Ping subnet occasionally, to help with detection of iphones?

tomwilkie / awesomation

Home Awesomation; python home automation system.

http://homeawesomation.appspot.com

MIT License

28 stars 1 forks source link

Ping subnet occasionally, to help with detection of iphones? #7

Closed tomwilkie closed 9 years ago

danharvey commented 9 years ago

Possibly something with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBeacon might help too. The TI sensortag can act as a iBeacon. That would require bluetooth being on though.

tomwilkie commented 9 years ago

Yeah I've got a bunch of iBeacons, but my understanding is that need a custom app on the iphone. I started writing one but didn't get very far - maybe do that next? I reckon we'll get it reliable with just arp and ping.

danharvey commented 9 years ago

Yes I think it would need an iOS app. But then it may use less power than pinging the iPhone and waking up it's wifi radio a lot? arp/ping is nice and generic and work for any phone though which is good, and is far less work I think.