Marcello Barnaba · Feb 15, 2026
WiFi Presence Detection for Home Assistant Using OpenWrt
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I had two problems with Home Assistant’s presence detection. The first: GPS tells you if someone is home, but not where in the house they are. My home has six OpenWrt access points spread across three floors. They already know exactly which phone is connected to which AP at every moment — that’s room-level presence data, sitting right there in the WiFi stack, screaming to be used.…
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