{"id":15355,"date":"2016-08-27T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15355"},"modified":"2016-08-27T09:57:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T08:57:09","slug":"find-out-whos-at-home-or-in-the-office-by-using-a-raspberry-pi-and-initial-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15355","title":{"rendered":"Find out who&#8217;s at home or in the office by using a Raspberry Pi and Initial State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.initialstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/PiPresenceMain.png?resize=560%2C279\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rachel Gregory, over at IoT company Initial State, has just published an excellent tutorial that takes you through the steps required to write a &#8220;who&#8217;s at home\/who&#8217;s in the office&#8221; service. The tutorial uses a Raspberry Pi Zero (any Pi will work) to detect devices connected to a wifi network. It then\u00a0does a look-up against lists of people and MAC addresses to determine who is connected. The results are streamed to Initial State where a dashboard is created. It&#8217;s an excellent example of using services, scripting and programming together and while it&#8217;s not perfect &#8211; what happens if someone forgets their phone? &#8211; it&#8217;s a cool little Internet of Things project.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/initialstate\/pi-sensor-free-presence-detector\" target=\"_blank\">Take a look at the tutorial here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Gregory, over at IoT company Initial State, has just published an excellent tutorial that takes you through the steps required to write a &#8220;who&#8217;s at home\/who&#8217;s in the office&#8221; service. 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