No matter what I do now, presence is non functional on my phone. It says out of geofence but the device status on the hub never changes. I've force quit. I've uninstalled. I've restarted.

Hubitat's presence never worked consistently or at all on any of our phones. We tried it after Life360 reduced its services. We're still in search of a simple and reliable cross-platform solution.

If you are getting logged out of the app between sessions, it may be toggling off your geofencing. Mine was rock solid on the new app until I logged into my tablet with the same e-mail. I wound up creating a different e-mail guest account just for my tablet, and it was rock solid again. They stat…

I haven't had any of the logging out issues.

Thanks, that app still has the manual restart required after every app stop or phone start. Looks like a great contribution for some use cases, but I'm looking for automation, not complication of my life. :smile:

[image] davidinjp: that app still has the manual restart required Background location permission was added in version 2.5.0 of the Play Store app, so the app store version no longer needs to be opened after a phone reboot to continue to get location. :slight_smile: Background location permi…

Oh cool. The first post in the linked OT [Release] thread above still calls out a manual restart is required under the " Phone Locations are not Responsive" text header. Will give it a go.

The author is extremely responsive and helpful. Read through the basic setup instructions and give it a go, and post any questions you have in that main Owntracks topic.

Thanks for the nudge. Works like a charm.

[image] danabw: Background location permission! (Hurray!) Interesting, I didn't know that. I stopped using it because of that. Guess I'll need to test it again.

Presence is dead

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danabw August 26, 2024, 4:57pm 5

This is the way...depending on your def of simple, which is a subjective thing, of course.