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<title><![CDATA[Category: Presence-Detection | Home Assistant]]></title>
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<updated>2018-01-24T13:02:59+00:00</updated>
<updated>2018-01-25T17:24:11+00:00</updated>
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When you use OwnTracks in standard _major move_ mode (which is kind to your phone battery) it sometimes fails to update when you’d like it to. In my case I found that it would often send a location update as I was on my way home, but then not update when I got home. The result would be that Home Assistant would think I was 500M away from home, and take quite a while to notice I was home. It would also mean that the automation that should turn on my lights when I got home didn’t work very well! There were a few times when my phone location updated at 2am and turned the lights on for me. Fortunately my wife is very patient!
Luckily, OwnTracks supports iBeacons so I could use them to make presence detection more reliable. When OwnTracks sees a beacon it recognises, it will send an update. This means that if you put a beacon at your front door - OwnTracks will see it within a few seconds of you arriving home - and send an update saying it has seen this iBeacon.
Luckily, OwnTracks supports iBeacons so I could use them to make presence detection more reliable. When OwnTracks sees a beacon it recognizes, it will send an update. This means that if you put a beacon at your front door - OwnTracks will see it within a few seconds of you arriving home - and send an update saying it has seen this iBeacon.
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[MQTT]: /components/mqtt/#picking-a-broker
[OwnTracks]: /components/device_tracker.owntracks/
You then have to (A) tell Home Assistant where the beacon is located and (B) tell OwnTracks to recognise the beacon.
You then have to (A) tell Home Assistant where the beacon is located and (B) tell OwnTracks to recognize the beacon.
#### <a class='title-link' name='a-tell-home-assistant-where-your-beacon-is-located' href='#a-tell-home-assistant-where-your-beacon-is-located'></a> A. Tell Home Assistant where your beacon is located