How I know I am home

[Jeff Wooding]

George why don't you just use RFID a small card in your wallet or slipped
in your iPhone case between the phone and case will work. Or you can put a
garage door opener connected via XBee  the button of the xbee will notify
XTension (whatever you are trying to do??Alarm!!??) and then open the
garage door. I think your solution to this always working never touching
I'm home solution is to optimistic. I don't rely on this system of home
presence as a bullet proof system(just a connivence) but I think if you are
looking at it in a stand point of it is absolutely necessary there will
always be holes or better yet delays. Another solution that I'm using is
Launch Center Pro on the iPhone it has been 100% reliable for me at
least. But I use Geofency and it has been working 100% for my wife, but we
don't need it to work 100% so our expectations are not crushed.

Thanks,
Jeff

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 7:24 AM, George Handley <ghandley at kc.rr.com
<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ghandley at kc.rr.com');>> wrote:

> Rich,
>
> Your entirely different way of doing this needed job intrigues me, as well
> as being very clever.
>
> I would like to know, however, exactly how responsive your system works,
> as I had some discouraging results yesterday with Geohoppy after the
> previous day’s total successes.
>
> Specifically, there have been a few times over the years I’ve noticed that
> when I first use my phone at home, even a few times after I’ve been home
> for almost an hour, that it will start out in LTE, 3G or 4G, and not WIFI
> from either our Airport Express used here for guests, or our AT&T M-Cell (A
> mini cell tower with satellite and internet, [Time Warner] access) we have
> for our phones for best reception.
>
> I need a foolproof system to know whether my wife or I or both of us are
> arriving at home, and I need to know it BEFORE the garage door is opened
> upon arrival. Geo tags on a set of keys is not a solution.
>
> I just ran a discouraging test in that I merely walked down our street
> three houses watching how fast I would lose our WIFI, and it only took two
> homes. Even worse than that, as I watched it on the way back, it didn’t
> revert to our WIFI until I literally was touching the front door knob.
>
> I’m going to assume your’s has to work the same way, but I hope I’m wrong,
> and will sure look forward to your reply.
>
> Thanks,
>
> George
>
> PS I’ve got it! I just contact the NSA to have chips implanted under our
> skin! :-)
>
>
> On Jun 3, 2015, at 6:02 PM, rnaleonard <rnaleonard at rcn.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','rnaleonard at rcn.com');>> wrote:
>
> When there is motion in selected outside areas like the driveway, and if
> we are not home, then an external script runs.  This script checks the ARP
> entries for our phones.  If either is found, the necessary incantations to
> update XTension to at home status are issued.  My guess is that since the
> phone(s) have just arrived and are switching from cellular to wi-fi, the
> ARP tables update immediately.  We choose not to let the system determine
> when we are not home.  We have a separate process for that.  Here is the
> external script (with personal identification elements removed and
> described inside [ ] ).  Run the shell script to get the exact entries for
> your phones. Works every time for us.  YMMV.  The advantage is that there
> is no external web service or app involved.
>
> *on* arpcheck()
> *set* theMsg *to* ""
> *repeat* *with* theCount *from* 1 *to* 60
> *set* theResult *to* *do shell script* "arp -a"
> *if* theResult *contains* "? ([Assigned IP for phone 1]) at [MAC address
> for phone 1] on en0 ifscope [ethernet]" *then*
> *set* theMsg *to* "Phone 1 "
> *end* *if*
> *if* theResult *contains* "? ([Assigned IP address for phone 2]) at [MAC
> address for phone 2] on en0 ifscope [ethernet]" *then*
> *set* theMsg *to* theMsg & "Phone 2 "
> *end* *if*
> *if* theMsg *is* "" *then*
> *set* theCount *to* theCount + 1
> *delay* 1
> *else*
> *exit* *repeat*
> *end* *if*
> *end* *repeat*
>
>
> *tell* *application* "XTension"
> *write log* "Checking for iPhones"
> *if* theMsg *is* *not* "" *then*
> *set* theMsg *to* theMsg & ": At Home"
> [do things here to turn on your at home status]
> *else*
> *set* theMsg *to* "No iPhones are home"
> *end* *if*
> *write log* "" & theCount & ": " & theMsg & return & theResult
> *end* *tell*
>
>  *set* theMsg *to* ""
> *set* theResult *to* ""
> *end* arpcheck
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