And even with these settings, at least on Android 15 (Pixel phones), the app's phone presence still fails to update sometimes. I'd offhand guess it works about 75% of the time (to quote a made-up statistic).
I know because I also use [UPDATED] iPhone WiFi Presence Sensor also [RELEASE] Combined Presence.
[UPDATED] iPhone WiFi Presence Sensor also works on Android. It just tries a TCP connection to your phone (you need a reserved IP on the phone) and to see if it is on the network. For Android, this works very reliably in detecting if the phone is on or off the network.
[RELEASE] Combined Presence lets me use multiple different presence sensors to drive a single virtual presence sensor. E.g., this is the settings for my wife (names changed to protect the WAF):
(Note that the Combined Presence instructions say to list the WiFi Presence devices in the 2nd group, as they don't work reliably on iPhones. However, they work very reliably on Android, so I move them up to the first group)
With this setup, our computed presence ("Wife" in this case) works reliably. The bottom check box gives me a notification if the inputs are out of sync, which happens every so often because the app presense has not updated.
In fact, my wife left the house as I was writing this and it took the app 10 minutes to finally update to "not present".
Finally, I also use [RELEASE] HD+ - Android Dashboard for it's dashboard controls. But it also implements a geolocation device for presence. It has the exact same background usage settings as the Hubitat app, and I use it as an input into my combined presence. It seems to work 100% of the time.
