[UPDATED] iPhone WiFi Presence Sensor

[marktheknife]

Thanks for elaborating, @ogiewon .

@ogiewon

if this is your only method of determining user presence.

@jw970065 you should not use only this method for determining arrival/departure, since as @ogiewon explained, the behavior you’re seeing is expected and mostly an unavoidable artifact of how iPhones automatically manage power usage while asleep.

As it says in the OP:

@jwetzel1492

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 iPhone may or may not be present. We don't know.

The developer of this driver also wrote an app that can combine more than one presence device, it creates a new virtual device that can be used for much more reliable presence-based notifications or automations.

[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…

If you don’t care at all about how long it takes for your phone to show as “departed” using this driver only, you could set the timeout to something very high like 15-20 mins. That might work around the issue. But like @ogiewon I also use other solutions like Locative, which is a separate iOS mobile app but can be integrated with Hubitat.