with ESPHome ble tracking without much luck. My impression was that it failed because iPhones, AirTags and the latest Tiles (what I have available) use bluetooth MAC address randomisation to prevent everyone else from tracking you over time and space. If someone with malicious intent were to enter your fitbit MAC address, they would be able to track you around the world, albeit only in places with hackable computers and other hardware using BLE.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

There is an option inside of ESPresense to help with the randomisation!

@jasonwarm3188 2 года назад

@@EverythingSmartHome I wish there was a better explanation of what this was. My house is full of Apple devices, could not reliably track my Apple Watch at all. The page lists using "continuity footprints" but no where is there a practical discussion of HOW to use them.

@kimberlyjacobsen4148 Год назад

Looks like the precision is good enough for detecting if a door is open 🤔

@My427Cobra 2 года назад

Great video. When will you be posting the follow up on how you use ESPresense in your implementation?

@tonyyeung821 2 года назад

Thanks for this video. I was eager to try this out, since I wear my Fitbit Charge 4 all the time. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work with that device. The watch doesn't seem to regularly broadcast.

@tonyyeung821 2 года назад

After further testing, the watch stops broadcasting if the device it is paired with is nearby.

@michaelrch Год назад

It looks like they moved the install link to /firmware

@mbp5863 Год назад

I have 2 esp32s and they're running great. When my BT watch gets closest to one of the ESP32s it changes the state of the BT watch to that room, I can see it does this in the "developer tools" tab. Problem is, I can't use that state for anything. When I add an automation I can't add a trigger, which triggers when the BT watch is in one of the states. I'm I doing the automation the wrong way, or do I need to change some config? I can't seem to figure it out. Hope you know what to do:)

@dodgecrickets7862 2 года назад

How do you get your lights to turn on and off so quickly.. thst is crazy 😳

@chemicalstorm 2 года назад

Any Idea how u would output what room the watch or other device is into a card. Also can you add this as a device for a person. The idea is I wanna know what room my dog is in so I can open the garage.

@markvroman507 2 года назад

So on a esp board only one thing be added? If it would be able to use it with sonoff or WLED would be nice, because installing 2 or esp chips per room, is crazy, 😂😎

@markvk42 2 года назад

Ive just found your channel, because im thinking of moving away from Hubitat to HA. I watched this and my jaw dropped... Individual room presence!! tied in with motion sensors, finally sorts out the pet issues with turning on lights! IF I CAN GET IT TO WORK! awesome work, thanks.

@cosimopanoni5356 Год назад

Thank you for the great video! What is the state displayed when I am not home, so when the device is far from the esp32? I thought about using this with only 1 esp32 to track when I come back home and I am in front of the main door, but I would need a state change to trigger an automation. Any thoughts? Thank you in advance!

@SBinVancouver Год назад

ESPresence is now at 3.1.0, the UI has changed quite a bit.

@Madeyalookdomoz 2 года назад

Any idea how to configure the supported sensors in espresense?

@CrazyAngelfire 3 месяца назад

is there a updated video to this as i just get stuck tring to get home assistant to discover the device

@antonburdin9756 2 года назад

Hi, Thank you for the video. Could you please show us how this software could run on existing ESP 32 devices? Will it interfere with their normal operation? Could we use ESP 32 lighting fixtures (like Yeelight, it is always powered thanks to FlexSwitch), to run such software?

@joejoe6949 2 года назад

I finally got it working but for some reason its slow and also hit and miss. I notice it dose not update the Distance in real time some time in two minutes or ten. Is the Apple Watch not a good beacon ?

@joshleonard6421 Год назад

I'm not super familiar with HomeAssistant but is there an option to dump the distance into a log once per refresh rather than triggering a smart home device?

@enciclopediasistemica Год назад

Hey! Great video! I want to know if this can be a good solution for an hotel. Let me explain: I have an hotel in Mexico, a Motel, better said. In Mexico, people rents a motel room for about 4-6 hours to have intercourse. Well, this is my situation: in order to be with my family, I do not live in the city where the motel is. I suspect that my employees don´t report truly how many people enter by day, and I don´t want to get cameras installed because in Mexico, having cameras in a motel is seen by clients as a privacy vulneration. So what I need is this: I want to install a system that let me know, in real time and at long distance, if a room is occupied but without vulnerating my client´s privacy, so I can more easly know how accurate are my employee´s reports. I would like a sistem so I could install sensors in the rooms (presence or movement sensors, weight sensors for the beds, etc.), and I could see in real time if a room is occupied or not in that moment. Much better if I can get a report about how many times and how much time a room was occupied in the day. Do you think this is possible? Please let me know. It can help me a lot. Thanks in advance!

@biosim5 9 месяцев назад

I'm already have everything set up, but i'm having dificulties on how to make automations with the trackers. Can we do it?

