Presence is almost perfect... almost

[Angus_M]

Many posts on this subject. Search is your friend. I use a combined presence approach in Rule Machine, mixing wifi connection, Life360, and Hubitat app presence. It is bullet proof. There are also some community apps that you could try such as...

[RELEASE] Presence Plus - Creates a combined presence device

*** BPTWorld apps are no longer being developed or maintained. Thanks *** Introducing 'Presence Plus' Creates a combined presence device that can be used with BPTWorld Apps, Google Assistant, Rule Machine and More! This is a simple way to combine presence sensors. Built with other BPTWorld apps in mind, this will make it easier to expand the functions of other BPTWorld apps that rely on 'Last activity' data. Features: Combine sensors to make one unique device reflecting presence Uses Prese…

[RELEASE] Combined Presence

https://github.com/joelwetzel/Hubitat-Combined-Presence Combined Presence app for Hubitat An app for Hubitat to combine two or more presence sensors to control an output Virtual Presence Sensor. There are 3 types of combiners: Standard Combiners (Use this for combining wifi and gps-based sensors for a single person. It is optimized for that.) Boolean-OR Combiners (Example: If Person1 OR Person2 is home, then the virtual SomeoneIsHome sensor should be home.) Advanced Combiners (All logic o…

[UPDATED] iPhone WiFi Presence Sensor

https://github.com/joelwetzel/Hubitat-iPhone-Presence-Sensor iPhone WiFi Presence Sensor for Hubitat A virtual presence sensor for Hubitat that checks if an iPhone is on the WiFi network. Note: iPhones can put their WiFi to sleep, so you should not use this as your only way of detecting presence. However, it can be used to augment other presence sensors. Interpret results this way: If this sensor shows "present", the iPhone is DEFINITELY present. If this sensor shows "not present", the iP…

(actually doesn't just work for iPhone, name is misleading)

This is a very good thread. I explain my eventual approach there. It may give you some ideas....

Most reliable presence detection

I just got my hub and started migrating devices and my apps over from ST. I finally got Life360 working (with your help) for presence detection. But now I'm wondering which is more reliable Life360 or IFTTT or ???. My smartphone is Android. I'm thinking if I could detect my home router (wifi) that would be most reliable but I have no clue if that's possible. Thanks.