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<a href="/blog/2016/04/30/ibeacons-part-1-making-presence-detection-work-better/">iBeacons: Making presence detection work better (part I)</a>
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<time datetime="2016-04-30T06:50:09+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> April 30, 2016</time>
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<span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Greg Dowling</span>
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<span><i class='icon-time'></i> nine minutes reading time</span>
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<li>OwnTracks</li>
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<li>Presence-Detection</li>
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<li>iBeacons</li>
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href="/blog/2016/04/30/ibeacons-part-1-making-presence-detection-work-better/#disqus_thread"
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>Comments</a>
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<p><em>This post is by Home Assistant contributor <a href="https://github.com/pavoni">Greg Dowling</a>.</em></p>
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<p>In 2013 Apple introduced iBeacons: a class of Bluetooth low energy (LE) devices that broadcast their identifier to nearby devices, including most smartphones. At first glance it’s hard to imagine why they might be useful. In this two part blog I’ll try and explain why they are useful and how you can use them with Home Assistant.</p>
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<p>The reason I started using iBeacons was to improve presence detection (and I think that’s the case with most people) so that’s what I’ll discuss in <em>part 1</em>. In <em>part 2</em> I’ll talk about using iBeacons to track devices that can’t track themselves.</p>
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<h3><a class="title-link" name="using-beacons-to-improve-owntracks-location-data" href="#using-beacons-to-improve-owntracks-location-data"></a> Using beacons to improve OwnTracks location data</h3>
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<p>When you use OwnTracks in standard <em>major move</em> 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!</p>
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<p>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.</p>
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<a class="btn pull-right" href="/blog/2016/04/30/ibeacons-part-1-making-presence-detection-work-better/#read-more">Read on →</a>
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<a href="/blog/2016/02/20/community-highlights/">Community Highlights</a>
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<time datetime="2016-02-20T09:06:00+00:00" pubdate data-updated="true"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> February 20, 2016</time>
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<span class="byline author vcard"><i class='icon-user'></i> Paulus Schoutsen</span>
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<span><i class='icon-time'></i> two minutes reading time</span>
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<li>Community</li>
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<li>Video</li>
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>Comments</a>
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<p>Home Assistant land has been busy and a lot of people have been creating awesome stuff. We’ve added <a href="/cookbook/">a cookbook section</a> to the website full of examples how you can automate different things. Make sure you take a look and share your own recipes too!</p>
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<h3><a class="title-link" name="home-automation-demo-by-part-of-the-thing" href="#home-automation-demo-by-part-of-the-thing"></a> Home automation demo by Part of the Thing</h3>
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Mc_29EC3aZw" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>
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<h3><a class="title-link" name="haaska---alexa-skill-adapter-for-home-assistant" href="#haaska---alexa-skill-adapter-for-home-assistant"></a> Haaska - Alexa Skill Adapter for Home Assistant</h3>
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<p>Haaska allows you to control lights, switches, and scenes exposed by your Home Assistant instance using an Amazon Echo. This is different from our own <a href="/components/alexa/">Alexa</a> component because it will teach the Amazon Echo directly about the devices instead of teaching it to talk to Home Assistant. It will not allow you to use custom sentences but it will allow you to skip the ‘Ask Home Assistant’ part when giving commands:</p>
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<li>“Alexa, set kitchen to twenty percent”</li>
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<li>“Alexa, turn on evening scene”</li>
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<li>“Alexa, turn off bedroom light”</li>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/auchter/haaska">Haaska on GitHub</a></p>
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<h3><a class="title-link" name="integrating-home-assistant-with-homekit" href="#integrating-home-assistant-with-homekit"></a> Integrating Home Assistant with HomeKit</h3>
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<p>Contributor Maddox has created a plugin for HomeBridge, an open-source HomeKit bridge. This will allow you to control your home using Siri on your Apple devices. HomeBridge has recently restructured so you’ll have to install the plugin separately with the homebridge-homeassistant npm package.</p>
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<p>Example config.json entry to load Home Assistant:</p>
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<div class="language-json highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="s2">"platforms"</span><span class="err">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="p">[</span><span class="w">
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<p><a href="https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge">HomeBridge on GitHub</a>
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<a href="https://github.com/maddox/homebridge-homeassistant">HomeBridge Home Assistant Plugin</a></p>
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<h3><a class="title-link" name="custom-alarm-system-with-home-assistant" href="#custom-alarm-system-with-home-assistant"></a> Custom alarm system with Home Assistant</h3>
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<p>User thaijames <a href="https://community.home-assistant.io/t/controlling-house-alarm-from-ha/67">describes in the Home Assistant forums</a> how he has created his own NFC-based alarm system using Home Assistant, DIY components and Garfield dolls.</p>
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Hold your NFC tag against the belly of Garfield to unlock the alarm.
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