Hi Folks,
While mobile app now works MUCH better than prev version(s), I have a question:
I have 2 locations (for now) and would love to be able app to automatically change "home" hub when enters into geofenced location.
Is there addon/ plans from Hubitat to implement such missing functionality?
Best,
Teodor
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I can see where that might be doable in a single hub per home situation, but in a multi-hub home that may require manual setting it the first time.
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As a multi-hub in multi-home guy, the one-time setup would be totally worth having dual geo-fence capability.
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Geofence can only do one location..
You can set the geofenced location for each hub, then your mobile roams and when enters in any given hub's geolocation to auto-switch to that hub.
I used to do this with a set of webCoRE pistons at one time. Was on Android at the time; I forget what the app was, but I could get the lat/long from it and used that to calculate distance from the hub, or any location that I had defined to webCoRE.
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You could probably do it with Tasker on Android
Thanks to those folks who responded with workarrounds!
I do hope though that someone from Hubitat reads such posts and can advise how could be done and probably if it seems reasonable and whether can be implemented anytime soon. I would say it can even be a service to pay reasonable subscription for such multi-hub scenario.
BTW I have few Samsung hubs and they can do it (though will never return back to Samsung due to 2 main issues; left Groovy; almost all cloud).
I do the same thing, but I'm using a Home Assistant integration to capture long/lat and distance-from-home and use that for presence at my second home. As usual, multiple ways to skin the cat!
I always view complexity as the birthplace of problems in the long-term, so a more elegant multi-home presence solution would be awesome. Though I imagine it's not high on the list since the vast majority of folks don't have this need. Oh well.
