I put this in EVERY room! Smart room detection 😲
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- I put ESPresense around my entire house! Now I can automate based on what room I'm in with my Apple Watch.
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Install Espresense: espresense.com/firmware
If it says the WiFi doesn't connect, it might be a current bug so look for the device on your network and go to the IP address. Should be fine.
Connect the ESP device to Home Assistant: espresense.com/configuration/...
Update Use the IRK for Apple devices. Yes it can work without it but the IRK method is way more accurate.
For Apple watch: espresense.com/beacons/apple
For iPhone: community.home-assistant.io/t...
Then create a sensor in Home Assistant with the Bluetooth ID: espresense.com/home_assistant
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**Update** I used this to automate my smart thermostat: th-cam.com/video/snVQHsnG_V4/w-d-xo.html
Tip: use the IRK for Apple devices. Yes it can work without it but the IRK method is way more accurate.
For Apple watch: espresense.com/beacons/apple
For iPhone: community.home-assistant.io/t/espresense-device-id-how-to-get-them/403018/15
How long is the delay? Without irk there is maybe a 5seg delay.. The irk is not working for me..
I had a hard time with this a few months back. My Apple Watch kept changing Bluetooth id names. Did they fix that?
Have you adapted this device to have your audio follow you from room to room?
Love this channel. I've been learning and playing with esp32's for a few weeks now. Definitely something everyone should look into.
Hey, been watching your videos for many years now, you have helped me and my wife with some simple things we’ve done in our home, but I have a very interesting twist that might also help create content for your channels. I am totally blind and trying to create a blind friendly, smart home. Would love it if we could connect and speak more about it.
Hey Ricky thanks for watching over the years! That is an interesting twist and that would be great to connect. Hit me up on email.
We put an ESPresense in each room, and a tile tracker on both our cats. Added some fun automations like if an extrior door is open for too long, the assistant speakers will announce their last location. Took a bit of time to figure out the right settings, but its been great!
Did you use an AirTag?
@@DustyAfhe used a Tile (it’s like an AirTag)
I used to use ESPresense a lot, but recently it just can’t handle the amount of BLE devices in my neighborhood. Even when upgrading to ESP32s with more memory, I get reboot loops from it crashing. I just got some more of the ROVERs that have more memory on board, and I hope that will help. I love the project and miss having detection in my office.
Thanks for reminding me to give these another go. Stuck them all over more than a year ago but never bothered to tweek the absortion. Working really good with my galaxy watch 4 and HA app.
I may try this with our princess cruise medallion. Their medallion class ships have something like this where you can use their app and find your family anywhere on the ship! It will even guide you to them google maps style.
Thank you Reed, I'm gonna work on this over the weekend.
What about setting off an alarm when the presence of an *unknown* Bluetooth device is detected?
What if an intruder is creeping around your ground floor windows or the patio door? You could set the range to a meter or so and it would alert you that someone is looking in or actually breaking in.
Add a mm wave detector to increase the odds on your side (in case the intruder does not have any BT device on them).
Just make sure you never have friends over or anyone watching your house lol
If they are supposed to be there then you just ignore the alerts. It sounds like a nice addition to security@@StevoDesign
Just throwing it out there. Currently, I'm using ESPhome and have installed motion sensors in various locations within my home, backyard, and garage. I have three ESP8266s running smoothly under HA/ESPhome, which effectively report back whenever motion is detected.
My objective is to create a central ESP8266, to which all the motion sensors can communicate. I plan to attach a circuit board with LEDs to this central ESP8266, allowing the LEDs to illuminate based on the specific location where motion was detected around the home.
Possible? Don't want to use Arduino solutions as I am only running Home Assistant and ESPhome.
Try using Wifi signal instead of bluetooth. By monitoring the relative signal strenght you get a pretty decent sensor.
Cool! Thanks Reed.
Ali Xpress has inexpensive ble tags. I affixed one to each of my bins and have an esp in the garage that picks them up. Reminds me if I forget to put them out, get the recycling fortnights mixed up or forget to bring them in.
