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Location in a certain room

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 17:18
by angelatwork
I think I have seen the possibility to locate where you are in your home somewhere.. Is it possible with automagic? I work part time from home. Usually I am in a specific room when I work. I wonder if I can make automagic realize when I am in my working room and use it as a trigger to start some flows?

Best regards AngelAtwOrk

Re: Location in a certain room

Posted: 11 Mar 2014 18:06
by MURTUMA
That might be hard to achieve. With wifi you can onlyddetect whether you're connected or not and somewhat unreliably the strength or the connection. Depending on your house layout and wifi setup that could work to some extent.

Cell network is obviously out of question and I think GPS is too inaccurate in such small space especially indoors.

NFC tag might be your best bet here if your phone supports it. However, it requires you to put your phone near it so depending on your situation it might be too out of question.

Re: Location in a certain room

Posted: 12 Mar 2014 12:17
by angelatwork
Thank you, NFC might be a good solution. Why did I not think of that since I use it for driving car flows :-).

I should also further try to find the information how they accomplished showing the person's position on a map of a house and moving in a room. If you can catch that you ought to be able to use it some how. I will post again if I find the information again and it is useful