Wifi switches for phones

[rednas]

Hello,

I would like to have dummy switches within Domoticz which are on/off whether the phone is connected to the wifi. Every phone should have its own switch.
I already tried it with pinging but the phones turn off the wifi (or just don't respond to the ping command) when the screen is turned off (both androids and iphones do this).
The second thing I tried was by using an IFTTT trigger after (dis)connecting to the wifi. This worked like a charm, BUT this is not possible with iphones. IFTTT does not provide a trigger for an iphone (dis)connecting to Wifi.
Can I do this in another way?

Thanks in advance!

[alfred_j_kwak]

http://www.domoticz.com/forum/viewtopic ... 784#p55784

[rednas]

I don't want to use ping anymore, however I'll give it a try.
I added two ip addresses of phones, but (silly question) where do I find the logs of the ping requests? Can't find anything like a device or something of the logs...

[rednas]

Well I now added 2 dummy switches with the same names as the 2 nodes of the System Alive Checker (guess that's what I have to do?)
These switches are not updated.

Only thing I see in the log is:
2015-12-13 19:48:05.772 Pinger: Worker stopped...
2015-12-13 19:48:05.784 Pinger: Started

And after this I don't see the "Pinger" returning anymore... What am I doing wrong?

[StanHD]

After you add the addresses in the hardware, set Domoticz to accept new devices. (Allow for 5 minutes should do it). Then they show up in the Not Used device list. Add the switch from there by clicking on the Green Arrow.

[rednas]

Thanks, that did the trick! Will try this out.

Someone also knowing a trick to call a HTTP request on (dis)connecting Wifi on an iphone?

[StanHD]

Could you edit the "Off" action of the switch?

[rednas]

I am currently not using the on/off actions.
Isn't it working for you?

[StanHD]

Yes, I have several http commands in switches to overide my Evohome set points when a door or window is opened. Works well.

[rednas]

Alright, well I just want to know whether someone connects or disconnects from the wifi.
The pinging also thinks the phones are disconnected when they are still connected and that's something I don't want to happen..

[Westcott]

Hi StanHD,

I'm trying as well to get this to work.
Two switches are there - (2 devices) Lighting2 AC On/Off
Both shown as Off with no activity at all logged.
The actual devices are connected to my WiFi
Nothing is logged if I disconnect one from WiFi, wait a couple of minutes, and re-connect.

Thanks.

[StanHD]

Hi Westcott,

We have 2 Android phones and 2 smart TVs that we use with this. Each logs totally reliable when connecting / disconnecting. We use the phones for presence detection and the TVs to set lighting scenes. Other users, however, report problems and un-reliable operation. My Domoticz is running under Windows, maybe this is the difference?

[pvm]

It is running reliable on my raspberry pi2

[jannl]

I use a perl script which runs very reliable. 2 androids and one iphone. Only disadvantage is the long time out for iphones, 40 minutes here.

[Westcott]

For those of you who are successfully using Domoticz' Ping - does anything show up in your log?

[StanHD]

Yes when ping response status changes:-

2015-12-14 17:44:16.566 (Ping) Lighting 2 (TV Kitchen)

[Westcott]

Stan, thanks.
Sorry to keep on, but I'm guessing that there is some config difference between our setups.
Like Rednas, all I see is the Ping worker starting, then no more action.
A Lighting2 AC device is added for each of my 3 Ping entries, but is never actually pinged, unlike yours.

[rednas]

I was again searching through my Android Wifi settings and found my ipv4 address greyed out and ipv6 seems active.
When I ping my ipv4 address it does not receive any packages, but it does receive the packages when I ping the ipv6 address.
Could this be the problem everyone is experiencing? How can I solve this?

[rgroothuis]

Another question I'm having on this subject is how to use this pinging information (if it works) in the LUA scripts? Any examples?
I found the device I'm pinging in my device list but I cannot add it to my switches dashboard, is this correct? And because of that I also cannot see the pinging result history, so I cannot tell if my iPhone is ping-ed correctly.

[StanHD]

I have disabled IPv6 on my router for my LAN (not WAN) as this gave me other problems. May be worth a try?