There's also a build you can add extra sensors so you can measure light in the room, temps etc. With the same device
If you don't mind, what's the build for extra plugins like light sensors? Thanks
Does anyone know if this can be used to just "sense" a BT device in a room indifferent of the address? im just more interested in knowing if a BT device is in a given room than to who or what its connected to, the reason being is one such BT device is a blood glucose transmitter, and that hardware address will change every time the transmitter expires and is replaced, so hard-coding a specific ID will only work for short periods of time.. why I was asking if its possible to just generically detect any BT device near by without needing a hardware address ..
Now that you have done that, you need to do the companion. Draw your home and watch items move around. Really cool to put a sensor on the dog and watch them move around the house during the day.
Does this work with multiple people/devices in the same room?
New to the field. Thought about getting the new aqara presence but would love an alternative. I’m on HomeKit, wondering could this be done on homebridge? is there a millimeter solution for HomeKit/homebridge that you know of?
Thank you for sharing. Not sure if I want to take on this but do appreciate that I could if I wanted to. Motion sensors are working fine for now but we will see what future brings
yes want to see those setups for automations
I wish esphome could do this...
This is great. Definitely will try it out. What recommendations to keep it powered on?
Brilliant - thanks!
Does it also work with other smart watches like my Garmin forerunner245 ? Its has Bluetooth connection to my phone?
And do you have a video with the cheapest way to get(hardware)to run Home Assistant? Because raspberry pi's aren't available (sadly)
How do you keep them boards up and running for long period of time? I found the ESP not to be that reliable over wifi. What is your experience? Did you apply any fancy changes / settings?
Hi Reed, Can you please give a couple examples of automations. Possibly where two or more people in a room and one of more leave but light stays on until room is empty. Thanks mate.
What does it add? If it does not de Lights?
Reed, the HA cards you show on your video, can you explain more about them?
This was genuinely helpful. I used ESP32 with Arduino with Bluetooth BLE iBeacon (BC021-MultiBeacon) for car detection.
Could you use an apple tracker instead of an iphone or apple watch? Does this routine work for family members when your not home?
I am very interested in exploring these, but what is the real cost for deploying these 'everywhere'? Each location will need an ESP, a case (not all of us can 3D print and those that can have filament costs), and a power supply. Looks to be ~$15 per location? Still do-able foe me who only wants ~5 or 6.
Txs for yet another great video. Im just at the beginning of presence detection and have mmWave. I love the simplicity of this of only ot was quicker. Entering a room turn on the light won't work. Wonder why ot takes seconds to register.
Secondly goven this is person specific how would you register tje whole family?
I appreciate it Thomas! The speed of it just comes with the nature of bluetooth and how often it communicates with the devices.
You can register multiple devices. So I have my Apple watch, iPhone and my wife's iPhone. Then if someone is in the room and it doesn't have one of those I know it's my kids or Luna. Even though I might put on one Luna too.
I can't believe how good you are. Thank you for making these videos!
I think we will see great progress in the near future. There is software and tech out there, that can do this kinda stuff waaaay better. If you connect all the sensors you can detect at what exact point in a room are.
Can this detect any Bluetooth device as opposed to registering a specific one?
Good video! Thanks
I think I still prefer the mmwave consider you don't need BT attached to you all the time.
2:40 Hello, I thought motion detection could be useful for security when sleeping, if someone breaks into the house or a room? What would be best, as I've seen thingies like esp, Aqara, motion sensors, millimetre wave. The esp delay would be too slow in a dangerous situation.
Did you find something useful?:)
Where did you buy the cases? I went to the link, but nowhere to buy it from?
It would be nice to be able to flash it on to an EP1.
I prefer the LD2410 mmWave sensors (about $7.00 USD on a test board for powering it on aliexpress) along with aome Enclosures (5 total) for about 3.50 USD. This way you don't need a 3D printer to print an enclosure and you don't have to wear or carry any kind of electronic device such as a watch or phone. Works great with no problems.
@@wojtek-33 don't care who it is really just need to know when someone enters a certain area and more importantly when everyone leaves a room or area. The later is where mmWave really shines.
