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Does anyone know how this differs from https://www.internalpositioning.com/ ? So far as I can tell the idea is almost exactly the same.

I've been using that with quite a bit of success in automating my smart home as I move around it.

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Oh this is good, this does room level localisation by the looks of it. From what I can see, with Anyplace you have give it a building plan and then walk along the and sample the APs RSSI for each position, more data points give a better approximation of where you are

Am I correct in seeing that neither is available on Apple products? Is this because of some technical difference or is Apple putting up barriers or some sort of open source issue or something?

Apple doesn't give apps the ability to read raw rssi values from seen list of ssid(s). Also their WiFi Mac randomizing can cause issues depending on how you've got things setup.

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