Something like this integrated into HE and part of the platform would be great!!!
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Why use VPN for Dashboards?
I find the Dashboard load faster via VPN than via cloud.
Interesting. Without consideration of VPN, if I visit a local link on WiFi, It is of course very fast. But if I visit the cloud link while on Wi-Fi it is significantly slower to load. However if I switch off my Wi-Fi and visit the cloud link via LTE it’s very fast loading.
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I had added the shortcut on my iPhone as you suggested earlier for the wife. Now turn off the Wifi on my phone and that shortcut will not load at all over the LTE, what am I missing here?
To be clear, only Dashboard Shortcuts will work over LTE without a VPN. The Hubitat web interface shortcuts will only work on your local network via WiFi or Ethernet, or on LTE via a VPN.
When you add the dashboard shortcuts, make sure you’re looking at the cloud dashboard not the local.
Thank you for the clarification, I appreciate the help, only been at this a week 
Fair enough, and I use it as one option. But I don't like Life360 as the native solution, it's unreliable.
You're right, but it's still available on the app store and works fine when paired with the API.
However, I agree. Another third party solution.
Me too. I hate exposing anything I don't have to, to the cloud, especially dashboards.
I've tried so many geofencing solutions on two different iphones and found none of them to be 100% reliable. Some may work better than others but they all fail too frequently to rely on. I think android may have better luck.
I'm thinking its the phone itself and how it handles apps vs battery usage and the apps are just a little to restricted.
The most reliable of the bunch was locative. And that one I also like because it doesn't send your data to any other cloud service. But it still wasn't 100%.
Combining geofencing with lan presence (as long as your wifi reaches to the front of the garage or wherever you walk in/drive into) has been 100% reliable for me.
My modified version of the combine presence app, uses the LAN Presence. It considers it disparately from the other combined presence detection options I use on a threshold. LAN Presence present, definitely present. LAN Presence not present, might be gone, check everything else.
Pretty solid. However, I don't want to rube goldberg everyone's phone I'd like to offer access. I need a single solution for guests and such, that I can ask them to download and sign in, and that's that. We need something better.
Wow... I would have very few guests in my house if I tried to make them install apps on their phones to stay with me. No way my parents or in-laws would do that - hell, what am I saying, they don't even HAVE smart phones!
More of a selection of guests that are frequent. And that's not a bad thing if the in-laws don't come over. 
Good point. 
