Been away from ST for a bit. Questions regarding its state

[johnconstantelo]

@chowder007

And what does changing the value do?

I took this from another post, but it explains it best:

You can set the amount of time it takes for a presence tag to be marked absent.

So if you’re having problem with it checking in and out a lot for no reason you can set it to be longer to get rid of false positives. Or if you want it faster you can increase it. I think default is 2 minutes.

Check out this post as well:

SmartSense Presence Sensor FAILURE

I’m doing this from the road, so I apologize if I miss anything… You can adjust the presence time out (the difference between when a tag drops off the network to the platform running a SmartApp) by going to https://graph.api.smartthings.com/hub/>View Utilities>Select the new time>Update. The dropdown does not automatically update, but you can view the timeout setting by selecting Get Presence Timeout. This should reduce false positive location events, especially if they are typically 1-2 minute flip-flops. For more cool tips, glamour shots, or just procrastinating at work… and troubleshooting, I recommend emailing support@smartthings.com.