I want to build a house-positioning system, but time, energy, and skill are lacking.
My wife, who has pretty extreme ADD, loses stuff like her wallet, keys, etc. We have Tiles on most stuff that gets lost, but sometimes the volume of the alert is lacking. I'd like something that uses multiple ESP32 or Pi receivers in known locations to triangulate the position of the bluetooth beacon in 3D space.
It's probably a bad idea, there might not be accurate enough timings or data to pinpoint the location. I've read somewhere that UWB will be much better at this.
EDIT: Another project idea: Sensor Light Switches. Would add sensors like occupancy, noise, pressure, temp, etc etc to the standard light switch plate/box. Then have that lovely data slurped up by something pretty to display it all.
I've put a bunch of rPI zeroes throughout the house with varying degrees of success. Works best with the home assistant beacon on my Galaxy watch, it's likely tile tags will work better.
The only downside is that the PIs require an external Bluetooth dongle hooked with a USB extender, because of wifi interference.
I used raspberry so I can use room-assistant for home assistant. You could probably hack it up with a bunch of ESPs and a central server to aggregate it all. Then trilateration should be fairly simple.
My wife, who has pretty extreme ADD, loses stuff like her wallet, keys, etc. We have Tiles on most stuff that gets lost, but sometimes the volume of the alert is lacking. I'd like something that uses multiple ESP32 or Pi receivers in known locations to triangulate the position of the bluetooth beacon in 3D space.
It's probably a bad idea, there might not be accurate enough timings or data to pinpoint the location. I've read somewhere that UWB will be much better at this.
EDIT: Another project idea: Sensor Light Switches. Would add sensors like occupancy, noise, pressure, temp, etc etc to the standard light switch plate/box. Then have that lovely data slurped up by something pretty to display it all.