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  • Without having the time right now to dig too deep, I have a few questions:

    1. Does it have any idea of the range at which motion is happening, relative to the distance between nodes or otherwise?

    2. Can it correlate motion with that of another WiFi or Bluetooth device? So if I'm carrying my phone and it can see me moving, can it tell that it's me?

    3. What's the movement -> signal latency?

    by regularfry
  • What dark magic is this! Very cool repurposing of technology. If you don't mind me asking - what's the origin of the name Tommy?
    by dreadsword
  • Could you help me understand the use case for this? I've used PIR and mmWave before. When would you choose tommysense vs some other option.
    by kentt
  • Congrats, this looks like an awesome product! Gonna try setting it up in the next few weeks.

    How is a "zone" configured? I understand that if I have 3+ devices, the zone is essentially the area between them. But what about two devices? I'm assuming the zone isn't just a straight line between them, or maybe it is? What kind of zone configuration can one do in the dashboard?

    by yoavm
  • Congrats on the launch, that looks really cool!

    I had an idea to build a restricted zones for a phone. For example, I can't take my phone to bed, so I wanted to create a esp32 based project that beeps when the phone is too close to some areas. I made it based on BLE, but iphone masks MAC addresses, so it was impossible to track particular devices. No I realize, I could actually do it with WIFI signal straight. How I didn't think about it. Will try again today :D

    by cassettelabs
  • Seems to be based on See through walls by MIT (2013)? Good job porting it to esp32. I was just looking a week ago to do the same thing - basically reproducing this work. I'll definitely try this. https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/seeing-through-walls-comp...
    by shekhar101
  • This is impressive and some of the "coming soon" features are ambitious. So, these devices mesh with each other. Are they like "idle" WiFi connections, or are they chatty? I'm wondering how much spectrum clashing there will be. WiFi can be finicky enough as-is.
    by throitallaway
  • > No hub required - TOMMY runs as a Home Assistant add-on or on a Linux host (Docker) and uses supporting devices to create a sensing network.

    I don't see how either the HA instance or the Linux host can't be viewed as a hub. No hub required feels untrue to me. I assume this question is intended to clarify that some additional device is not necessary, but I think this could be reworded.

    by michaelmior

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