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Spotlight: Presence Detection

Home Assistant Podcast

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The Bayesian Sensor for Presence

As long as one device is marked as home, then the group will be marked as home. So what happens if your Tesla is at home, but your phone's away? Does that mean you're at home? Like maybe you've just gone for maybe you've taken public transport to work that day. That's where the Bayesian sensor comes in. It deals with probabilities and so the way it works is you take multiple values from sensors. And then you can tell home assistant the probability of how likely it is you are home based on the values of the sensors.

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