I'm struggling to get Follow Me to go active on 'away'. I want messages to follow me to my cell phone when I'm away. As I drive off from my home, using Virtual Presence + my home goes into lockdown and I get notifications from Alexa and HSM that I'm now away. So all that works flawless.
I added a 'Follow Me - Away' child with Presence Sensor 1 set and push device to Twilio. I get 'waiting for data' and no updates if I go away or return.
Originally I just added a 6th Child and point to the Follow Me - Jim but the Child never shows in the dashboard tile. So I thought maybe this was a 5 child maximum problem - but that wasn't it.
What can I be doing wrong?
Just adding some info here in things I've tried and progress made. There is a reference to '5 childs' so I added a second parent. This didn't work well for me - I think they step on each other.
I hacked the code for testing and added the ability for 2 more children. That helped alot.
Now I'm still having problems with While Away, I want the follow me to always be active - currently it has a timer - is there an infinite setting? can I put 0 as the time value so it doesn't release?
The presence detector, I can't determine how I set a 'not'. I'd like to tie the child to 'not present' to trigger active... is that possible?
(another update - )
I can detect I'm home, just not away - but barring that, has anyone every connected Follow Me to their Android Phone Alexa app to speak?
Hey Bryan, I've been using the Follow Me driver for a long time, just to put TTS announcements on my dashboards around the house. Always helps when somebody says, "What'd he say?". I've noticed recently that there are entries in the dashboard that just have the date and time, per usual, and then "Speak:" (that's it) where the text is usually. I'm trying to troubleshoot to figure out what is triggering this.
When I go the device log for the Follow Me device, I see this
whatDidISayCount
636
DEVICE
2021-10-02 08:49:32.807 AM CDT
bpt-whatDidISay
10-2 08:49 AM - Speak:
10-1 11:51 PM - Speak:
10-1 10:43 PM - An automobile is moving on our hardscaping
10-1 10:43 PM - A car is moving on the driveway
10-1 09:38 PM - Speak:
10-1 09:35 PM - Speak:
10-1 06:46 PM - The doggie door has been locked because it has gotten dark outside.
10-1 06:44 PM - A car is moving on the driveway
10-1 06:43 PM - The doggie door has been unlocked. It's safe to let the dogs out now.
10-1 06:25 PM - Christina Cloud hub not responding to two pings back-to-back.|||DEVICE||2021-10-02 08:49:32.805 AM CDT|
|latestMessageDateTime|Sat Oct 02 08:49:32 CDT 2021|||DEVICE||2021-10-02 08:49:32.787 AM CDT|
|latestMessage|{"method":"speak","message":"Speak: ","priority":"X:X:X","speakLevel":null,"returnLevel":null,"title":""}|||DEVICE||2021-10-02 08:49:32.785 AM CDT|
Well yeah, for sure. The problem is, I have no idea where such a command is coming from. Any way for the driver to tell me who/what is triggering the action?
I'm experiencing some strange behavior with Follow Me. I wasn't having the problem pre- 2.2.9 - seems to be related to the update but I usually learn that's not it... just trying to point - anyways.
I have a very basic rule that says the Mode on my Follow Me device when mode changes. I now get this error ... Here is the screen info from Followme.
I notice that the last message was from Game Day Live which shouldn't have been the last message last night - it should have been Mode is now Night which would have occurred around 11pm.
I attempted to change my rule which had no value for volume set - but the Say command was still not working. Thoughts?
I don't use RM and I'm not seeing any errors in my log ( I only use Event Engine, of course! ). Let me do some testing.
