room-assistant VS monitor

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/

That doesn’t say that you shouldn’t try and tinker with it though! It’s quite fun - just be prepared for an angry partner every now and then ;) If you do want to look into it, look for ‘monitor Bluetooth presence tracking’ - https://github.com/andrewjfreyer/monitor

I use monitor with my iPhone 12 and don't have any problems. It's using the same underlying stack though, so I can't say why it would work if the native integration doesn't, but give it a shot!