Hello! First of all thanks for making this script! It's really awesome! 😄
I have a couple of tiles that I use as a way to detect when someone is at home. They advertise themselves as beacons and, as far as I can tell, they don't respond to arrival/depart scans. Which brings me to my first question:
When I run the script with -b, it will send an MQTT message for every beacon it finds, not just the ones set in the known beacons file. I live in an apartment building so there are A LOT of beacons around me. But also my own devices, like the nest smoke detectors, some philips bulbs etc advertise as beacons. I added a bunch of of mac addresses to the filter list however there are just so many, it would be way more efficient if there was a way to only send messages about the ones I'm actually interested in. As far as I can tell currently there is no way of doing this. I wonder a feature like that would make sense to implement in your script :)
My second question is, if there is an MQTT message that could be used to get the current status of a known beacon. This would be great because if I need to reboot HA, I also have to reboot monitor so that I get the beacon status back. It would also help me check if monitor is still running by periodically ask it to give me a beacon status, since, from HA's perspective, there is no way to know if monitor crashed or if the beacon status hasn't changed.
Hello! First of all thanks for making this script! It's really awesome! 😄
I have a couple of tiles that I use as a way to detect when someone is at home. They advertise themselves as beacons and, as far as I can tell, they don't respond to arrival/depart scans. Which brings me to my first question:
When I run the script with
-b, it will send an MQTT message for every beacon it finds, not just the ones set in the known beacons file. I live in an apartment building so there are A LOT of beacons around me. But also my own devices, like the nest smoke detectors, some philips bulbs etc advertise as beacons. I added a bunch of of mac addresses to the filter list however there are just so many, it would be way more efficient if there was a way to only send messages about the ones I'm actually interested in. As far as I can tell currently there is no way of doing this. I wonder a feature like that would make sense to implement in your script :)My second question is, if there is an MQTT message that could be used to get the current status of a known beacon. This would be great because if I need to reboot HA, I also have to reboot monitor so that I get the beacon status back. It would also help me check if monitor is still running by periodically ask it to give me a beacon status, since, from HA's perspective, there is no way to know if monitor crashed or if the beacon status hasn't changed.
Thanks so much!