ansible-playbooks VS room-assistant

I started using ansible to do this and published the room-assistant playbook to GitHub. With the playbook it should be pretty easy to setup, the only manual parts required are the initial setup of the Pis (flashing image, setting up SSH/WiFi...).

Also, I am using the bluetooth on the Pi to drive Room Assistant, to tell which room I'm in and automatically switch on the audio in that room when I am in that room, and switch it off when I leave. It also has support for the grid-eye sensor which looks like the flir sensor you useThere's also a similar project for ESP32 called ESPresence.

Check out Room Assistant. I have 9 RaspberryPi Zeros set up around my house and these do a great job tracking which rooms our cats are in, provided that we put a tiny BLE dongle on their collar.

Earlier I had six raspberry pi's spread around the house to try out new things (e.g. room level presence detection - which did not work well despite weeks of tuning - and as snapcast clients). But it became a pita to keep watch over so many independent systems, updating them, remembering the IP, passwords, forgetting what I have installed last time, etc. This is what I like with the whole docker thing: fire up a container, tweak it, and then if it is not used delete it again without affecting the other services.

There's a project called "room-assistant", however you'd need to have multiple Raspberry Pis running it in various locations...

https://www.room-assistant.io/

You can try room-assistant. It takes your Bluetooth devices and calculates distance, works quite nice in my environment for in room detection.

I've been playing around with room assistant. https://www.room-assistant.io/