Multiple watches, example?

[martinrosenauer]

Hi @dalehumby

First of all - great work! Thanks!

Can you possibly provide an example of a setup with multiple watches (different generations) and multiple ESPs (in different rooms) giving me binary_sensors.presence for each person in HA?

I would very much like to use this for tracking wether my wife, the kids or myself are at home or not.

Thanks!

[ArnoS146]

Hi @martinrosenauer

I'm trying to do the same thing. Did you mange to get this working?

[stofakiller]

I detects all watches, eg here from my surroundings (3 diff watches)
�[0;36m[D][ble_adv:077]: Found Apple Watch (mac 57:EC:5A:F5:5C:98) rssi -51�[0m
�[0;36m[D][sensor:125]: 'Jan Apple Watch bil RSSI': Sending state -70.86550 dBm with 0 decimals of accuracy�[0m
�[0;36m[D][sensor:125]: 'room_presence_debounce': Sending state 1.00000 with 1 decimals of accuracy�[0m
�[0;36m[D][script:020]: Script 'presence_timeout' restarting (mode: restart)�[0m
�[0;36m[D][ble_adv:077]: Found Apple Watch (mac 6C:CC:63:A9:B6:41) rssi -75�[0m
�[0;36m[D][sensor:125]: 'Jan Apple Watch bil RSSI': Sending state -72.10585 dBm with 0 decimals of accuracy�[0m
�[0;36m[D][sensor:125]: 'room_presence_debounce': Sending state 1.00000 with 1 decimals of accuracy�[0m
�[0;36m[D][script:020]: Script 'presence_timeout' restarting (mode: restart)�[0m
�[0;36m[D][ble_adv:077]: Found Apple Watch (mac 7B:75:FF:8B:75:79) rssi -88�[0m
�[0;36m[D][sensor:125]: 'Jan Apple Watch bil RSSI': Sending state -76.87409 dBm with 0 decimals of accuracy�[0m
�[0;36m[D][sensor:125]: 'room_presence_debounce': Sending state 1.00000 with 1 decimals of accuracy�[0m
�[0;36m[D][script:020]: Script 'presence_timeout' restarting (mode: restart)�[0m

But they all report as one watch back to HA

[townsmcp]

@stofakiller for the 3 watches, are they all Apple Watches and are they all different models of Watch? Ie Watch 4, 5 and 6?

[ArnoS146]

In my case both are different models one a series 5 and one a series 6. I would want to be able to identify which one is in the room if not both. As this will tell me who it is in a way. Any ideas on how to get that done?

[stofakiller]

@stofakiller for the 3 watches, are they all Apple Watches and are they all different models of Watch? Ie Watch 4, 5 and 6?

Some are my neighbors, so i dont know, but i think the code finds all possible watches...

[stofakiller]

In my case both are different models one a series 5 and one a series 6. I would want to be able to identify which one is in the room if not both. As this will tell me who it is in a way. Any ideas on how to get that done?

So far i cant find anything usefull in the data from the watch, i found out to change the code to my phone, so i think i'll try to make it track both my phone and my watch at the same time...

[ripvega]

So far i cant find anything usefull in the data from the watch, i found out to change the code to my phone, so i think i'll try to make it track both my phone and my watch at the same time...

It's been a while, but have you done this?

[ArnoS146]

So far i cant find anything usefull in the data from the watch, i found out to change the code to my phone, so i think i'll try to make it track both my phone and my watch at the same time...

It's been a while, but have you done this?

I have given up on it for the time being. Without being able identify the exact device it won't work for my use case.

[ripvega]

Same here. It works really well but I need something that only works with specific devices. I've tried ESPresence and others but the overhead is too high. I need a single-device solution, which this is, but it is not detecting unique devices yet.

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[mac-lucky]

Did someone make it work?