FWG active devices as presence sensors in hubitat home automation hub?

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zach

• December 19, 2021 22:00

Bear with me, I used to dabble in coding and linux and whatnot but haven't for years.

I used to have an Asus router (I think) that would somehow report out to Home Assistant what devices were connected. I could use this info as a kind of Presence sensor to determine if any family members were at home to control lights, door locks, etc.

I'd love to do that same thing in Hubitat with my Firewalla Gold. At this point I haven't done any modifications to it, it's a vanilla out of the box configured FWG in router mode. Any thoughts/guidance? I've been away from it all long enough that I don't even know where to look to know if it's possible, hah.

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  Michael Bierman

  • December 19, 2021 22:21

  You can have Firewalla alert you when a particular device goes on or offline, but I don't know of a way to send that via an API to something like Home Assistant at this time.

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  Robert Eckhoff

  • December 22, 2021 05:37
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  I’m not aware of anything available via Hubitat specific for the Firewalla. I use the “iPhone WiFi Presence Sensor” from Hubitat repository in conjunction with IP Reservations for the devices I'm interested in monitoring for presence. Works very consistently for me. FYI … not specific to sensing iPhones.

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