Lock user codes active/inactive based on presence

[scunny]

Coming from SmartThings I was using an app from Rboy that would enable/disable user codes based on their presence. Awhile back I saw a thread where one of the Hubitat staff discussed this and offered an example of how to do this. I can no longer find that thread.

Can anyone offer any assistance or ideas on how to accomplish this?

Thanks.

[thebearmay]

I normally don’t trust presence to be accurate enough to be useful/reliable but if I were to consider developing a rule for this the easiest way would be to use presence to enable/disable the device, and thus the codes. Believe the rule would need to invoke an http call to:

http://yourHubIpAddress:8080/device/disable?id=deviceId&disable=true

and of course false to re-enable

[scunny]

Thanks, I need to lock to be available to those present but not those not present.

[thebearmay]

Okay that throws out my suggestion...

[672southmain]

My cats have the pet door unlock by their microchip being near the door. Perhaps something similar could be done for people.

[thebearmay]

That’s actually the right scenario, in that they need a secondary local authentication.

Going along that thinking, if you actually managed their codes separate from the lock you could detect presence and then allow a hidden master code to open the lock when they authenticate to the app using another code.

[scunny]

Interesting concept.

[Bix66]

I schedule lock codes by day/time using an example I saw here from bravenel. You could use your trigger and do similar actions to this. At first I thought it was awkward, but I've been using it without issue for quite a while. See the comment under the pic below.

Note: the first parameter to setCode is a number, and the last two are strings.

[scunny]

I actually found his post with the instructions for the 3 parameters and successfully created the rules yesterday based on user presence.

Thank you for taking the time to post this though.