As parents of a 12 and 16 year old we have a rather interesting use case. The children have been told not to use electronics while on the toilet. They keep taking their devices on the toilet and sitting there for hours. To give you some idea of the scope of the issue, one night after being ordered out of the toilet after a couple of hours and refusing to do so, we had to wait another three hours for him to sneak out a 1am and have them hand over the mobile phone.
Sometimes we accuse them for no reason (when they don't have it) and other times they are clearly not telling the truth but you can't force your way in or threaten them from outside the door without traumatising them. So we need to a way to trigger a loud alert when a device passes by the door of the toilet or is in the toilet room with them. This will end the problem and after two years of dealing with it, we can hopefully put this one to bed.
I have a few Pi 4's and Arduino Uno clone and proximity sensor domes. My level of expertise is RFID programming of Amiibo's adapting someone else code using on the Uno and running servers on the Pi's doing various tasks. I was think of using Bluetooth signal strength to check for proximity of devices which are iPhones and iPads in this case. Above a certain strength could mean they are close. Otherwise maybe a RFID solution at the door. Be aware my UniFi gateway tells me we have 46 wireless devices connected in this house.
Sometimes we accuse them for no reason (when they don't have it) and other times they are clearly not telling the truth but you can't force your way in or threaten them from outside the door without traumatising them. So we need to a way to trigger a loud alert when a device passes by the door of the toilet or is in the toilet room with them. This will end the problem and after two years of dealing with it, we can hopefully put this one to bed.
I have a few Pi 4's and Arduino Uno clone and proximity sensor domes. My level of expertise is RFID programming of Amiibo's adapting someone else code using on the Uno and running servers on the Pi's doing various tasks. I was think of using Bluetooth signal strength to check for proximity of devices which are iPhones and iPads in this case. Above a certain strength could mean they are close. Otherwise maybe a RFID solution at the door. Be aware my UniFi gateway tells me we have 46 wireless devices connected in this house.
Statistics: Posted by rtfmoz — Thu Feb 13, 2025 1:21 am