@@wojtek-33 True but then i never said it was either 😃
How did you set your one up ? my sensors after a few hours or day just start doing false positives. im planning on trying to fix it next week when only i will be home
@@Ben-ou6cg if your using a Bluetooth proxy device like a esp32 then yes there is a bug that makes them go unavailable after a time. They are working on that problem i understand. One of mine is going through a Bluetooth proxy and does this. Reloading the integration for it makes it work again for a time, so i created a automation that when the sensor goes unavailable it forces a reload of the integration. I know this isn't ideal but it works until they can fix it. 😁
@@Ben-ou6cg Also i don't use this sensor to trigger the light to turn on, I use another sensor, either a door sensor if the room only has one exit/entrance or a standard PIR motion sensor. You can also configure the sensor to trigger when you want. Their is a program on the net that you can use to do this.
Reed, can you do a how to on your other channel? Stay cool in our AZ heat this weekend!
I just got the chips. Do you have a more detailed guide on setting it up?
Any chance you could post the yaml for the dashboard?
🤔 would it also work with Tile? Or other devices
Looks really close to BLE Beacons
Still waiting for the scenario when even though you are connected to more than one of these sensors, it just shows your presence to the nearest one. From what you explained, it has to switch from one device to another.
That seems easy to fix though as the sensors report out range to device so just prefer the closer one or set a latch on your automations (don't trigger others until more than 3m away from current sensor etc).
Doable just more logic
I'd love to set this up but the biggest issue I have is the looks.. Is there a case, cable, power combo that doesn't look so DIY? I'd love something as low-profile and 'one piece' as possible to look as though I just plugged a thing into the wall similar to a zigbee or zwave range extender, rather than a wall wart, usb cable, esp32.
I haven't tried these myself but another person commented about it shop.m5stack.com/products/atom-lite-esp32-development-kit seems like a good fit since it comes with case already and is really small.
Is there a way of doing room presence that doesn't involve MQTT?
I prefer to use the M5 Stack Atoms for this application as you can stick it directly to a small usb charger like those 5w iphone charger that most people already have laying around.
Even M5 stamps work. They are even smaller with USBC. I use them for this.
Great video as always, Reed!
Although, I'm curious... Are you planning to use the ESPresence in conjunction WITH the Aqara FP2s? I'm setting up my FP2s now, and your ESPresence videos now has me thinking of running both!
Thanks! ESPresense will be an extra layer of customization for automations on top of using mmWave with the FP2.
@@reedssmarthome nice, that makes perfect sense! Thanks for the reply, man, and looking forward to seeing how you tie everything together!
Possible to use ESPresense AND Home Assistant BLE Proxy on a single ESP32?
How do you track your kids’ presence around the house? Kids that are too young to have electronic device of their own.
I'm not sure since when you flash Espresense it erases the board. Maybe there's a way that I don't know about though.
This might have been asked, but where can I purchase the cases for the ESP32's?
I always thought ESPresense would be able to combine the data of multiple sensors. I wanted to use it as an add on to the alarm.
It seemed to me, too, that it would be possible to use information from several sensors, and, for example, calculate with triangulation or triliteration additional information, and thus increase the precision and capabilities of the system.
Hey Reed, nice video. Like your bar stools..can you share make/model/purchase site info? Thanks.
Thanks, www.afw.com/bourbon-30-swivel-barstool-with-back
Is there a way to get faster response? Or is it just something like BT beacon intervals
Reed- Doesn't the BT MAC change in Apple Watches? I thought that was an issue when I looked into doing this previously. Have you had any issues with it?
So far it hasn't been an issue. But if it ever does, there are guides to use the IRK number which I don't think changes. espresense.com/beacons/apple
community.home-assistant.io/t/espresense-device-id-how-to-get-them/403018/15?u=gwp1
@@reedssmarthome You're the coolest.
Completely new to these, and just realized I got ESP8266 instead of ESP32's, can these do the same thing? Did just order some also though.
Problem with ESPresence is that it doesn't really work for guests. You need millimeter-wave or something similar to have "real" room presence detection. But that is alot more expensive.
Oh that sucks 😂 or what if you just don't want to walk around with a smartwatch?
Nice one! Be good to add this to the current sensors that I've got, a couple questions though:
1. Can this feature be added to an existing esphome? (Just by adding some lines in the yaml for example)
2. Can this be done on an esp8266 or D1 wemo mini?
Thanks
Esp8266 doesnt have BT.
Im not an expert but I have added BT proxy to Lewis’ Everything Presence One and they work great.
I don't think you can add it to an existing esphome right now. I need to look into that more because I don't want multiple esp32 in every room.
