tools
Utilities (by owntracks)
room-assistant
Presence tracking and more for automation on the room-level (by mKeRix)
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| - | MIT License |
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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
tools
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Self-hosted Google timeline alternative
It can import from Google Takeout(or whatever it's called). There is a script here in Google folder.
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What do you self-host that no one's heard of?
owntracks - it's like google location tracking.
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Best lock for bedroom door
To have Owntracks on my phone (https://owntracks.org/).
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What location sharing app would you recommend?
Can't vouch for it personally, but you could check out OwnTracks.
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Google Maps Timeline feature replacement?
You might be able to link https://owntracks.org/ to a nextcloud instance. As owntracks is on iOS https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mqttitude/id692424691
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MQTT safety in home network
You can self sign a CA certificate for yourself and run your MQTT broker via the certificate. If you do not know how to do this and become your own CA check out: https://github.com/owntracks/tools/blob/master/TLS/generate-CA.sh you can run it and it'll just work. Like this: ./generate-CA.sh You will have your certs for your server there, now you can do: ./generate-CA.sh client mosquittotestclient if you wish to have a test client, I use this for the mosquitto-sub command. Note that enigmaIOT will use your CA cert and gen it's own certs for your mqtt
room-assistant
Posts with mentions or reviews of room-assistant.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-11.
- Room scale object tracking
- Trigger IFTTT when phone is near a location without using GPS (Bluetooth?)
- motion sensor as on/off switch
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Some whole house audio and presence detection use cases
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.
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Are bluetooth beacons still the best way to do location tracking in a building?
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.
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I miss my self-hosting hobby
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.
- People that use NFC tags, what are your most useful tasks with them?
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Home Assistant – open-source home automation
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/
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Triangulation by WiFi and Bluetooth for presence in rooms?
You can try room-assistant. It takes your Bluetooth devices and calculates distance, works quite nice in my environment for in room detection.
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Indoor location?
I've been playing around with room assistant. https://www.room-assistant.io/
What are some alternatives?
When comparing tools and room-assistant you can also consider the following projects:
openwebrx - Open source, multi-user SDR receiver software with a web interface
OpenMQTTGateway - MQTT gateway for ESP8266 or ESP32 with bidirectional 433mhz/315mhz/868mhz, Infrared communications, BLE, Bluetooth, beacons detection, mi flora, mi jia, LYWSD02, LYWSD03MMC, Mi Scale, TPMS, BBQ thermometer compatibility & LoRa.
iptv - Collection of publicly available IPTV channels from all over the world [UnavailableForLegalReasons - Repository access blocked]
monitor - Distributed advertisement-based BTLE presence detection reported via mqtt
syncthing-android - Wrapper of syncthing for Android.
find3 - High-precision indoor positioning framework, version 3.
phonetrack-oc
openhab-addons - Add-ons for openHAB
librephotos - A self-hosted open source photo management service. This is the repository of the backend.
hyperion.ng - The successor to Hyperion aka Hyperion Next Generation
Akaunting - Online Accounting Software
ewelink-web-ui - Ewelink Web App Tool for managing devices from PC
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room-assistant vs OpenMQTTGateway
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room-assistant vs monitor
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room-assistant vs find3
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room-assistant vs openhab-addons
tools vs librephotos
room-assistant vs hyperion.ng
tools vs Akaunting
room-assistant vs ewelink-web-ui