I put this in EVERY room! Smart room detection 😲

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I put ESPresense around my entire house! Now I can automate based on what room I'm in with my Apple Watch.
ESP32: amzn.to/43WGEjE
3D printed case for the 30 pin version: www.thingiverse.com/thing:517...
Micro USB cables (that transfer data): amzn.to/3qH83rv
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Everything Smart Home tutorial: • The BEST Smart Home Ro...
Install Espresense: espresense.com/firmware
If it says the WiFi doesn't connect, it might be a current bug so look for the device on your network and go to the IP address. Should be fine.
Connect the ESP device to Home Assistant: espresense.com/configuration/...
Update Use the IRK for Apple devices. Yes it can work without it but the IRK method is way more accurate.
For Apple watch: espresense.com/beacons/apple
For iPhone: community.home-assistant.io/t...
Then create a sensor in Home Assistant with the Bluetooth ID: espresense.com/home_assistant
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@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

**Update** I used this to automate my smart thermostat: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/q56HhX6qpX2Qt2g.html Tip: use the IRK for Apple devices. Yes it can work without it but the IRK method is way more accurate. For Apple watch: espresense.com/beacons/apple For iPhone: community.home-assistant.io/t/espresense-device-id-how-to-get-them/403018/15

@Kiloptero 10 місяців тому

How long is the delay? Without irk there is maybe a 5seg delay.. The irk is not working for me..

@nics8040 9 місяців тому

I had a hard time with this a few months back. My Apple Watch kept changing Bluetooth id names. Did they fix that?

@papafrank7094 3 місяці тому

Have you adapted this device to have your audio follow you from room to room?

@roodynewbie8122 10 місяців тому

Love this channel. I've been learning and playing with esp32's for a few weeks now. Definitely something everyone should look into.

@rickyjones6984 10 місяців тому

Hey, been watching your videos for many years now, you have helped me and my wife with some simple things we’ve done in our home, but I have a very interesting twist that might also help create content for your channels. I am totally blind and trying to create a blind friendly, smart home. Would love it if we could connect and speak more about it.

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

Hey Ricky thanks for watching over the years! That is an interesting twist and that would be great to connect. Hit me up on email.

@gregmcullen 10 місяців тому

We put an ESPresense in each room, and a tile tracker on both our cats. Added some fun automations like if an extrior door is open for too long, the assistant speakers will announce their last location. Took a bit of time to figure out the right settings, but its been great!

@DustyAf 10 місяців тому

Did you use an AirTag?

@Jon17Jon17 10 місяців тому

@@DustyAfhe used a Tile (it’s like an AirTag)

@ThisSmartHouse 10 місяців тому

I used to use ESPresense a lot, but recently it just can’t handle the amount of BLE devices in my neighborhood. Even when upgrading to ESP32s with more memory, I get reboot loops from it crashing. I just got some more of the ROVERs that have more memory on board, and I hope that will help. I love the project and miss having detection in my office.

@petertaylor7134 10 місяців тому

Thanks for reminding me to give these another go. Stuck them all over more than a year ago but never bothered to tweek the absortion. Working really good with my galaxy watch 4 and HA app.

@domesticautomationllc 10 місяців тому

Thank you Reed, I'm gonna work on this over the weekend.

@_j_j 10 місяців тому

Ali Xpress has inexpensive ble tags. I affixed one to each of my bins and have an esp in the garage that picks them up. Reminds me if I forget to put them out, get the recycling fortnights mixed up or forget to bring them in. There's also a build you can add extra sensors so you can measure light in the room, temps etc. With the same device

@Reza1984_ 9 місяців тому

If you don't mind, what's the build for extra plugins like light sensors? Thanks

@shaneroachford892 10 місяців тому

This is great. Definitely will try it out. What recommendations to keep it powered on?

@waynerowe8477 10 місяців тому

New to the field. Thought about getting the new aqara presence but would love an alternative. I’m on HomeKit, wondering could this be done on homebridge? is there a millimeter solution for HomeKit/homebridge that you know of?

@gebsystems 5 місяців тому

How do you keep them boards up and running for long period of time? I found the ESP not to be that reliable over wifi. What is your experience? Did you apply any fancy changes / settings?

