helto4real/hassio-better-presence repository overview

⁠Better presence add-on (1.1.3)

This add-on makes a combination of trackers to get better tracking capabilies in home assistant Checkout https://philhawthorne.com/making-home-assistants-presence-detection-not-so-binary/⁠ as inspiration

The reason for this is the new person that can only take device_tracker as device, not sensor. Everything else is the same.

Basically the state will go:

Home->Just left->Away->Zone

Home->Just left->Home

Away->Just arrived->Home

⁠Add add-on

Go to ADD-ON-STORE and add the https://github.com/helto4real/hassio-add-ons⁠ to "Add new repository by URL".

After that helto4real add-ons should show under the title: Helto4Real Hass.io Add-ons

⁠Configuration add-on

For best results recommend using one tracker that is of router type and one tracker that is of bluetooth type and finally the third tracker that is of gps type.

You will need atleast one of router/bluetooth type and one of gps type trackers.

The name of the device tracker in Home Assistant will be device_tracker.[id]_presence

⁠Example of two persons and their trackers.

{
  "log_level": "info",
  "tracking": {
    "just_arrived_time": 300,
    "just_left_time": 60,
    "home_state": "Home",
    "just_left_state": "Just left",
    "just_arrived_state": "Just arrived",
    "away_state": "Away"
  },
  "persons": [
    {
      "id": "thomas",
      "friendly_name": "Thomas",
      "devices": [
        "device_tracker.thomas_gps_tracker",
        "device_tracker.thomas_bt_tracker",
        "device_tracker.thomas_router_tracker"
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "dawn",
      "friendly_name": "Dawn",
      "devices": [
        "device_tracker.dawns_gps_tracker",
        "device_tracker.dawns_bt_tracker",
        "device_tracker.dawns_router_tracker"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

⁠Settings