Getting Started with ESPresence

ESPresence Room Presence Detection
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** TIMESTAMPS **
00:00 Intro
01:22 Preface
02:45 A brief discussion about the tech at play
03:52 pre-requisites
07:22 Getting Started
10:46 Basic Config
15:43 Finding the IP Address
16:47 A look at how the Base Station appears in Home Assistant
18:23 Exploring the Advanced Settings
24:26 "Tracker" Fingerprints
25:35 How I found my Device ID's
27:58 Adding the "Tracker" details to Home Assistant
30:26 Finally Telling Home Assistant the details of our Trackers
34:44 How does it show up in Home Assistant?
39:09 Some Automation Ideas and Summary
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[@minagirgis2222]

Thanks for the detailed informative tutorial. I have followed the instructions, but my apple watch only state is not_home. What am I doing wrong?

[@HiveMindAutomation]

There's some more detailed documentation on the espresense.com website for troubleshooting and enrolling devices properly.

[@simoncope2437]

Great video mate, very in-depth. That said, I can’t get this working. I have spent hours troubleshooting this but not really getting anywhere. I feel that I am missing something. Do you have any sample configs that you could share? Also, when you restart HA in your video after editing your configuration, your sensors just magically show which rooms your devices are in… where did you mention the part about making that part work? Is there an integration that is required? Cheers.

[@HiveMindAutomation]

You need to have MQTT setup in your Home Assistant

[@simoncope2437]

@@HiveMindAutomation I already have MQTT setup and running in my HA. Is there anything else that I need to get it to work?

[@pr19580]

You could also add unique_id: to each sensor config to allow them to be edited.

[@HiveMindAutomation]

yes, that is a good idea.

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[@HiveMindAutomation]

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[@marcus3d]

Lots of people don't wear a watch nowadays (e.g., none in my extended family), the keys are left by the door, and the phone is wherever whenever, and in my home we have 2 phones between the 4 of us, since kids don't have their own phones, but they occasionally use our phones for games or videos or music. Anything tracking BT is just not going to work. I'm shocked if it would work for the majority of households. That said, when we're looking for some phone it'd be useful to know in which room it is, but there are other, simpler solutions to that.

[@HiveMindAutomation]

It's certainly not a suitable solution for everyone, but It's still a cool project to play with.

[@ptkambo]

Do modern cell phones spoof your MAC ID? would this still work?

[@HiveMindAutomation]

This is why you use the ID not the MAC Address.

[@digitalsparky]

Oh dear... I know you tried to blur your wifi password, but then you scrolled and the blur didn't go with it....

[@HiveMindAutomation]

Thanks for the heads up. I think I've sorted that now using the clunky KZbin Video Editor.

[@_Bogdan_]

Use enroll to add your iPhone or other Apple devices

[@simoncope2437]

I tried to use Enroll to add my devices, but after timing out, it never added them. I thought there would have been a pairing function but didn’t see one.

[@_Bogdan_]

Click enroll name your Device you want to add and click enroll then open Bluetooth on device and click on espresence to connect when it has disconnected then the device has been added and you can see it in the fingerprints and then you can copy then you can use the name under fingerprints to and to home assistant

[@HiveMindAutomation]

Thanks for the Tip, will try that out

[@squalazzo]

link is wrong, contains a C instead of an S bringing to a completely different site...

[@MRPtech]

Yeah. Links is messed up :/

[@HiveMindAutomation]

Thanks for letting me know, I've fixed that up now.

[@TheRealAnthony_real]

Done this year's back .. not reliable unfortunately .. because the BLE may detect you in the wrong room depending on the house layout no mater what you do .. I since moved to something more precise however it's not for everyone ..

[@HiveMindAutomation]

Interesting. What's the tool you're using now? It can be hard using wireless technology to track devicecs because of overlapping base stations.

[@TheRealAnthony_real]

@@HiveMindAutomation frigate and double take