I know that Life360 had changed things up and this was the root of the issue with them, and that the "built in" part of using your phone as a presence sensor is not reliable. Is there any possible update on any of this in the works? It seems like there has to be some way to make this work. But, w…

Life360 doesn’t want their service to be accessible to outside services like Hubitat. Not much Hubitat can do about that. Your best bet is to use a different solution for mobile presence/geolocation.

For increasing reliability of the built in app, you can go to settings, advanced, and verify you have a delay set. That will prevent momentary changes like the one for 2 seconds that you describe. The other thing is to make sure you have ALL power saving options disabled for hubitat. You did no…

[image] marktheknife: Life360 doesn’t want their service to be accessible to outside services like Hubitat. Not much Hubitat can do about that. Your best bet is to use a different solution for mobile presence/geolocation. I can fully understand that on the part of Life 360, except they had b…

[image] tray_e: You did not mention whether you were IOS or Android. I am android. I guess that would be useful info. It's IOS. I'll run down the list you have and see if maybe my phone can trigger the Hubitat app somehow, instead of Hubitat looking where my phone is.

I have heard that Geofency works well on IOS. No personal experience with it though.

[image] tpaairman: except they had been letting it happen before Apparently the company's position on allowing external access to their APIs changed several months ago. Not much anyone (except Life360) can do about it. [image] tpaairman: But, other than the built in presence sensor in Hu…

[image] marktheknife: The Apple Home app can also work for this purpose if you use the right kind of virtual sensor (it has to be a combined switch/presence sensor) and if you have a device that Apple considers to be a "Home hub" that's always on at home, such as a HomePod or HomePod Mini. I’…

Blatantly advertising my write up. [image] Locative Presence app for iOS full setup Here's a cool thing I did! Locative is a great app for presence sensing but is only available for iPhones. I previously used Life360 free version for over a year without any issues. I not…

[image] ritchierich: I’d add Apple TV to the device list so if you have one you can leverage HomeKit for presence. Ah that’s right, I knew I was forgetting one but couldn’t think of it.

Is there any update on Life360 or other presence sensing?

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danabw April 3, 2024, 11:20pm 9

I'd recommend this - supports iOS and Android. Very active, friendly developer, who has made adjustments in an effort to make this an effective replacement for Life360.