Laptop Bluetooth proximity

[Soda97]

My laptop has Bluetooth and is in my family room so instead of getting an ibeacon, is there any program that I can get proximity with my phone also work with voxcommando so when I walk in the room it will turn on the light and off when I out of the room?


Thanks.

[jitterjames]

I don't know about this.  Maybe someone else has an idea.

I believe you can use Tasker on Android to trigger events based on wifi and bluetooth connection events, but I don't think this will work for proximity.

[Soda97]

O I don't have android.

I just thought its kind of cool if it can go on and off by itself and only detected by me as well.

[Haddood]

if your laptop is MAC .. you can add BLE BT4.0 dongle at less than 5$ on ebay if it is old... if new mac you can turn it into BLE beacon with some tweaking

if your laptop is windows based, try http://btprox.sourceforge.net/

it will unlock the laptop as well ... then you have 2 choices ...

• turn on lights automatically using the program to run vc.exe with eventtrigger & paylaod (refer to wiki) but that will not turn of lights... you will have to do it manually
• call vc.exe with vc.exe with eventtrigger & payload using windows task scheduler, on based on unlock, and another when laptop lock ... , this will work if you unlock/lock your laptop manually as well

the thing I hate about BT between phone and PC is the phone will default to answer on PC !!!

[Soda97]

But when the laptop locks, VC will stop working and I can't issue any command.  I have another mic in the kitchen...

[Haddood]

as far as I Know locking the PC do not stop VC ... there was a discussion about this somewhere in the forum look for headless PC ... However, logging off will stop VC

[jitterjames]

You can't use VoxCommando when your PC is locked.

[Haddood]

  it is true VC stops .. that is why we discussed in that thread a way to log in locally after disconnecting from RDP ...
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