@@reedssmarthomemy point exactly. I don't really have 2 of esp32s in every room as I've already got them as multisensors cum ble proxy
is there any way to add a passcode protection to cards or pages in home assistant?
I'm excited to apply these to track my cat. She loves finding new hiding spots, it would be nice to just know which room she is in.
Haha that would be a good use case!
First thing that popped into my mind was track the cats
Bluetooth cat collar? I like it.
which tracker are you usign for that?
Do air tags work with ESPresence? If so, it looks like there are a bunch of collars with air tags on them 🙂
Hey reed, i have some espresence sensors too, but i seem to have neglected them, because i couldnt really figure out how to use the ibeacon tracking for automations, can you make a video on this?
Sure thing!
Not smart enough for this and don’t have the time to learn it, but looks super cool. Maybe one day… or maybe it’ll just be included in stuff by the time I get around it to it, lol.
Hey, I love your videos so much. The only issue for me it is that the wifi on my ESP32 keeps deconnecting, so I can't complete the configuration😔 I don't know what to do🤣
Hi the youtube is great, can you add some example automation, demonstrate how to do them?
How does this work across multiple floors? Will the max range help with vertical distance if I have a sensor in a room on a main floor and a different one in the room above it?
The max range will for sure help with that. I only have one story but there are also more settings to configure for Espresense to fine tune it even more. espresense.com/configuration/settings#calibration
Which 3D printer do you use?
So you need to have MQTT up and running for this to work?
Do you know a good I depth MQTT walk through? I’ve tried looking at it before but so much just doesn’t make sense.
Yes you need MQTT up and running. It's been a while since I set mine up but I think I watched Lewis th-cam.com/video/dqTn-Gk4Qeo/w-d-xo.html
MQTT can be difficult to wrap my head around. Basically it's a protocol or a way for the machines to talk to each other.
This is my second time trying this today after seeing your video and for whatever reason I can not get my Apple Watch connected to mqtt I have no idea what I’m missing. I found the irk and everything but nothing shows up I tried messing with config files but I just get errors and when I don’t get errors it dosent work! Ahhh! This stuff can be so frustrating at times.
Do you plan on putting a Tile on Luna?
step 1 : get an apple watch
You can use your phone or a cheaper smart watch
@@kakashi0kyuubibecause your phone is always with you, and always charged, especially when you're in a towel. Oh, and guests... Sorry this is trash
@@kakashi0kyuubi yes I didn't knew that
@@BGraves 😂😂
No.
This is cool. What I am also interested in is using an ESP32 for motion detection, so it activates when someone comes into a room.
Can you do this with Amazon Alexa?
I have a far out idea if this could be used to turn lights on etc, put one waterproof case out at the gate so it knows you are home and like activates lights etc for you getting in to the house?
I really wish Espresense worked with ESP Home, would love for it to just run on my EP1s without having to have a separate ESP32 in each room.
I made these a couple of months back. After having tweaked the distances it works amazingly :D
If you are using multiple phones or watches I can recommend pairing with the esp32 base stations for a 100% unique ID :)
Great tip, thanks!
That's pretty cool but does it suck the watch battery?
Do you have a recommendation for laundry machine use detection? Vibration sensor? Power detection for both 120 and 240 volts?
Use a smart plug(unless you have laundry machine plugged into 240V???(I'm Polish so in Europe this is pretty normal because 240V is standard and something about 400V is high voltage))
Most smart plugs can detect real time wattage so you can do something like this:
IF 'laundry machine' WATTAGE > 5(sample error + lights/screen)
Say start a timer for 1h
Say 'laundry machine completed cycle.'
Tried many ways, wash cycles were wildly varied. I've had 100% accuracy using a photoresistor hotglued to done led.
I suggest the irk method for apple devices, old method does not guarantee unique ids, thus wrong reporting
BTW, the Raspberry Pi device with the installed Home Assistant also has bluetooth and also should be suitable to be used for that..
Great idea.. cannot get it working but great idea. I get firmware installed but after that nothing else works as it should according to instructions...
