Edit Proximity Tolerance

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Can you create a way to lower the tolerance for being out of range.  For 
example, with my iPhone 
3G, I have to walk halfway across my office building before I'm "out of range". 
 Ideally, I'd like it to 
register as I walk out of the door of my office.

Would there be a way to create a slider that lowers the amount of signal 
received before being 
declared "out of range"?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Landon.G...@gmail.com on 15 Jun 2009 at 4:51

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I'd like to see this in future versions!

Original comment by jozan.a...@gmail.com on 1 Nov 2009 at 7:39

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Me too.
I used Ubuntu half a year ago and discovered blueproximity.
It does pretty much the same, but with locking/unlocking your user account.
You can set a lot of settings there, one of them being tolerance, and the time 
you need to be out of the set 
range. I would love to see that here too.
Going to take a look at the source to see if I can set it there by hand.

Original comment by brov...@gmail.com on 5 Dec 2009 at 7:31

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This is a while ago, but, have you gotten somewhere brovius?

I use this program to execute an away script which pauses my music, set the 
setting for demanding password on sleep or screensever, and activate the 
screensaver. When I return the music starts, password requirment is of and the 
screensaver quits.

Problem was: When using a single bluetooth device(specifically a Jabra dogtag 
for handsfree usage), the scanner randomly figured out that I was not in range, 
even though the device itself never moved. It failes on some lookups. This 
could be fixed by; when noticing device is no longer in ragen, check again, and 
agagin (3x), if still not in range; commence lockdown. 

I've personally edited the code to include two bluetooth devices. I got a 
bluetooth dongle witch I keep in the desk most of the time, and I got my 
iPhone. The iPhone most probably will move away from the computer, even though 
I don't want to lock down the machine. But at the same time I most likely won't 
be using my machine, without the iPhone being nearby. The dongle leaves or is 
turned of if I am certain I will leave. 

I would also otherwise like a menu choice which disables/enables scanning of 
devices.

So features I think should be considered:
    Possibly add a probe feature (double/triple check if the state changes)
    Add more devices
    Script for doing something the next few minutes while devices where within proximity
        Take a webcam pic regulary the 3 first minutes.
        What is the location, what is the IP etc. 

    Probing the same device several times, should resovle the issue with using 2 devices. But at the same time = two devices can be an extra feature == if(both devices are present) open system up. If(only 1 of the lesser devices are present), partly lock down system. If(both devices are not present) lock down system completely).

    Also a feature to disable the scanning/actions, like when you are traveling. You don't need to execute measures that you have control, cos you have full control at all times (not being at home/work etc). This is mostly for saving battery (turning on bluetooth on all devices). Quitting the application is troublesome (troublesome to start it again). The ideal would be to stop scanning/using processor time when the bluetooth is disabled on the machine (havn't tested this..).

yeah..

Original comment by remi...@gmail.com on 1 Sep 2010 at 3:16

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Has anyone figure out how to change the sensitivity of what counts as out of 
range?

Original comment by jsh...@googlemail.com on 19 Mar 2011 at 9:43

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I've walked around the entire office and Proximity still registers me as being 
close by. It finally registered that I left, after I left the building. I also 
took my bluetooth keyboard and walked around the entire office building trying 
to figure out where the thing would die off, this has massive range!

Original comment by amitsamt...@gmail.com on 11 Aug 2011 at 9:56