Re:Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion
by 0cf8612b2e1e on Monday June 30, 2025 @05:29PM
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I am also super interested for the personal use case. What is the resolution? Can I track my cat through the house? See when they go to the feeder? Count my own bathroom visits?
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Re:Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion
by Aurornis on Monday June 30, 2025 @05:34PM
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> What is the resolution? Can I track my cat through the house? See when they go to the feeder? Count my own bathroom visits?
None of the above.
The setup process has you select 3 reference devices. You should pick the devices so that your normal motion areas are between the device and the router.
The router then watches the WiFi signals from those devices. If they fluctuate more than baseline, it's assumed that something is moving around in the area.
It's a threshold detection that can serve as a crude motion sensor for home/away purposes.
Re:Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion
by HeavenFox on Monday June 30, 2025 @06:24PM
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For home / away purposes it's easier to just detect if your phone is connected to the network. I built something like that before by shipping the log from my UniFi controller to a RPi and listen for events where my phone's MAC address connect or disconnnect.
Re:Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion
by TechDebtDevin on Monday June 30, 2025 @11:52PM
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This doesn't really tell you if someone without your wifi password is rummaging through your house while you're not there. Also wifi is not the right tool for this lol
Re:Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion
by account42 on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @10:41AM
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> Also wifi is not the right tool for this lol
Why? It's already there and reliable.
Re:Xfinity using WiFi signals in your house to detect motion
by 0cf8612b2e1e on Monday June 30, 2025 @05:45PM
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Nuts. Less interesting than the claims of monitoring heart rate, but still potentially some applications “for free” if it just needs to analyze signal strength from devices I already have. Theoretically could put it directly onto my OpenWRT router and make it available from there.