Just to say thanks @jwetzel1492 for this app (and the Wifi presence one).
You pointed me to these in another thread where I was having a frustrated moan about HE’s inbuilt ‘presence’ functionality, or lack-of.
Lockdown means that I haven’t had the opportunity to test your app extensively yet, but it seems to do the job well on the few occasions I, or my partner, and both of us, have left/arrived.
I am using the Advanced Combiner to combine HE (mobile) presence, ST (mobile) presence and Wifi presence (ANY for arrival, but only ANY of HE and ST for departure...because, as we know, wifi presence ying-yangs every few minutes when at home).
What it has also allowed me to easily compare is HE vs ST presence. As I stated in the other thread, I am finding that my Smartthings iPhone presence is very solid, whilst the HE presence is completely unreliable...for me at least. I’d like to understand why. (IPhone settings: location, background refresh, mobile data, etc, settings are the same for both).
I’d would like to find another presence method to combine (and remove HE presence from my combiner)
Alexa is not an option (as geofencing not available in UK), life360 has not been working well....so, I’ll have to try and get my head around Homebridge in order to use HomeKit. (I won’t pay for a geofencing app). I do have a couple of ST fobs at the back of a drawer somewhere...haven’t used them for years as they were chewing through batteries, plus I don’t need any extra bulk on my, already bulky, bunch of keys. But perhaps they are due a resurrection.
When we are less confined to the house again...that’s when the real testing will start. That’s when the false ‘positives and negatives’ might start emerging, although I am assuming (partly based on experience) that I’m unlikely to experience false arrivals...just a lack of (timely) departures.
I’m also yet to play a bit more with the ALL and ANY combinations...although what I have so far seems to do the trick.
Thank you!