@AtlantaTerry 7 місяців тому

What about setting off an alarm when the presence of an *unknown* Bluetooth device is detected? What if an intruder is creeping around your ground floor windows or the patio door? You could set the range to a meter or so and it would alert you that someone is looking in or actually breaking in. Add a mm wave detector to increase the odds on your side (in case the intruder does not have any BT device on them).

@StevoDesign 5 місяців тому

Just make sure you never have friends over or anyone watching your house lol

@chronometer9931 4 місяці тому

If they are supposed to be there then you just ignore the alerts. It sounds like a nice addition to security@@StevoDesign

@bartbrueck 8 місяців тому

How do we get the dashboard sensor to show the Distance to the Room its connected to? I am only able to show what Area my Apple watch is connected to, but not able to find a way to show distance?

@JimVanderveen 9 місяців тому

Does this work with multiple people/devices in the same room?

@prion2727 10 місяців тому

Where did you buy the cases? I went to the link, but nowhere to buy it from?

@NL-Chaos 9 місяців тому

Does it also work with other smart watches like my Garmin forerunner245 ? Its has Bluetooth connection to my phone? And do you have a video with the cheapest way to get(hardware)to run Home Assistant? Because raspberry pi's aren't available (sadly)

@DFragmentor 8 місяців тому

I may try this with our princess cruise medallion. Their medallion class ships have something like this where you can use their app and find your family anywhere on the ship! It will even guide you to them google maps style.

@AntonKrall 7 місяців тому

Reed, the HA cards you show on your video, can you explain more about them?

@culbme 10 місяців тому

Now that you have done that, you need to do the companion. Draw your home and watch items move around. Really cool to put a sensor on the dog and watch them move around the house during the day.

@JesseNkemka 10 місяців тому

Great video as always, Reed! Although, I'm curious... Are you planning to use the ESPresence in conjunction WITH the Aqara FP2s? I'm setting up my FP2s now, and your ESPresence videos now has me thinking of running both!

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

Thanks! ESPresense will be an extra layer of customization for automations on top of using mmWave with the FP2.

@JesseNkemka 10 місяців тому

@@reedssmarthome nice, that makes perfect sense! Thanks for the reply, man, and looking forward to seeing how you tie everything together!

@jamesmonahan7872 10 місяців тому

Thank you for sharing. Not sure if I want to take on this but do appreciate that I could if I wanted to. Motion sensors are working fine for now but we will see what future brings

@Nick_1976 10 місяців тому

Hi Reed, Can you please give a couple examples of automations. Possibly where two or more people in a room and one of more leave but light stays on until room is empty. Thanks mate.

@funnyfunny6842 4 місяці тому

This might have been asked, but where can I purchase the cases for the ESP32's?

@GyulaHorvathGarijin 8 місяців тому

Try using Wifi signal instead of bluetooth. By monitoring the relative signal strenght you get a pretty decent sensor.

@MadMike78 10 місяців тому

I just got the chips. Do you have a more detailed guide on setting it up?

@MarkGhali 10 місяців тому

yes want to see those setups for automations

@Kal-el23 7 місяців тому

Can this detect any Bluetooth device as opposed to registering a specific one?

@HygerProductions 9 місяців тому

Is there a way to get faster response? Or is it just something like BT beacon intervals

@MaxGoddur 9 місяців тому

Just throwing it out there. Currently, I'm using ESPhome and have installed motion sensors in various locations within my home, backyard, and garage. I have three ESP8266s running smoothly under HA/ESPhome, which effectively report back whenever motion is detected. My objective is to create a central ESP8266, to which all the motion sensors can communicate. I plan to attach a circuit board with LEDs to this central ESP8266, allowing the LEDs to illuminate based on the specific location where motion was detected around the home. Possible? Don't want to use Arduino solutions as I am only running Home Assistant and ESPhome.

@eugsmiley 10 місяців тому

Is there a way of doing room presence that doesn't involve MQTT?

@ScottCulberson 10 місяців тому

Could you use an apple tracker instead of an iphone or apple watch? Does this routine work for family members when your not home?

