Bluetooth proximity sensor

riochicken

Hi all,

Is there a way (I know there are a couple of posts out there but none of them seem to be the answer) to create a bluetooth proximity sensor? It would be great if anybody can help me out here....

Thanks!

Kind regards

Richard

gohan

It depends on what you are looking for :)
Try to be a little more specific about what you expect

riochicken

@gohan

Good point, I expect a proximity sensor which can tell if a bluetooth device with a certain hardware address is in the neighborhood to execute certain scenes within the home automation system...

Thanks!!

gohan

I did some research on a similar setup and from the arduino.cc forum I got suggestion to use HM-10 bluetooth modules that can work with BLE devices (like smart bands, BT tags, etc) and use the "scan" AT command that will return a maximun of 6 mac addresses of the devices in range; with that list you need to parse it in the code and send the addresses one by one to the controller. Besides that I couldn't find anything else and I still didn't buy any modules so far.

riochicken

@gohan

We could use the code as presented in one of the earlier post by Hek to see if that might work... but first I need to order the modules.. :)

gohan

I am ordering one module too. Watch out that the cheap one are clones. From the manufacturer website there is the data sheet with pictures for telling the original from clones together with at commands list