I use these currently four methods to detect my presence: Life360 (Ashok's Life360 Presence) Hubitat app (Ashok's Pixel Presence) Alexa app (turns on a Virtual Presence sensor with switch) Google WiFi (through IFTTT, turns on a Virtual Presence sensor with switch) I had to made a quick run to dro…

Yes no prefect solution. I am not totally anti cloud no getting away from it now. Just trying to be as secure as possible especially with garage doors. Since the car sensor is powered off after arriving it should never accidentally fire an open rule. I also use a battery powered SmartThings arriv…

Hey @stevebott123 , could you share more about whats going on in your dashboard?

Yep, on the advice and experience of other forum members I setup the above. So if either the iOS app (he phone) or Life360 (steve 360) register as in the geofence, set group A to present (steves phone) if either steves phone or sb wifi (wifi presence community driver) register as present, set grou…

Another option for android is Macrodroid via maker API It has a geolocation service - i have been using this for about a week, and it seems to be working quite well

SmartThings Presence Sensors - 3 (with battery hack) Have worked perfectly for about 3 months now. No battery drain on phone which was an issue with HE app and not reliable.

Thanks @stevebott123 . Where did you find the best way to setup Locative? I've been trying and keep getting errors all over the place. I must be setting up Maker API incorrectly

This was the link I was given, got it working first go. just take your time to read it all. [image] My experience with HE 💬 Lounge I haven't used Locative in a while, but my directions that I wrote up are available below. Just a heads-up - recently Locative started gett…

[image] JasonJoel: with just a couple of manual refresh rules = 100.0% accuracy for me.over the last 6+months. uhm .. can you enlighten me on this? Rules? Can you explain this in one word or less? and "Yep" or any form thereof isn't an acceptable answer. :crazy_face: Just kidding. But, I'd r…

I have had absolutely 100% success using Life360 for geofencing. That being said I have a very large circle around my home. I don't want it firing when I go the mailbox. If I remember right I have about a 2000 foot radius and it has never failed to lock up when we leave the house and never failed…

How is everyone using Wifi for presence detection? I've seen lots of talk about it, but no guide on how to set it up.

A comparison of 4 presence detection methods

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stevebott123 March 2, 2020, 12:54am 33

This was the link I was given, got it working first go.
just take your time to read it all.