Tutorial version: 0.2 Goal: Presence detection hardware: Tile Pro website: thetileapp (dot) com App: Beacon (credits Leendert De Kok ) App topic :HERE
It’s hard to find a good solutions for presence, after testing with wifi connections and z-wave/kaku remotes i tried it with bluetooth beacon on a keychain. The result is working perfectly.
Install the beacon app (appstore).
Buy a beacon (i use a Tile Pro (2 devices for 60 euro, deliverd in the netherlands within 24hours ;-).
Add the beacon to homey: result
name it to a person and add it to the keychain of this person.
Now you can make a flow when this beacon is in range of homey to set a variable (presence of a person yes/no) (better logic) to yes.
There is a lot to love here. Replaceable battery. Slim dimensions (42x42x6,5mm). Attach it to your keys and then you can just move on with your life.
And a mentioned range of 90m.
Can you confirm this range? When homey is inside a residence and you approaching around the corner, what is a realistic range in a urban setting?
Is it possible to connect/add more receivers besides Homey? I can imagine that way it would be possible to use the presence of certain beacons in certain areas of a building.
Those you mentioned in an earlier post are the same modules, except the keychain is not included. The plastic is really cheap, if you press the button on it it can already crack, You also should glue them shut (replace the housing or just throw them away when empty), when the housing pops open, the module will drop out
You sure can use multiple homeys, place them at the outer edges of your property and voila!
But multiple bluetooth LE devices (all none expensive ones) that can receive and transmit signals of other bluetooth LE devices when they are in proximity of each other? Sounds to me like a Tile business plan you are describing there.
Nevertheless, it can think -for presence detection with homey- it can be useful to be able to expand the range of those 5 or 8m.
Can this app -Beacon- use those devices in conjunction with eachother?
Ive just purchased a Tile Mate. Managed to pair it with the app - this is great! But is it supposed to be marked "detected: No" even though its only a couple of meters away from Homey? It does, however, trigger detection when I`ve left the house and arrives back home.
Hello, i have the same problem, i download the tile app activated the tile pro, and then pair it with homey. Now its detected when i hide the tile in the app, but undetected when i open the app and make it visible.
For sure i’m doing something wrong.
Thanks for the reply. I have removed it and added it again. It still disappears after a while. If I push the button on the tile it appears again. Probably something I am doing wrong.
