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Add presence indication #23

Open Rosi2143 opened 1 year ago

Rosi2143 commented 1 year ago

I think it's an interresting information to know who is currently home.

So I would like to add an additional card to the "homeCard" displaying the status of list elements (same as the scene card) of people that are home.

Proposal of a new PresenceCard: #22

hmerk commented 1 year ago

I am not convinced to add it as a „default“. To have a proper working presence detection, there is much more needed than just show a state in the UI. And we are definitely not going to include instructions how to achieve that. I would therefore tend not to implement this. You can still implement this in your local installation.

Nic0205 commented 1 year ago

I am with hmerk. Presence detection is a really nice feature - BUT to get this really work correct you will have to implement a huge amount of logic and you will have to code this.

One of the main things this project is based on is that users do not have to customize ton of things. If the model is used right - it works nearly as it is.

If you could find a way how we could config-less get the right state we could of course implement such a card...

Rosi2143 commented 1 year ago

Hi,

we live in modern times :-). All my kids and my wife are safe to say to be home if their mobile phone is connected to the network - and vise versa.

So all I need to - close to perfect - find out if someone is home is check via network binding if I can ping their phone.

Overall it is not more complicated - given the correctness of my assumption - to check if a person is present than if a window is open.

hmerk commented 1 year ago

Still not convinced to have this implemented as a „default“ widget. As said before, there are many things/widgets that could be implemented, but we would need to make it configurable for the userbase to decide if they are going to use it or not. According to our overall approach, trying to provide a zero config solution just based on the semantic modell, this would not be in line. What we rather should do, once we are further with the documentation, is to provide instructions on how to extend the solution with „custom“ widgets. Just for example, I have quite some custom widgets added to my installation (electricity and gas meter, washing maschine and tumble dryer, central heating, etc.) which are so individual, that I am not going to add them as default to the project.

Having said all this, I am closing this one as a „won‘t fix“