iPhone Ping-Plugin

kellermaaan

Hi,

what is the best way to use the Ping-Plugin to Ping an iPhone? After some seconds pimatic shows all the time absent but my iPhone is in the network. Only when i use my iPhone it is present…

Best regards

Christopher täufert

this is due to the fact, that your iPhone tunrs your wifi off to save power. when you want to ping your iPhone your have to start with a hping3 to wake your iPhones wifi and then you can ping it. This shouldn’t be done to often due to battery issues. Another Way would be using ownTracks on your iPhone and define a zone with the owntracks MQTT Plugin in pimatic to se if you are present or not. This has the effect, that your are also able to detect if you are home or not when you have turn down your wifi.

kellermaaan

Thank you, I will try it with the hping3…