Hi Albert, no worries.
I understand the Ble stack of Homey is not perfect (yet), and connections get dropped at random. That makes, in this case, the beacon(s) somehow getting marked as ‘away’.
I use a Chronograph timer in between now. The timer’s time should be higher than the time between the typical faulty ‘away’ and ‘home’ status changes. For me, 2 minutes was sufficient.
When…
beacon X status = away
Then…
start or replace timer Y with a duration of x minutes
When…
timer Y has finished
And…
beacon X status = away
Then…
(presence) mark Person X (beacon X) as away
Hey Peter,
finally, I found time to answer: thank you so much for your both quick and especially very kind response!
It’s really helpful while logical, although I didn’t tried out yet. But this is what I’ll do next, maybe in combination with a higher verification amount outside range. I figured out in the meantime, that 15 times seems to be the best - just at the moment.
Since I’ve been a (still proud ) owner of a Homey Pro (early 2019) I’m regularly excited about this huge community of Homey users. In my opinion, one of the strengths of Homey, among others.
But nevertheless: at this point, I can absolutely agree with @NoX comments about Homey’s usability und Athom’s policy: Beacon - An app for presence detection using BLE beacons - #608 by NoX
I invested 399 € as well in this futuristic “wonderball”, and for that, we can expect a stable system with it’s general functions. Herefore belongs e.g. the Bluetooth connectivity in general. (By the way, even my wife told me some days ago, I should not spend more time in configurating our smart home as it will save us in the end:grimacing:)
But I don’t want to start a new discussion about it though, that’s not the right place for it.
Just to clarify and intensify the awareness, I think about reporting one more issue for that to Athom.
Greets
Albert
I just bought an Apple Airtag and installed Beacon. I have tried 10 times now to create a new device (iBeacon) without any success. It says no new devices are found. Is this app not compatible with Airtags?
Thank you for clarifying this! Short answer then is that I jumped on the wrong horse ha ha (I was sure Airtag would work, so I didn’t really check)… Well, any suggestions for best beacon (will only be used for Home/Away presence) in respect to size and price (and battery life)?
Added preliminary support for ManagerBLE. Note: BLECharacteristic.subscribeToNotifications is not yet available. Note: disconnect events are not yet sent to the app.
I have exactly the same issue, I connected my 3 beacons (2x tile, 1x Ali-express), using those for years already on Homey Pro 2019 (and 2016), but they won’t get detected at all:
Tile Mate (2022) no way of connecting it to Homey.
Gigaset Keeper, easily connected
Will return both of them. The first one for obvious reasons the 2nd one because it disconnects after 5 mins. No way I can use it for presence detection