I have a simple rule that detects when I arrive home (pixel 3XL presence) that only activates at night which turns on the porch lights, opens the garage door and after 10 minutes closes everything back & resets the lights. I have it set so this rule is disabled during the day and only runs after dark.
Today was my first test run (arrived home around 9:23PM) and nothing worked. Below is my rule, the event logged by my pixel 3xl and the system log from around that time period. Can you tell what I did wrong here? What else can I provide to help debug this?
I have a virtual momentary switch setup to control the garage doors w/ Alexa..could it be that I need to use that instead? Is this maybe a safety thing where I can't open the garage door directly from a presence/geofencing script?
Also my wife got mad & jumped out of the car & manually opened the garage door so the door open event in the log was due to her.
correct but it did not open. in my hubitat dashboard i get a message 'are you sure?' when i click either garage door that i also have to answer 'yes' to.
so the timing could be coincidental; i have no phone service where i live so it takes a minute for the router to pick up my phone when i pull up the driveway and my wife was probably already out of the car opening it by then manually.
device page? I only control it from a dashboard and have it set to close at 10:30pm every night (if open) which works fine. This is my first time trying to make it open via script.
I do use my voice (alexa) all the time to open & close both doors but thats via virtual switch I created in hubitat.
Could you have not had the hubitat app on your phone open when you pulled up in the car? I think it needs to be running at least in the background for the geofencing to work.
But if nothing happened, i.e. none of the lights came on either, then I would think the issue would be with the trigger of the phone arriving home not firing.
Me neither, and I think you're on the right track with checking operation of the door.
I just know there were some issues for a few people here some time ago, including me, with geofencing and for me it was ensuring the HE app opened automatically when I start the phone.
well hitting 'run actions' worked flawlessly. i'm going out a limb here and saying my wife just got to the door faster than the geofence picked up on the fact i was home. i'll try it again and may have to fine tune it; maybe since the phone doesn't get service until i'm already in the driveway i might need to come up with something that activates it before i lose service (about 1/2 mile away from my house) instead.
