issues with ping to android phone

[mmoalem]

Hi there - creating a simple script to triger cctv software to turn on when my phone is not connected to home wifi. But having issues with my phone (samsung s7) not answering ping when sleeping (despite wifi set to work when sleep) - not sure the issue... and ideas? 

Alternatively was wondering about pinging the bluetooth address of the phone - anyway to get this working in autoit?

[Jos]

It is a known issue that the newer phones, both android and Apple, put the wifi to sleep to save power. Bluetooth works fine and is what I use for my domotica system. Sound yourself a command line tool that can do the BT ping to its macaddress and shell that with Autoit3.

So not an Autoit3 issue. 🙂

jos

Edited September 11, 2020 by Jos

[mmoalem]

thanks for the reply - can you suggest a command line tool that pings bluetooth please

[mLipok]

You can use Windows API:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/_bluetooth/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/bluetooth/bluetooth-reference

 

Edited February 1, 2021 by mLipok