Verify presence - User returns home

Hi @Steph38230,

Tracking of connected devices (watches, phones, etc.) works very poorly over Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. This is largely intentional: manufacturers have implemented many techniques to prevent tracking of people (MAC address randomization, OS-level protections, etc.).

The goal is to make it much more difficult to identify and track a device over time, which is a good thing from a privacy standpoint.

That’s perfectly possible :slight_smile:

You create 2 scenes:

  • « If user A enters zone X » → « Mark user A as home »
  • « If user A leaves zone X » → « Mark user A as away »

For my part, for presence management, I set up 2 shortcuts on my phone:

My phone itself does the zone entry/exit detection, and then it makes a request to Gladys (via the Gladys Plus Open API: Open API | Gladys Assistant )

It works great and I think it’s the most battery-optimized way to do it, because the phone handles all the intelligence and so it’s optimized by Apple :slight_smile:

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