Geofence thinks I'm away when I'm Home

Cheers, I'll read up on it. I wonder if it can be installed on Synology NAS or Ubuntu Linux?

EDIT: that's a yes :slight_smile:

Hmmm I think its possible.. Go for google on it...

Yeah it is, just not on my weak AF DS213j. Looks like I'll have to install docker on my Ubuntu Plex Server.

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That turned out to be unnecessary, I used the node.js version:

Some people are using Bluetooth beacons as an additional check. Easy enough to stick one of those little tags on your keyring.

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I actually considered getting the Samsung Zigbee presence key fobs but I hate the idea of more crap on my key ring. I just got rid of my old alarm key fob.

I need to have more of a play with the homebridge as it’s not running as a service ATM, at least until I understand it better.

Hopefully adding that second gps presence will solve my issues.

But then its dark when you come home... You must get so close to activate home mode. I want my house and every light to already be on when I come home..... otherwise you can use a button....

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What does that mean?

as soon as I quit the ssh session, the node.js app quits too.

And in English ? :joy:

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lol, SSH is a text based connection to my Linux server and I havent setup the homebridge app to run as a background service yet (as in always on).

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Ok im fully up and running with Homebridge and have HomeKit presence detection added into the mix!

These instructions were by far the best (but there's still a lot of messing about with JSON code before it'll talk to HE:

It wouldn't be your primary presence detection but would prevent false away triggers by combining presence devices. Having all your presence detection on your phone even if it's multiple different apps or apps and wifi is still a single point of failure. By adding a Bluetooth tag you wont get those away for one minute trips when your phone goes into power saving, gets an update, or whatever. I have a credit card style tile that I can just stick in my wallet.

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I now have 2 GPS based Sensors (HE iOS app & HomeKit) + the excellent WiFi presence detection system.

And I use the advanced presence combiner like this:

Now I have reliable GPS tracking, I've set the wifi time out to 2 minutes so the away happens reasonably quickly. I've kept the WiFi tracking mainly for its super fast arrival detection.

I am the author to the ESP32 Tile tracker, and I agree with lewis.heidrick. I use Tile Bluetooth Low Energy tracker combined with wifi presence detection to prevent false away signals when my iPhone goes into power saving mode or getting an update.

My spouse and I rely on wifi detection for return from away mode. I am going to experiment adding another ESP32 Tile tracker close to the front of our home to test where it detects the Tiles on our keys. Another option might be to increase the sensitivity of the scanner by adding an antenna.

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Is this the app you're using to integrate Geofency with Hubitat?

How is this solution integrated with Hubitat?

Via the maker api

yes

I haver never ever got my phone to work on geofence on Hubitat or smartthings in the past, my phone is detected as a device and that's as far as it goes ?????????????????