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Spotlight: Presence Detection

Home Assistant Podcast

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How to Use N-Map to Detect Devices on Your Network

N-Map is a way to send packets across your network and find out which devices are connected. Home Assistant will know that your device is connected if it gets a response from N-Map. With ping, you now need to have a static IP address on the phone. And one of the security methods a lot of people use in public Wi-Fi networks is to not allow static IP addresses.

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