@EricGus67 8 місяців тому

Does anyone know if this can be used to just "sense" a BT device in a room indifferent of the address? im just more interested in knowing if a BT device is in a given room than to who or what its connected to, the reason being is one such BT device is a blood glucose transmitter, and that hardware address will change every time the transmitter expires and is replaced, so hard-coding a specific ID will only work for short periods of time.. why I was asking if its possible to just generically detect any BT device near by without needing a hardware address ..

@waynenocton 7 місяців тому

Completely new to these, and just realized I got ESP8266 instead of ESP32's, can these do the same thing? Did just order some also though.

@benwouda 9 місяців тому

What does it add? If it does not de Lights?

@jbrohard 7 місяців тому

I am very interested in exploring these, but what is the real cost for deploying these 'everywhere'? Each location will need an ESP, a case (not all of us can 3D print and those that can have filament costs), and a power supply. Looks to be ~$15 per location? Still do-able foe me who only wants ~5 or 6.

@samuelbernier9756 10 місяців тому

Hey, I love your videos so much. The only issue for me it is that the wifi on my ESP32 keeps deconnecting, so I can't complete the configuration😔 I don't know what to do🤣

@danielmpr 9 місяців тому

🤔 would it also work with Tile? Or other devices

@wrbrower 28 днів тому

This was genuinely helpful. I used ESP32 with Arduino with Bluetooth BLE iBeacon (BC021-MultiBeacon) for car detection.

@ronm6585 10 місяців тому

Cool! Thanks Reed.

@BELIEVEFILMSTUDIOS 10 місяців тому

is there any way to add a passcode protection to cards or pages in home assistant?

@grindfi 10 місяців тому

Hey reed, i have some espresence sensors too, but i seem to have neglected them, because i couldnt really figure out how to use the ibeacon tracking for automations, can you make a video on this?

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

Sure thing!

@TheNoim 10 місяців тому

It would be nice to be able to flash it on to an EP1.

@RyanDuffy 10 місяців тому

So you need to have MQTT up and running for this to work? Do you know a good I depth MQTT walk through? I’ve tried looking at it before but so much just doesn’t make sense.

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

Yes you need MQTT up and running. It's been a while since I set mine up but I think I watched Lewis ukposts.info/have/v-deo/nKGFomN-omqCxqM.html MQTT can be difficult to wrap my head around. Basically it's a protocol or a way for the machines to talk to each other.

@nmundra Місяць тому

Any chance you could post the yaml for the dashboard?

@televisi 10 місяців тому

Good video! Thanks I think I still prefer the mmwave consider you don't need BT attached to you all the time.

@meierthomas 10 місяців тому

Txs for yet another great video. Im just at the beginning of presence detection and have mmWave. I love the simplicity of this of only ot was quicker. Entering a room turn on the light won't work. Wonder why ot takes seconds to register. Secondly goven this is person specific how would you register tje whole family?

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

I appreciate it Thomas! The speed of it just comes with the nature of bluetooth and how often it communicates with the devices. You can register multiple devices. So I have my Apple watch, iPhone and my wife's iPhone. Then if someone is in the room and it doesn't have one of those I know it's my kids or Luna. Even though I might put on one Luna too.

@Waterbottle365 10 місяців тому

Reed- Doesn't the BT MAC change in Apple Watches? I thought that was an issue when I looked into doing this previously. Have you had any issues with it?

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

So far it hasn't been an issue. But if it ever does, there are guides to use the IRK number which I don't think changes. espresense.com/beacons/apple community.home-assistant.io/t/espresense-device-id-how-to-get-them/403018/15?u=gwp1

@Waterbottle365 10 місяців тому

@@reedssmarthome You're the coolest.

@RickyFish89 10 місяців тому

I'd love to set this up but the biggest issue I have is the looks.. Is there a case, cable, power combo that doesn't look so DIY? I'd love something as low-profile and 'one piece' as possible to look as though I just plugged a thing into the wall similar to a zigbee or zwave range extender, rather than a wall wart, usb cable, esp32.

