Room level geofencing?

[IVB]

Anyone figure out a way to have Android know what room of the house they're in (without using motion sensors)? Ideally in a way Tasker can detect.

[jkmonroe]

geofancy for ios can react to ibeacons. maybe something similar exists for android?

[wuench]

Maybe something with bluetooth devices?

[jkmonroe]

unfortunately, i think we're stuck with motion sensors for now. i've been thinking about this for a while and have come up with nothing.

[brathnach]

I know this isn't much of help really but I've been looking into this also. I think there could be a potential solution to this dilemma with wifi triangulation.

Kind of similar to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV-9OPnu3cM

or for further reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM4MDHAPKt8

Haven't looked into it in a while (years) now so maybe there is some newer app etc. that I've missed that might come close.

Jim

[IVB]

will watch videos shortly, house is a screamfest right now.

Let me describe my goal, and maybe there's another option. I want context-sensitive voice recognition. I'd like to say "ok google lights on", or "ok google watching tv" and have my phone/tablet know what room i'm in and take the appropriate actions.

I know its not much harder to specify the room, indeed I wonder if I'll have to do that if I can get multiple Amazon Echo's, but maybe not.

[jkmonroe]

i think motion sensors will be your best bet. you can get monoprice z-wave motion sensors for ~$20 i think, just put them everywhere. ive thought about this (more than id like to admit), but if you can adjust the sensitivity correctly you can identify room by room presence with a lot of logic in CQC.

if sensor A then sensor B, wait 30s, write room1 occupied. if sensor A then sensor B and room1 occupied, do nothing. if room1 occupied if sensor B then sensor A, wait 30s, write room1 empty, write room2 occupied.

[IVB]

Thanks for the thought but I think I'll have to accept that what I want isn't yet possible. I need the logic to be in Android so I can have my phone do the needful when I say lights on vs wife or kids who are probably in a different room and have their phone also do the same but for their room.

[Dean Roddey]

Seems like doing it right it would require some sort of transmitter in each corner of the house, then hardware in the phone that can sense the relative strengths of each signal and figure out where you are based on that. And, I guess if you have two stories, maybe one each of 8 corners, to sense all three axes. Of course even that depends on consistent signal reception so as not to fool it.

[jkmonroe]

this is what 'beacons' are supposed to do - http://estimote.com

the problem is that your app has to be able to do all of the work. i dont use android, so im not familiar with Tasker, but i guess it's possible that the app already has the ability.

i know that GeoFancy for iOS can do it.