JvH
May 10, 2016, 11:08am
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I thought I had read somewhere that a community member was working on an app that could be used for presence detection only. I want to have this ability for my kids phones since I do not want them to have access to everything the normal app offers. Is this still something that is being worked on?
If you have a router that supports WW-DRT, that is an option. It’s been working really well for me.
WW-DRT
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ranman
May 10, 2016, 1:07pm
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In new and was trying to use Life360 but ST support says it’s broke with no ETA on a fix. I’m interested in what does work as well!!
diehllane
May 10, 2016, 2:04pm
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If you’re on Android, the SharpTools and Tasker combination is an option.
It thought I would share my solution using @joshua_lyon ’s SharpTools to SmartThings presence issues. I started out with the example on his site, but continued to have some issues. Eventually I found the heart of the matter: when arriving or departing from home my phone was often in the process of handing off between 4G and WiFi while the task was being triggered. This would cause calls to timeout and silently fail. I played with setting timeouts, but continued to have issues.
My solution was to add retry logic to my Tasker task. I try up to 10 times to update my presence, and if after that I still fail, I leave a notification indicating that it gave up. This screenshot shows most of the task:
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The only important things not shown here:
The first notification should be “Permanen…
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