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cyberman54 / ESP32-Paxcounter

Wifi & BLE driven passenger flow metering with cheap ESP32 boards
https://cyberman54.github.io/ESP32-Paxcounter/
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MAC Address Randomization #1006

Closed Timmwardion closed 6 months ago

Timmwardion commented 6 months ago

How does Pax Counter deal with MAC address randomization. To get accurate readings of people/devices MAC addresses are now pretty much useless as devices will generally change reported MAC addresses for every request to APs where they are not authenticated.

At least that's my understanding.

cyberman54 commented 6 months ago

Pax Counter intentionally does count local ("randomized") MACs only. It does not act like an Wifi AP, there are not requests.

Timmwardion commented 6 months ago

Ok, thanks. So it’s overcounting then. That is, it doesn’t count people or devices, it counts Mac addresses (and each device will have many of them reported).