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You mean like what I'm doing right now on a fair all the time... :-) https://twitter.com/annevanrossum/status/1200478825458622464?s=19 https://twitter.com/anne

You mean like what I'm doing right now on a fair all the time... :-) https://twitter.com/annevanrossum/status/1200478825458622464?s=19 https://twitter.com/annevanrossum/status/1200478825458622464... This is not the interesting feature of this system by the way. That is microgeofencing, knowing per room where people are. Yes, you know where you are in the house. However, your "smart" home does not. Integration with home assistant is on the roadmap. We need a few more people to want it. Yes, it's a shameless plug. However, there aren't many open source hardware products on the market, so I think it contributes to the discussion.

giancarlostoro 7y ago
Mycroft gets my attention in this regard.
- MrQuincle 7y ago
  Definitely! It's the only open source smart speaker I know. Here in Holland there's also the Homey, but they locked most of it. It's benefit is that you can run local connections. Even the Google Local SDK does not support BLE connections to local devices.
  - mackrevinack 7y ago
    there is Snips as well. you can install it on a raspberry pi but I think they are working on making an actual hardware speaker too
    - SEJeff 7y ago
      Snips was recently purchased by Sonos, who already makes actual hardware speakers.
a254613e 7y ago
> Yes, you know where you are in the house. However, your "smart" home does not. I solved this in home assistant by adding sensors to my doors inside the apartment. For example if the living room doors are closed, and after that there's movement inside, the room is marked as "occupied". It works really well. Same could be achieved with straight line movement sensors on the door frames, if you're someone who keeps the doors open all the time. And speaking of open source, my whole smart home setup (from sensors, lights, heating, etc) works offline and using open source software and protocols even if hardware isn't open source itself. Which I found to be a good tradeoff.
- MrQuincle 7y ago
  Yeah, then you've more data. It will work better because even if it doesn't see movements you know the door hasn't opened so the person has to be in there still. I think you will run into trouble if there are more people in your household though. But it's a smart idea!
- function_seven 7y ago
  Do you have any recommendations for straight line movement sensors? Zigbee preferred but I could use Z-Wave as well.
input_sh 7y ago
> Yes, you know where you are in the house. However, your "smart" home does not. Plenty of options for presence detection: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/#presence-detection https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/#presence-detecti... Most of them check to see if you're connected to the wifi, while some of them rely on your smartphone to report your GPS coordinates. I personally use nmap to look for my phone on my wifi network.
- MrQuincle 7y ago
  That's just presence. It's not micro geofencing as for example also done with Zuli or RoomMe.

giancarlostoro 7y ago

Mycroft gets my attention in this regard.

MrQuincle 7y ago
Definitely! It's the only open source smart speaker I know. Here in Holland there's also the Homey, but they locked most of it. It's benefit is that you can run local connections. Even the Google Local SDK does not support BLE connections to local devices.
- mackrevinack 7y ago
  there is Snips as well. you can install it on a raspberry pi but I think they are working on making an actual hardware speaker too
  - SEJeff 7y ago
    Snips was recently purchased by Sonos, who already makes actual hardware speakers.

a254613e 7y ago

> Yes, you know where you are in the house. However, your "smart" home does not. I solved this in home assistant by adding sensors to my doors inside the apartment. For example if the living room doors are closed, and after that there's movement inside, the room is marked as "occupied". It works really well. Same could be achieved with straight line movement sensors on the door frames, if you're someone who keeps the doors open all the time. And speaking of open source, my whole smart home setup (from sensors, lights, heating, etc) works offline and using open source software and protocols even if hardware isn't open source itself. Which I found to be a good tradeoff.

MrQuincle 7y ago
Yeah, then you've more data. It will work better because even if it doesn't see movements you know the door hasn't opened so the person has to be in there still. I think you will run into trouble if there are more people in your household though. But it's a smart idea!
function_seven 7y ago
Do you have any recommendations for straight line movement sensors? Zigbee preferred but I could use Z-Wave as well.

input_sh 7y ago

> Yes, you know where you are in the house. However, your "smart" home does not. Plenty of options for presence detection: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/#presence-detection https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/#presence-detecti... Most of them check to see if you're connected to the wifi, while some of them rely on your smartphone to report your GPS coordinates. I personally use nmap to look for my phone on my wifi network.

MrQuincle 7y ago
That's just presence. It's not micro geofencing as for example also done with Zuli or RoomMe.