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Thu Jul 26, 2018 7:13 pm
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kw123
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could you share your UNiFi setup
the Answer depends a little on your setup
WiFIAp
gateway
controller
switches
cameras
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in general fingscan and unifi overlap to a large extend. But they both use various methods to check fore devices etc.
finscan actively listens to and traffic from devices (mostly broadcasts are important) -- but only the traffic that comes by the MAC, then it scans the network every minute.
Unifi depending of devices:
check wifi connected devices, likely faster than fingscan and accurate
if switch is used, track traffic through switch - can not hide from the switch
if gateway is used you can add DHCP info and some other
I found it still useful to have both
I anm in the process to make a plugin "EVENTS or homeAway" to combine info from
-fingscan, unifi and pibeacon and other if they participate.
you will be able to combine the info from devices from different plugin to better determine HOME / away status
it will have timers, Groups of devices ... ETA ~ 2 weeks - ... I am out for 1 week
Karl