@Art_Gonzales Год назад

Got a wide home. Having issue with the range of ble and zigbee devices from my raspberry pi

@kreene1987 2 года назад

Interesting. The perk of room-assistant is the auto-detection (phone doesn't have to be "on", etc.). I've had really good luck with it so far, but always willing to give something "new" a try!

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

Be interested to hear your results;

@MzumOritz 2 года назад

Hi! Thanks for your video. Have you explained how to set up your motion light automations in one of your videos yet? Yours appear to be very on point for both directions, while my setup (ikea motion sensor) has an updating cycle of about 3 minutes and is not very reliable. Thanks!

@haozong7400 2 года назад

need help in tracking devices using randomized mac. for instance, galaxy watch 4

@PuckStar 2 года назад

Can anyone recommend a good BLE wireless beacon (available in Europe)?

@vaspro 2 года назад

Great project. However I can't configure it with my Samsung galaxy phone due to the mac address randomization. Is there any way of turning it off ? I would get different mac address every time I activate my phone

@DeclanGreen 2 года назад

My ID column doesn't show a number, just a name for my Samsung Galaxy Watch ID: name:galaxy-watch4-grxz. What would I copy into my configuration.yaml file here?

@CraigMullins1 2 года назад

Is there a way to save all those beacons from bluetooth, wifi's and phones IMEI info so I know who comes on my property?

@Amodillo 21 день назад

Copied this step by step. But for some unknown reason my devices are showing as "not_home" on the states page instead of showing the closest sensor. How do I fix this?

@sarcasticfpv3862 11 месяцев назад

Hi, as I have started to follow your vids I may not know about it but would it be possible to combine the presence in certain room with some multiroom audio ? I have only now started with the research of the possible approaches and there is one done in combination with esp32 which already have 3.5mm jacks and then work together with a logitech media server

@erbmur 2 года назад

This is a great video! I have set it up but I seem to have issues detecting my mobiles. it doesn't seem to detect either mine or my wife's android phone. Doesn't detect my watch either. Picks up some apple devices though

@pedromtgomes 2 года назад

also with the same problem. Android phone & Gear 3 don't show up and cant get the id's

@erbmur 2 года назад

@@pedromtgomes I actually managed to sort this out. Found an option in the Home Assistant companion app that activates an iBeacon that can be detected

@pedromtgomes 2 года назад

@@erbmur care to share?

@erbmur 2 года назад

@@pedromtgomes In the companion app, go to manage sensors, enable Bluetooth BLE from there and that should be good to go. you can adjust power levels if you are having difficulty picking it up

@stijnmoke6184 2 месяца назад

Is there already a follow up for this 2 year old video? Or still the way to go? I saw another video using esphome. Not sure which one to follow

@stijnmoke6184 19 дней назад

Still wondering which way to go Espresence or ESPhome or Bermuda BLE

@moeburn Год назад

How did you get this to work with your Fitbit? Everything I have read says the Fitbit stops being a BLE beacon as soon as it's paired to your smartphone, and then it will only talk to your phone and nothing else. And using your phone as a beacon doesn't work either, it only works when you have the bluetooth menu open on the phone.

@CrankyCoder 2 года назад

any experience with apple watch? Do you know the best way to go about tracking multiple devices to a person? watch + phone? does the room you are in update to the latest reported? If i leave my phone in a room charging and walk around the house, how often would the room the phone is in update and trigger im back in there? I have a few esp32's sitting here im gonna load this up with.

@joejoe6949 2 года назад

Omg I been waiting for room presence ever since smart homes been a thing. I been waiting to see if apple would use the uwd chip on the homepod but we are talking about apple it be 20 years before they do something smart like that. And I have two of those the 32 chip laying not needing what to do with.

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

It's the future!

@dennisgaida 2 года назад

How do you power the ESP32s in the different rooms? Dangling from some USB chargers? Battery powered?

@johanreji Год назад

1 question... It is better the keep the esp at the middle of the room preferably at the ceiling so as to not be in the way... So what can we do if we got a 2 story house... The BLE client gets recognised by the esp which is in the room below that is attached to the ceiling... So what is the work around for this?

@GarNelson1 8 дней назад

Can I ask a complete neophyte question? My HA uses ZHA. Will installing the MQTT component for this cause me any ZHA issues?

@paulbacon5056 Год назад

I added my galaxy watch to be tracked but if i leave home ot still reports being in my office for 8 hours. Even when im moving around the house in different rooms its still reported in the office. Other devices like phones work to a degree but still very flaky.

@TheSirSpence 2 года назад

I love this idea. I have two young kids and wonder what devices I could get them to use. I won't let them have mobiles. 🤔🤔

@AsyrafAkira 11 месяцев назад

Is it possible to use same esp module to function as both Bluetooth tracker and nfc scanner?

