New user - Presence sensor.

vaderag

Good Morning,

I've just ordered a Homey! very excited

One of the things I want to do with it is detect when my home is empty / we return and activate/deactivate a siren for my alarm system.

It seems smartthings has a presence sensor keyring which seems perfect for what I need, but I don't see an app for smartthings or the presence sensor meaning I guess this can't be used?

Are there any alternatives that can be used?

I don't want to use smartphone as a) my wife's smartphone is rubbish b) I don't want to rely on our cleaner / cat feeder having their smartphone and setting that up - giving a keyring is so much easier...

Thanks!

mruiter

There will be done some testing with bluetooth beacons and and Happy Bubbles in the near future.

The hardware looks good. But did not have that many time to test. Swttt is also looking into them
It works with almost everything that has bluetooth in it.

So a Phone or a simple BLE beacon keychain coin

https://www.happybubbles.tech/presence/detector

bvdbos

You could also use NFC, Homey has a build-in reader:
https://forum.athom.com/discussion/1147/add-rfid-nfc-key-to-homey

vaderag

bvdbos said:

You could also use NFC, Homey has a build-in reader:
https://forum.athom.com/discussion/1147/add-rfid-nfc-key-to-homey

Yeah, that occurred to me but worries me a little bit tho with the device needing to be in such easy access (and therefore unpluggable). Also, i want it in the Living Room to use the IR

I'm trying to understand how this works? The  Happy Bubbles sits on your keychain (presumably) and then connects to Homey using BT? Is that right?

mruiter said:

There will be done some testing with bluetooth beacons and and Happy Bubbles in the near future.

The hardware looks good. But did not have that many time to test. Swttt is also looking into them
It works with almost everything that has bluetooth in it.

So a Phone or a simple BLE beacon keychain coin

https://www.happybubbles.tech/presence/

vaderag

http://www.vesternet.com/zipabox-rfid-keypad 

This looks good, but seems no support (yet?)