Part 2. Your Personal Dashboard
After you've confirmed your script is working, go check out your dashboard! You should see some tiles with a large emoji office building or "no" sign and then an office building.
The dashboard offers a quick way to see who's at work, but adding other things like a temperature/humidity reading or the current weather would be both easy and interesting. I'll also go over how to trigger text alerts based on when someone arrives or leaves later.
The main reason I wanted to do this project was as a proof of concept for triggering some sort of action when a certain device was detected - like playing specific theme music when someone enters the office! If I get that working, I'll be sure to add it here.
It's fine and dandy to run all of this while you're SSH'd into the Pi, but we want it to work reliably when we're not around. Keep reading for how to make this setup stick!