Room-assistant Alternatives

room-assistant reviews and mentions

• Room scale object tracking
  1 project | /r/homeautomation | 26 Nov 2022
• Trigger IFTTT when phone is near a location without using GPS (Bluetooth?)
  1 project | /r/smarthome | 22 Oct 2022
• motion sensor as on/off switch
  1 project | /r/homeautomation | 15 Mar 2022
• Some whole house audio and presence detection use cases
  2 projects | /r/Pockit | 11 Mar 2022

  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.

• Are bluetooth beacons still the best way to do location tracking in a building?
  2 projects | /r/homeautomation | 5 Dec 2021

  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.

• I miss my self-hosting hobby
  6 projects | /r/selfhosted | 5 Nov 2021

  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?
  1 project | /r/tasker | 22 Sep 2021
• Home Assistant – open-source home automation
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Sep 2021

  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/

• Triangulation by WiFi and Bluetooth for presence in rooms?
  3 projects | /r/openhab | 4 Sep 2021

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

• Indoor location?
  1 project | /r/homeautomation | 14 Jul 2021

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

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