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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 10 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Device-free passive localization has been around for over 15 years.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/0908.0893

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

So when's it gonna be in Home Assistant?

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The idea of DfP has been around for over 15 years but its only recently become possible outside of a laboratory environment. It isn't in HA yet because no one has bothered to write a module for it and there's almost no WiFi gear that supports it; either natively or through exposing the data necessary to make it work.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Hmm, maybe they need to build it into OpenWRT first, then.

Either way, the bottom line is that it's completely unacceptable to exist as a feature unless it's 100% Free Software and running 100% locally.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

It relies on AI to map the environment. I highly doubt Verizon’s will be running locally, and I’m positive it’s not fitting in firmware ROM.