Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing

grue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Manalith@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  One of my gf’s friends went through a pretty nasty breakup, moved and whatnot and most of her friend group were trying to make sure that the ex and his friends didn’t have their location anymore and I’m just sitting here like “its wild that you have to go through that” well a couple weeks later 3 of her tires were stabbed with a screw driver or something, and while there’s no concrete evidence that they learned where she moved, I’m still over here trying to get them all to be more conscious about online privacy and location sharing, but nothing works…

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• Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yeah we use it with home assistant, and Bluetooth beacons to turn on the garden lights when we get home, and turn on interior lights if neither of us are marked as home. Also turn on the electric blanket if we are out and heading towards home after 9pm. Also the person detection camera only alerts us if we aren’t home.

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  • deafboy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Also turn on the electric blanket if we are out and heading towards home after 9pm

    Make sure it defaults to OFF after power loss. My colleague had a close call when the smart plug with the infra panel plugged in decided to turn on after the power outage.

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    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes we have several of the AthomTech ones that ship with Esphome. There’s a power loss setting on them “on, off, as before”

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  • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Would you mind sharing your automation yaml for the garden lights? I’d love to do more with Bluetooth beacons but don’t know enough about how they work to do anything with them.

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    • Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      We have it hidden in the letterbox. The mobile app has a Bluetooth beacon setting where you can have it report either specified beacons to HA, or all of them and you can filter for the ones you want at that end.

      The automation looks for the beacon to be reported from either of 2 devices and then switches the lights on, quite basic.

      We have a separate automation that turns the scanning for beacons setting in the phone app on at dusk and off at 3am. And another that turns the garden lights off after 10 min triggered by them being switched on

      description: ""
      mode: single
      triggers:
        - value_template: >-
            {{ state_attr('sensor.phone1_beacon_monitor',
            'b5b182c7-eab1-4988-aa99-bd9_1_2') != None  }}
          trigger: template
        - value_template: >-
            {{ state_attr('sensor.phone2_beacon_monitor',
            'b5b182c7-eab1-4988-aa99-bd9_1_2') != None  }}
          trigger: template
      conditions: []
      actions:
        - data: {}
          target:
            entity_id:
              - switch.garden_lights
              - switch.deck_light_table
              - switch.deck_light_bbq
          action: switch.turn_on
        - event: beaconDetected
          event_data: {}
        - if:
            - condition: numeric_state
              entity_id: zone.home
              below: 1
          then:
            - data: {}
              target:
                device_id:
                  - b5c12ce8343fda7810b69c24f
                  - a71515f86d7d34ef570acbe8
              action: light.turn_on
      

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• Kr4u7@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  When you get back to that project: I used this project here. Mainly for myself tho.

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• cole@lemdro.id ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You don’t need anything other than home assistant though, right? the companion apps already just do that

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well, I need a reverse proxy or VPN or something so that the phones can connect to my Home Assistant server from outside the LAN. That’s the main thing I haven’t gotten done yet.

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    • cole@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      ah. tailscale is great for that. I personally just leave my home assistant exposed behind a reverse proxy

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• Count042@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hauk

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