presence

Purpose

Tracks whether household members are home by ICMP-pinging their phones on the LAN at a fixed interval. Derives an overall household state (EMPTY, OCCUPIED, etc.) from per-member presence and publishes both to MQTT so the rule engine and arm-state FSM can react.

Key files

vigilar/presence/monitor.py — PresenceMonitor: ping loop, per-member state machine with departure_delay_m grace period, publishes per-member and household-level topics
vigilar/presence/models.py — MemberPresence dataclass and derive_household_state aggregator
vigilar/presence/__init__.py

MQTT topics

Subscribes: none Publishes:

vigilar/presence/{name} — per-member status (HOME or AWAY, plus role)
vigilar/presence/status — aggregated household state and a {name: HOME|AWAY} map

Database tables

none — presence state lives only in memory and on the bus.

Depends on

LAN reachability of configured [presence.members] IPs
ping binary on the host

Consumed by

events — rules and the arm-state FSM react to household state changes
alerts — smart alert profile matcher in vigilar/alerts/profiles.py branches on HouseholdState

Notes

A member is marked HOME the moment a ping succeeds, but only marked AWAY after departure_delay_m minutes without a successful ping — this prevents a single dropped reply from flipping the household state. The monitor uses time.monotonic() for the grace window, so it is immune to wall-clock jumps. Per-member and household topics are republished every poll, not only on transitions, so late subscribers always get current state.

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