Hey guys, long story short, many years ago I had iphones/android all working however I was using a mix of apps to do manage presence. Fast forward to today, My hubitat hub sat in storage for years and I've had to start over on everything. What is the best option for iphone presence in 2022? I'm …

First, I don't think it's public yet, but there is at least an iOS app beta (you can get it via TestFlight if you want) that is supposed to address presence issues. So, that may help. But another option, since you have an iPhone, some people use a HomeKit automation plus a virtual devce shared from…

If you don’t have a HomeKit hub Geofency works very well. [image] [RELEASE] Geofency Presence ⚙️ Custom Apps and Drivers I used to use Geohopper for my presence controls but have migrated to Geofency (iOS only, Android folks - but perhaps OwnTracks will work for you?). The…

You can also use Locative on the iPhone + MakerAPI on the hub with a virtual presence sensor.

I've burned more time trying to figure out presence issues than any other single thing on HE. The Apple HomeKit trick works perfectly for my iPhone. But doesn't work for my wife's iPhone. I've quadruple checked every setting. Just never updates. Same is true of pretty much everything else too. Yet t…

I've been testing out a mix of different ones, Hubitat App, Alexa App, Locative, WiFi presence and soon Homekit or Homebridge. I use presence combiner to do seperate arrive and depart settings (especially for WiFi since iPhones keep turning off it's WiFi radio when not in use, so I only have it conf…

I use Combined Presence which works great. The "Jay" and "Lori" are virtual sensors fed by that app. The app works great. Each of the sensors are flaky in some way. Agree that IP Presence is lighting fast and 100% accurate for arrivals. CP: [RELEASE] Combined Presence

Thanks guys, I'll try iPhone WiFi Presence and presence combiner to see if I can get some reliability here. I really want to avoid adding more apps on our phones if I can help it. The native mobile presence for my personal Samsung Note 9 seems to work fine... shocker, Android>Iphone …

So looks like modern iphones use two mac addresses, one for 5g and one for 2.4g wifi ... This makes life interesting for my router and HE !

Even worse, they spoof roll the MAC address unless you tell it not to, and on each trusted network.

Iphone presence - no Homekit

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If you don’t have a HomeKit hub Geofency works very well.