I had the same experience. I added the wifi, and even though it says it's not able to connect, I see it show up on my network w/ a new IP address. From there, it won't join Home Assistant. I can see in the logs where it detects my watch when I get close to it, but without being added to Home Assistant, it's all for naught
@@MacDork suddenly is just working lol
@@TheCowboysdude lol ty
@@MacDork I'll take it lol
I would be so cool if this was possible with the current ZigBee devices, no extra esp module and extra power supply headache
Any thoughts as to why I would only have RGB solids? No color blending and no white? Running ws8215 light strips and wled on an esp8266 board
It turns out it was a power issue. Powering 5 meters of 8215 from my USB apparently does not give enough juice to run white. Once I added a power supply everything looks great.
Any recommendation for a beacon?
Why yes. This uses the METRIC system!
I want to control my a/v and any IR/RF devices for each room, please make a video with a how-to
Does it work with Homeseer? Is the setup the same? Love your videos!
I'm not sure but you might be able to get it to work. You would need to get MQTT working and it seems like some people have done that forums.homeseer.com/forum/homeseer-products-services/general-discussion-area/99336-homeseer-mqtt-plugin
Then you would need to figure out how to make a custom sensor for your watch or phone's bluetooth to track it.
It will work with HomeSeer is your are running one of the MQTT plugins such as mcsMQTT.
So Reed, I know you synced or used your watch. Do you have to put every bluetooth device up to the unit to learn all the different people so it will know who is in the room?
Hi , I saw this on their website : An Apple Watch cannot be paired with Bluetooth to the ESPresense instance. You have to extract the IRK from iCloud with the Apple Keychain application on MacOS., I don’t have a Mac computer, does my apple watch still works as a ble tracker device? Thanks 🙏🏻
Mine has been working without getting the IRK. That could change if the bluetooth gets randomized from Apple and I plan on adding the IRK soon. But if you don't have lots of Apple devices in your house you might be able to get away with it.
@@reedssmarthome thanks
Do you know what type of bluetooth it works with? I think there is bluetooth classic and LTE? My hearing aids have bluetooth classic. That would be cool to not have to carry my phone everywhere, and the hearing aids just make it work.
I think it's the low energy bluetooth. But it might work with the classic one and that would be pretty sweet if it did work with those!
You can make a hot and cold thing with lights when you're looking for things. "Find my phone" all lights are blue until you get closer to yellow lights and red lights for where it is...
Does this work with any Bluetooth device? Maybe like a Fitbit tracker?
Also what are the battery effects to you Apple Watch if it keeps connecting to these devices I’d expect it would have some sort of effect.
Wonder if there’s any other Bluetooth devices that could do work standalone so it’s not a battery drain issue.
Technically any Bluetooth enabled device should work. You mean Stand alone as in Bluetooth speakers or similar? What will be benefit of that? He is trying to bridge a gap where the Motion sensors have today. If you are standstill like reading or sleeping the motion sensors will switch off the devices. By combining with this presence detection you can keep it on.
Cool!
I believe it's also possible with esphome, no? Using esphome it is a bit easier to manage all devices.
I would also be interested to learn more about tracking BLE devices with ESPhome. I played around with it a little, but I didn't manage to track my Apple watch.
I'm wondering how well this works in a 2-story home. Trying to cover a 20'x20' livingroom upstairs without also getting the space below seems challenging...
What app does he have on his phone?
How does this compare to your old solution with the pi zero w?
I was just thinking the same thing. What happened to a Room Assistant
Can you explain some uses for this? I'm not understanding.
You can turn on/off devices like lamps, ac, fan, play music, turn on coffee machine, etc
Very cool Reed. How can we use this in combination with mmWave sensors? This one is slow to respond, but it is individual specific. The mmWave sensor doesn't care who, but it's quicker. Any ideas on using both together? I guess mmWave for things like music, but ESPresence for music, etc.
Yes automation videos coming soon!
Great video! Really wanted to try it but too bad I don't have a 3D printer. Been planning to use something like this for my cat but I got a bad feeling once he sees this bare -- he will chew or it! LOL. Anyone knows where we can buy an already printed case for the 30p version?
I haven't tried it but someone suggested a smaller version that has a case already. Seems promising shop.m5stack.com/products/atom-lite-esp32-development-kit
@@reedssmarthome Thanks will check it out!
One possible issue I see with this is people with a basement. I am thinking about taking the dive with mmw device.
I use this for a few week
It works surprisingly well...most of the time. ;-)