@vav17NL 2 года назад

Hi Lewis? Is there an easy way to power these ESPs with some kind of battery? I don't think it's worth it to sacrifice an outlet in every single room for this.

@GagliardiPhotography 2 года назад

I'd like to see some practical examples about this project! Great video, as usual!

@kbxbr 2 года назад

I think ESPHome has a presence / RSSI signal / etc but i liked how ESPresense changes values of position for each device on HomeAssistant! Hope those projects merges because at esphome there's no need for MQTT configuration and we can use ESP32 chips for other functions at the same time

@EverythingSmartHome 2 года назад

It does but not as advanced as ESPresense like you say, would love to see them merged

@GoodDeal123 Год назад

Absolutely agree. Great project and would love to try, but I won't for the moment as I my system works perfectly with many ESPHome devices over wifi. I would literally have to set up MQTT only for ESPresence. Very much hoping for the merge or a version that allows both mqqt and tcp.

@samratmore 3 месяца назад

Those are updating Esprensense with version v3.x.x, note that "Send to rooms topic" will be deprecated. Change state_topic: "espresense/rooms" to state_topic: "devices/johns_iphone" so you will not get "not_home" in topics while checking sensor in developer tools. Instead you will see correct room name which you set, for instance bedroom.

@MiketenWolde 5 месяцев назад

Thank you for all the good content! There is now an HA integration, which makes it possible to do bluetooth proxy device tracking in combination with ESPhome. It is called ‘Bermude BLE’. Would you be so kind to make a tutorial about it?

@antoniodecrisci2369 2 года назад

Aweseome video but for the life of me, I cannont seem to get my Wear OS watch to show up on the ESP32 scan list. I know what the MAC address is of my watch (using nRF connect as a bonded device and its tells me in watch settings), during scan and log mode, the ESP32 sees many other MAC addresses but my watch, which is within 2 ft of ESP32 does NOT show up with the MAC address. I've also turned off the BT on my phone so it cannot connect to it. I'm a doing something wrong or does it not work with Wear OS watches? Is the MAC different? any help would be greatly appreciated!

@Johnsormani Месяц назад

In 2013 or so Apple introduced iBeacon, which was pretty cool. I still have a dev kit somewhere. It sort of died but I would like to know if ESPresense is built from scratch or if it uses the Apple technology, because that really worked pretty good

@luispichardo374 Год назад

I currently have a few ESP-32s set up as bluetooth proxies using ESPHome. Would using ESP Presence create a bluetooth proxy as well essentially using the same ESPs to do both the proxy AND presence detection or would I need new ESPs?

@SBinVancouver Год назад

Yes please! I'd like to see examples of automations using this, with MQTT. Also, the espresence/install page is /firmware now.

@bryceyorkpm 8 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@finereplicawatch 2 года назад

Hi. I setup the espresense project using 5 esp32-wroom-32u devices. The result is disappointed. Devices after flash have very very weak WiFi signal. Secondly most of the times does not recognise my Garmin watch or my mobile. And if it is recognised (very few times) it is extremely slow. I have the same issue with all 5 esp32 devices. Any idea what causes my issue?

@fitybux4664 2 года назад

Smart switches with built-in ESP32s are one way to get ESP32s around your house. Another way is plug-in ESP32 switches. This needs to be integrated into Tasmota. Not sure who uses ESPHome.

@kraydy1291 11 месяцев назад

Hi there, Does anyone know if I can use the very same ESP32 running ESPresence additionally for something else like reading a temperature, humidity or binary sensor? Thank you in advance!

@santiagolorianava3107 Год назад

Hi. Great video. Im having a problem. Apple id goes something like this Apple:10-4 but this id is constatly changing. Is there a way to solve this?

@smoitry 2 года назад

This method sounds amazing, but one basic question : are really all your family members wearing a bluetooth device 24/7 at home? Including when walking along the house at the middle of the night? Including the little boy aged of 8y/o?

@joelrybacki2603 2 года назад

Can't seem to get this working. Every device is always not_home. I'm guessing that my HA instance requires SSL and ESPPresence documentation states it does not support SSL?

@hugovannieuwpoort6969 7 месяцев назад

Is it possible to add this create ESPHome ESPPresense feature also to your "Everything Presence One" and "Everything Presence Lite" sensors?

@hertzz1 2 года назад

This solution is not reliable. My ESP32 keep crashing plus, wheren it is not down it does not find the BLE conneections. I had really high expectations, it seems this need more working.

@redlingg Год назад

Hello How accurate is this?? I have problems with my Galaxy watch 3...Sometimes it says not home, but the watch is there or if it leaves the room, it is still home... Is it the problem with the watch it self? Phone is the same or even worse. Cannot track android hone... :(