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I missed that piece of information, thanks a lot!
The router polling integration is probably a bit superfluous for devices that have the companion app installed.
Although, it's still helpful for other devices like guests' phones, or non android/ios devices.
Not sure how helpfully to your use case these will be, but a few ideas...
It's been a while since I tinkered, but I think you can also assign multiple devices to a person and track the person's presence instead of a specific device.
You can also create a group of persons, which is handy for some use cases.
As an example, I have a
group.us
which containsperson.me
andperson.mypartner
. The group's status ishome
if either of us are home and only changes to away if neither of us are home.Similarly, I have a
group.guests
which contains guests who sometimes spend the night.If any guests are home, my goodnight automation ignores the bathroom and the guest bedroom lights.
group.guests:
I have an input boolean that changes input_text.manual_guest_tracker to home/not_home if we wanna enable "guests mode" without having to track a device.
Single person with multiple trackers:
person.fren: