diehllane
October 10, 2016, 3:16am
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Other options would include something like using Automatic (which has been integrated by @yvesracine and can be integrated for a cost: [DEPRECATED ] Automatic Connected Car- Integration with SmartThings ), Dash (which has an IFTTT channel and the device options are cheaper than automatic, but it does have a delay with IFTTT), or using your router to determine that a specific device connected (if you have a router you can do that with) since you mentioned that the Pilot is connected to your home WiFi.
Here are a few links regarding the router method.
Similar to many users, I wasn’t happy with the smartthings mobile app presence detection. I just moved back from a veralite which I had setup my router to run a script to toggle a virtual presence switch. That was a little easier to setup than with smartthings as there was already a good discussion thread to work off of. See:
Micasaverde Forums
To get this to work, you need:
DD-WRT (possibly Tomato) based router to run the devices tracking script.
Virtual Presence Toggle device for the router to interact with (with endpoint access)
First, the virtual presence device is similar to others that have been posted. I set mine up with a virtual switch and a virtual presence tile/capabilities. This allows you to manually override or set the presence. See the following for the basic device cod…
I have created a pretty solid wifi presence solution for when my phones connect to the wifi network, its very quick to update ST.
I use this alongside the ST app, Life360 & my own Tado presence device type, i use Rule machine to flip a virtual presence sensor when any of the 4 change state, this is a first past the post setup and it works really well, before i put this in presence was really an issue. this however always triggers when all the others fail to update (regularly) but the range of this is not very far, only within the wifi range (obviously!)
ive seen other solutions for DD-WRT, but these don’t work with the Newer Asus routers, RT-AC87U or Newer as the command to list mac addresses with the new 5G hardware no longer uses wl
ok so the first thing i did was install the latest A…