Wait for Hubitat iPhone app, or use Life360?

[malberti]

Can the use of life360, presence sensors, and/or presence apps be used for smaller areas. Like walking into a man cave. Granted the man cave is big 700 sqft but still can it trigger actions by walking into a room

[Navat604]

@malberti

Can the use of life360, presence sensors, and/or presence apps be used for smaller areas. Like walking into a man cave. Granted the man cave is big 700 sqft but still can it trigger actions by walking into a room

Answer is no. It's not meant for room presence. Not to mention there is also a delay.

[malberti]

Thank you for the quick reply. Do you have any suggestions to do individual room presence.

[JasonJoelOld]

There is no solution for that in HE.

Even outside of HE it is a joke, and doesn't work well. You wither need a dongle on every person at all times (phone, bluetooth, other) - good luck with that, or try to rely on facial recognition that is spotty at BEST.

The best uses of this I have seen use a remote with a button dedicated for each person, or a keypad with code.

[Generious]

Have a look at this post here

[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…

Link to Git

GitHub - joelwetzel/Hubitat-iPhone-Presence-Sensor: A virtual presence sensor...

I will be trying it out this weekend as it looks promising

[jwetzel1492]

Thanks for the mention! I am finding I have very good results using 3 things together:

1. Alexa app (or some other geofencing phone app) for geofencing presence.
2. My above-mentioned iPhone WiFi presence sensor
3. Use my Combined Presence app to combine the two for best results.

joelwetzel/Hubitat-Combined-Presence

[mmachi]

I'm brand new to Hubitat (coming from Wink) and presence was a concern of mine as I previously used my Canary camera system via Wink to trigger home/away actions. I have not yet put it into full production, but I am very excited to see your presence apps as a viable option! I am working to combine Life360 and iPhone presence my combined presence triggers! Thanks in advance!

[bobbles]

Have a look at Locative.
It's been withdrawn but you can find the app and load it on your phone. (I'm on Android).
In conjunction with the Maker API app I find it to be very responsive and accurate.
Might be worth investigating.
Here's the post that gives all the info.

Use Locative for Presence

I'm new to Hubitat and would like to see Hubitat support the use of Locative for presence until the mobile app with presence is available or as another option. I'm using Life360 right now but don't find it ideal and have privacy concerns with giving yet another 3rd party access to my location 24/7. Locative uses HTTP(S)-URL (either via GET or POST requests) and I believe it would be a better fit in keeping with Hubitat's local control philosophy.

[gavincampbell]

Locative works nicely. I use it.

Just make sure you adjust your range big enough so that its not trying to update the presence when in the "dead zone". Thats where the phone is fighting to stay on the wifi and fails any connections. For me its close to the end of the street. Once I go around the corner all is good . So I updated my zone correctly.