bt_proximity_monitor

Watch whether bt devices (your phone, etc) is in ranged or not and do something.

Dependency

hcitool / rfcomm (default)
l2ping (if specified -d l2ping)
- Please pair by rfcomm connection with your iPhone in advance. After that, your iPhone will ack by the l2ping.
ruby (confirmed on 2.2 but other versions should be fine too)
Confirmed OS is Ubuntu Mate 16.04 LTS on Raspberry Pi3 but others should be fine too.

You can set target device

./bt_proximity_monitor.rb -t 70:EC:E4:XX:XX:XX

70:EC:E4:XX:XX:XX iPhone1
70:EC:E4:XX:XX:XY iPhone2

You can set time schedule rules flexibly

You can specify when is needed to take action by specific date, week and time duration. You can specify execution commands at initialization(onStart)/termination(onEnd)/device proximiy(onConnected/onDisconnected).

[13:30-23:30 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun]
#onStart
echo "blub On"
bleBulbDriver.rb allOn
#onEnd
bleBulbDriver.rb allOff
#onConnected
bleBulbDriver.rb allOff
#onConnected if iPhone1
echo "Found iPhone1"
#onDisconnected if 3 times
bleBulbDriver.rb allOn

[2017-01-01 03:00-03:26 (random:1hour)]
#onStart
bleBulbDriver.rb allOn
#onEnd
bleBulbDriver.rb allOff
#onConnected
bleBulbDriver.rb allOff
#onDisconnected
bleBulbDriver.rb allOn

You can specify randomization as (random:30min), (random:1hour), etc in the condition field.

[16:30-23:30 Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun (random:30min)]
[2017-01-01 03:00-03:26 (random:1hour)]

To execute this as service (on Ubuntu)

$ sudo ./install.sh

The ruby file is stored under /opt
The configuration files are stored under /var/opt/btproximity

Recommended detection

Establish BT connection with rfcomm first.

./bt_proximity_monitor.rb -t 70:EC:E4:XX:XX:XX

And please accept the pairing from the running device to your iPhone, etc. on your iPhone.

Use BT Proximity detection with l2ping

./bt_proximity_monitor.rb -t 70:EC:E4:XX:XX:XX -d l2ping