![]() ![]() Where other room-level presence detectors fail Before buying a similar device, I suggest you do a quick search in your favourite search engine to find out whether someone else has tried to use the tracker you want with room-assistant. These have the added bonus of not just acting as iBeacons, but also as key finders. If you already own one of these, you are in luck. Other commercially available tracker, such as the Tile and Nut, have been confirmed to be working with room-assistant. Luckily though, this issue was troubling the developer too, and there now is a small companion app that allows you to track your iOS and iPadOS devices in room-assistant using BLE. ![]() Because Apple opts to randomize the BLE address for privacy reasons, there was no easy way of tracking iPhones and iPads out of the box. Until recently, this left iPhone users in a bit of a conundrum. With BLE, you will also experience faster response times and more stability, partially due to the decreased interference. While there are ways of lessening the interference between Wi-Fi and Zigbee, bringing a third player in to the game would unnecessarily complicate things. That's the same band that Wi-Fi and Zigbee use. The problem with Bluetooth (or Bluetooth Classic, as it is referred to in the documentation), is that it uses the 2.4 GHz band. Good question, and one that is easily answered: Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) all the way. Should I Bluetooth or Bluetooth Low Energy for room-assistant? When the individual instances work together, they can triangulate your position based on the signal strengths, and in return tell Home Assistant where exactly you are. They allow you to run multiple room-assistant instanced on the same network, and have them come together as a cluster. room-assistant clustersĬlusters are room-assistant's secret weapon, for it is them that allow the application to track on a room by room basis. So if you are already running Home Assistant OS on a Raspberry Pi, you might as well make use of its available radios. ![]() There is also a room-assistant add-on available for Home Assistant. ![]()
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