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

I haven't tried these myself but another person commented about it shop.m5stack.com/products/atom-lite-esp32-development-kit seems like a good fit since it comes with case already and is really small.

@plinyelder8156 3 місяці тому

Which 3D printer do you use?

@spug68 10 місяців тому

So Reed, I know you synced or used your watch. Do you have to put every bluetooth device up to the unit to learn all the different people so it will know who is in the room?

@risshirajshah9593 10 місяців тому

Hey Reed, nice video. Like your bar stools..can you share make/model/purchase site info? Thanks.

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

Thanks, www.afw.com/bourbon-30-swivel-barstool-with-back

@wyx087 10 місяців тому

Possible to use ESPresense AND Home Assistant BLE Proxy on a single ESP32? How do you track your kids’ presence around the house? Kids that are too young to have electronic device of their own.

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

I'm not sure since when you flash Espresense it erases the board. Maybe there's a way that I don't know about though.

@FlorianGT396 10 місяців тому

I think we will see great progress in the near future. There is software and tech out there, that can do this kinda stuff waaaay better. If you connect all the sensors you can detect at what exact point in a room are.

@matthewclements9439 10 місяців тому

Do you plan on putting a Tile on Luna?

@bradleythorburn 9 місяців тому

I have a far out idea if this could be used to turn lights on etc, put one waterproof case out at the gate so it knows you are home and like activates lights etc for you getting in to the house?

@Builtbypete 10 місяців тому

Brilliant - thanks!

@JeffFromMichigan 10 місяців тому

How does this work across multiple floors? Will the max range help with vertical distance if I have a sensor in a room on a main floor and a different one in the room above it?

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

The max range will for sure help with that. I only have one story but there are also more settings to configure for Espresense to fine tune it even more. espresense.com/configuration/settings#calibration

@EdoDijkgraaf 10 місяців тому

I always thought ESPresense would be able to combine the data of multiple sensors. I wanted to use it as an add on to the alarm.

@abartos 8 місяців тому

It seemed to me, too, that it would be possible to use information from several sensors, and, for example, calculate with triangulation or triliteration additional information, and thus increase the precision and capabilities of the system.

@Cyba_IT 10 місяців тому

That's pretty cool but does it suck the watch battery?

@unlock-er 10 місяців тому

Nice one! Be good to add this to the current sensors that I've got, a couple questions though: 1. Can this feature be added to an existing esphome? (Just by adding some lines in the yaml for example) 2. Can this be done on an esp8266 or D1 wemo mini? Thanks

@rickymcdonald4069 10 місяців тому

Esp8266 doesnt have BT. Im not an expert but I have added BT proxy to Lewis’ Everything Presence One and they work great.

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

I don't think you can add it to an existing esphome right now. I need to look into that more because I don't want multiple esp32 in every room.

@unlock-er 10 місяців тому

@@reedssmarthomemy point exactly. I don't really have 2 of esp32s in every room as I've already got them as multisensors cum ble proxy

@PersonXes 10 місяців тому

I wish esphome could do this...

@kotgc7987 10 місяців тому

2:40 Hello, I thought motion detection could be useful for security when sleeping, if someone breaks into the house or a room? What would be best, as I've seen thingies like esp, Aqara, motion sensors, millimetre wave. The esp delay would be too slow in a dangerous situation.

@djVania08 8 місяців тому

Did you find something useful?:)

@FredSchmitthammer 10 місяців тому

Reed, can you do a how to on your other channel? Stay cool in our AZ heat this weekend!

@ERock55 10 місяців тому

I'm excited to apply these to track my cat. She loves finding new hiding spots, it would be nice to just know which room she is in.

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

Haha that would be a good use case!

@T23gunny 10 місяців тому

First thing that popped into my mind was track the cats

@tsgeekk 10 місяців тому

Bluetooth cat collar? I like it.

@geanik 10 місяців тому

which tracker are you usign for that?

@tsgeekk 10 місяців тому

Do air tags work with ESPresence? If so, it looks like there are a bunch of collars with air tags on them 🙂

@jeffvanhorn8933 10 місяців тому

Any thoughts as to why I would only have RGB solids? No color blending and no white? Running ws8215 light strips and wled on an esp8266 board

@jeffvanhorn8933 10 місяців тому

It turns out it was a power issue. Powering 5 meters of 8215 from my USB apparently does not give enough juice to run white. Once I added a power supply everything looks great.

