I use my phone to start some rules if its present.
The way I did this was to use ping a ip-number.
In the devices it said.
{
"id": "Mobiel Hans",
"name": "Mobiel Hans",
"class": "PingPresence",
"host": "192.168.1.102",
"interval": 5000
},
I have a windows phone (and therefore cannot assign a static ip-number to the phone).
You can guess what happened. My phone got a new ip-number assigned from the dhcp-sever and my rules stopped working.
Probably an open door, but anyhow I am going to kick it.
You also can ping on name!!!
I looked up the name of my phone in the router. It was wp-hans.fritz.box
The new device definition for the phone became.
{
“id”: “Mobiel Hans”,
“name”: “Mobiel Hans”,
“class”: “PingPresence”,
“host”: “wp-hans.fritz.box”,
“interval”: 5000
},
Works like a charm.
So you can check for every network-device as long as you know it name this way. Even if it ip-number is changed.
Greetings Hans
