Hi, As part of home security automation, I want NR over RasPi to detect presence/absence of family members by presence of their mobile phones in the network. I created a file with list of names and MACs: user1,aa:ab:cd user2,33:22:11 ... I'm trying to create flow, so not much to share at the mom…

Two issues: You are not passing any arguments to the split function, so it won't know how you want to split the string. If the rows in your file are comma-separated, you should use: var kv = msg.payload.split(","); The code people.kv[0] means look up the kv property of the people object, then…

Hi David, For debug purposes I disable autostart and restart of daemon node, kill the ptracker in the shell and run it manually in foreground. This allows me to see all prints and understand a little what happens. For deeper debug, try to ping your phone from the RaspberryPi. Does it respond? a…

Hi, Results are attached. Pinging to my phone only works when the phone is unlocked, otherwise the ping command just waits. I haven't got 'nmap' installed on this particular RPi (I'll do it later). Hope this is helpful Regards, David [image] [image] [image]

Hi David, Yes, this helps. ptracker uses nmap for correlation between MAC and IP. Please, run sudo apt-get install nmap before use of ptracker.py. I added this instruction to the flow description too. As well, I Improved error detection and verbosity in the script itself version ptracker.py 0.5. …

Hi, Tried the things you suggested as well as installing nmap. 'nmap' finds my Android phone. As per attached listing - still do not get any thing via MQTT in. Cheers from David. [image] [image]

Good progress. Hoping you noticed and did this points from the flow description: Install sudo pip install paho-mqtt netaddr on your Linux. Ensure the MQTT broker is up and running on the Linux where the ptracker is intended to run. mosquitto_sub -t "#" & mosquitto_pub -t "my/test/" -m "test me…

How do I kill 'ptracker.py' in the shell? Here's screenshot of running ptracker.py manually in foreground. Cheers from David. [image]

Hi, Hoping you noticed and did this points from the flow description: Install |sudo pip install paho-mqtt netaddr| on your Linux Yep that was done as per you initial instructions. Just checked and got a message saying 'Requirement already satisfied' Ensure the MQTT broker is up and running…

David, you found my bug! Thank you! I fixed it in version 0.5.1 (Bugfix: network config parsing was not enough robust.) Published. Please, give it another try manually.

OK - give me 5-mins and I'll report back

Hi, Looks like SUCCESS - yippppppeeee See attached screenshots. Cheers from David [image] [image]

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Hi,
I've switched the settings back on in the Daemon node.
It now shows it's running.

Cheers from David

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