@KalvinJack 10 місяців тому

This is my second time trying this today after seeing your video and for whatever reason I can not get my Apple Watch connected to mqtt I have no idea what I’m missing. I found the irk and everything but nothing shows up I tried messing with config files but I just get errors and when I don’t get errors it dosent work! Ahhh! This stuff can be so frustrating at times.

@NikolaGluvakov 20 днів тому

I can't believe how good you are. Thank you for making these videos!

@NewVenari 10 місяців тому

Do you have a recommendation for laundry machine use detection? Vibration sensor? Power detection for both 120 and 240 volts?

@Bartekwis 10 місяців тому

Use a smart plug(unless you have laundry machine plugged into 240V???(I'm Polish so in Europe this is pretty normal because 240V is standard and something about 400V is high voltage)) Most smart plugs can detect real time wattage so you can do something like this: IF 'laundry machine' WATTAGE > 5(sample error + lights/screen) Say start a timer for 1h Say 'laundry machine completed cycle.'

@glib01 10 місяців тому

Tried many ways, wash cycles were wildly varied. I've had 100% accuracy using a photoresistor hotglued to done led.

@fyou 10 місяців тому

Looks really close to BLE Beacons Still waiting for the scenario when even though you are connected to more than one of these sensors, it just shows your presence to the nearest one. From what you explained, it has to switch from one device to another.

@OmegaTwig 10 місяців тому

That seems easy to fix though as the sensors report out range to device so just prefer the closer one or set a latch on your automations (don't trigger others until more than 3m away from current sensor etc). Doable just more logic

@Larry67902 10 місяців тому

I prefer the LD2410 mmWave sensors (about $7.00 USD on a test board for powering it on aliexpress) along with aome Enclosures (5 total) for about 3.50 USD. This way you don't need a 3D printer to print an enclosure and you don't have to wear or carry any kind of electronic device such as a watch or phone. Works great with no problems.

@Larry67902 10 місяців тому

@@wojtek-33 don't care who it is really just need to know when someone enters a certain area and more importantly when everyone leaves a room or area. The later is where mmWave really shines.

@Larry67902 10 місяців тому

@@wojtek-33 True but then i never said it was either 😃

@Ben-ou6cg 10 місяців тому

How did you set your one up ? my sensors after a few hours or day just start doing false positives. im planning on trying to fix it next week when only i will be home

@Larry67902 10 місяців тому

@@Ben-ou6cg if your using a Bluetooth proxy device like a esp32 then yes there is a bug that makes them go unavailable after a time. They are working on that problem i understand. One of mine is going through a Bluetooth proxy and does this. Reloading the integration for it makes it work again for a time, so i created a automation that when the sensor goes unavailable it forces a reload of the integration. I know this isn't ideal but it works until they can fix it. 😁

@Larry67902 10 місяців тому

@@Ben-ou6cg Also i don't use this sensor to trigger the light to turn on, I use another sensor, either a door sensor if the room only has one exit/entrance or a standard PIR motion sensor. You can also configure the sensor to trigger when you want. Their is a program on the net that you can use to do this.

@PeritusGamingTV 8 місяців тому

Problem with ESPresence is that it doesn't really work for guests. You need millimeter-wave or something similar to have "real" room presence detection. But that is alot more expensive.

@virtualnk5825 8 місяців тому

Oh that sucks 😂 or what if you just don't want to walk around with a smartwatch?

@fernandopenah 10 місяців тому

I prefer to use the M5 Stack Atoms for this application as you can stick it directly to a small usb charger like those 5w iphone charger that most people already have laying around.

@DanielKirsch 10 місяців тому

Even M5 stamps work. They are even smaller with USBC. I use them for this.

@michaels5167 10 місяців тому

How does this compare to your old solution with the pi zero w?

@cjutting 10 місяців тому

I was just thinking the same thing. What happened to a Room Assistant

@tpwaguas 10 місяців тому

Does it work with Homeseer? Is the setup the same? Love your videos!

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

I'm not sure but you might be able to get it to work. You would need to get MQTT working and it seems like some people have done that forums.homeseer.com/forum/homeseer-products-services/general-discussion-area/99336-homeseer-mqtt-plugin Then you would need to figure out how to make a custom sensor for your watch or phone's bluetooth to track it.

@KASumwalt 10 місяців тому

It will work with HomeSeer is your are running one of the MQTT plugins such as mcsMQTT.

@virutalnewscenter 10 місяців тому

Do you know what type of bluetooth it works with? I think there is bluetooth classic and LTE? My hearing aids have bluetooth classic. That would be cool to not have to carry my phone everywhere, and the hearing aids just make it work.

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

I think it's the low energy bluetooth. But it might work with the classic one and that would be pretty sweet if it did work with those!

@user-zr7kz4vs7c 10 місяців тому

Hi , I saw this on their website : An Apple Watch cannot be paired with Bluetooth to the ESPresense instance. You have to extract the IRK from iCloud with the Apple Keychain application on MacOS., I don’t have a Mac computer, does my apple watch still works as a ble tracker device? Thanks 🙏🏻

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

Mine has been working without getting the IRK. That could change if the bluetooth gets randomized from Apple and I plan on adding the IRK soon. But if you don't have lots of Apple devices in your house you might be able to get away with it.

@user-zr7kz4vs7c 10 місяців тому

@@reedssmarthome thanks

@nics8040 10 місяців тому

I had a hard time with this a few months back. My Apple Watch kept changing Bluetooth id names. Did they fix that?

@tamildesan837 10 місяців тому

That’s a security feature I think 🤔

@TheSdfkjh 7 місяців тому

I want to control my a/v and any IR/RF devices for each room, please make a video with a how-to

@TheCowboysdude 10 місяців тому

Great idea.. cannot get it working but great idea. I get firmware installed but after that nothing else works as it should according to instructions...

@MacDork 10 місяців тому

I had the same experience. I added the wifi, and even though it says it's not able to connect, I see it show up on my network w/ a new IP address. From there, it won't join Home Assistant. I can see in the logs where it detects my watch when I get close to it, but without being added to Home Assistant, it's all for naught

@TheCowboysdude 10 місяців тому

@@MacDork suddenly is just working lol

@MacDork 10 місяців тому

@@TheCowboysdude lol ty

@TheCowboysdude 10 місяців тому

@@MacDork I'll take it lol

@SimonLYW 5 днів тому

I really wish Espresense worked with ESP Home, would love for it to just run on my EP1s without having to have a separate ESP32 in each room.

@InderJalli 10 місяців тому

Can you explain some uses for this? I'm not understanding.

@tamildesan837 10 місяців тому

You can turn on/off devices like lamps, ac, fan, play music, turn on coffee machine, etc

@luispichardo374 10 місяців тому

I’ve tried this, but the ESP presense tends to disconnect often. I had to use smart plugs with an automation to reser whenever each ESP would go offline, which was pretty often. Does this happen to you as well?

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

I have only one esp32 board that goes offline for about 4 seconds every 10 minutes or so. None of the other boards do that so it might be a faulty board or something going on with my WiFi. But none of them go offline and stay offline.

@luispichardo374 10 місяців тому

@@reedssmarthome good to know. I run my instance of HA through a VM and I think the Bluetooth dongle I have is causing issues with Bluetooth and disconnecting things so it might be a combination of the boards and my Bluetooth.

@luispichardo374 10 місяців тому

@@reedssmarthome Quick update. I switched to the boards you have yesterday and haven't experienced any disconnection. Also, these boards seem to reboot when they do lose connection versus the previous ones I had that didn't reboot on their own. What are your thoughts on using something like this in place of say an Aqara FP2? I just got some of them and they have their quirks, especially in small rooms.

@joseperez1551 9 місяців тому

Can you do this with Amazon Alexa?

@SimonHodgkiss 10 місяців тому

Does this work with any Bluetooth device? Maybe like a Fitbit tracker? Also what are the battery effects to you Apple Watch if it keeps connecting to these devices I’d expect it would have some sort of effect. Wonder if there’s any other Bluetooth devices that could do work standalone so it’s not a battery drain issue.

@tamildesan837 10 місяців тому

Technically any Bluetooth enabled device should work. You mean Stand alone as in Bluetooth speakers or similar? What will be benefit of that? He is trying to bridge a gap where the Motion sensors have today. If you are standstill like reading or sleeping the motion sensors will switch off the devices. By combining with this presence detection you can keep it on.

@Kiloptero 10 місяців тому

Any recommendation for a beacon?

@itsallasimulationman Місяць тому

I'm wondering how well this works in a 2-story home. Trying to cover a 20'x20' livingroom upstairs without also getting the space below seems challenging...

@NearCry91 10 місяців тому

Would it be best to have the sensor in the center of the room or do walls block the bluetooth?

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

I prefer the edges of the room because it keeps the esp32s far apart. So in the video you saw the living room and kitchen. I have the living room sensor on the far wall and the kitchen on the opposite end. That way there is more separation. But you might need to move it around to find the best spot for your own place.

@NearCry91 10 місяців тому

@@reedssmarthome But do walls block the signal? In the center (if we imagine a square room) the maximum distance would be the same in every direction. Of course it would probably also be inconvenient to place it in the center.

@mahmoudosman93 10 місяців тому

I suggest the irk method for apple devices, old method does not guarantee unique ids, thus wrong reporting

@Foodgeek 10 місяців тому

I made these a couple of months back. After having tweaked the distances it works amazingly :D

@Foodgeek 10 місяців тому

If you are using multiple phones or watches I can recommend pairing with the esp32 base stations for a 100% unique ID :)

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

Great tip, thanks!

@liorzilber2246 4 місяці тому

Hi the youtube is great, can you add some example automation, demonstrate how to do them?

@noloboy 10 місяців тому

Great video! Really wanted to try it but too bad I don't have a 3D printer. Been planning to use something like this for my cat but I got a bad feeling once he sees this bare -- he will chew or it! LOL. Anyone knows where we can buy an already printed case for the 30p version?

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

I haven't tried it but someone suggested a smaller version that has a case already. Seems promising shop.m5stack.com/products/atom-lite-esp32-development-kit

@noloboy 10 місяців тому

@@reedssmarthome Thanks will check it out!

@AntonBalashov 5 місяців тому

BTW, the Raspberry Pi device with the installed Home Assistant also has bluetooth and also should be suitable to be used for that..

@MikeHarris1984 10 місяців тому

Can you assign multiple BT devices? i.e. my phone, my watch, my wfies phone, my wifes watch... etc... nice what i go "where did i set my phone again? "

@MrDavegeo 10 місяців тому

Do you need MQTT set up rather than ZHA?

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

Yes you need MQTT running on Home Assistant.

@MrDavegeo 10 місяців тому

@@reedssmarthome I was afraid you were going to say that - never managed to get that working so went with the simpler ZHA instead. Shame because this looks amazing!

@Reza1984_ 9 місяців тому

I would be so cool if this was possible with the current ZigBee devices, no extra esp module and extra power supply headache

@mbarker631 10 місяців тому

Would it work with air tags instead of Apple Watches?

@Ronaaronhunt 10 місяців тому

I know it will if you don't add the tag to your iphone. But they may have overcome this limitation.

@makeitworktech 10 місяців тому

Very cool Reed. How can we use this in combination with mmWave sensors? This one is slow to respond, but it is individual specific. The mmWave sensor doesn't care who, but it's quicker. Any ideas on using both together? I guess mmWave for things like music, but ESPresence for music, etc.

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

Yes automation videos coming soon!

@mgillis1948 10 місяців тому

Would it work as well with a Pixel Watch?

@reedssmarthome 10 місяців тому

I was never able to get my Galaxy watch to work with Room Presence (the other open source option). I haven't tried with the PIxel Watch yet with Espresense but I'll give it a try today and see if I can get it to work. They recommend a few options to find the Bluetooth ID for Android devices espresense.com/beacons/android