Changing the status of an phone presence sensor manually

[S.F.B]

Weird indeed, considering the importance of this status. “Carry coal to Newcastle” = using a routine and a virtual switch to determine the status.

[Ace2 (Chris Bell)]

I created a virtual presence sensor, 2 routines based on location turn it on/off, although i use my Samsung location and bixby routines to turn it on/off.
Easy enough to go into smartthings and the presence sensors have a on/off button.

[Pagemakers]

@JDRoberts

What are you using to turn on the virtual presence sensor?

And…is this a groovy virtual device you created through the IDE? If so, it’s going away pretty soon, too. And it may go away for different accounts at different times.

Or is it a new edge driver virtual presence sensor created recently? Like the following:

[ST Edge] vEdge Creator: a virtual device generator for end users

If it’s an old one, you might as well go ahead and replace it now with the edge driver, you’ll need to do it eventually

Hi. I’m flowing your instructions to create an Edge virtual connector.

When it scans to find a new device it doesn’t find anything. Stupid question…. I’m not at home so is this the reason it can’t find the device? Will I have to wait until I’m home for this to work?

[JDRoberts]

@Pagemakers

question…. I’m not at home so is this the reason it can’t find the device? Will I have to wait until I’m home for this to work?

Not being home shouldn’t matter.

The best thing is to ask your question in the author thread for that edge driver: someone there should be able to help you get the device set up.

[Pagemakers]

Managed to install the vEdge presence devices.

How do I control it using the presence on my iPhone?

[Terri_Baker (TeBa)]

Once you’ve allowed ST location access you’ll need to create 2 routines per vPresence device.

If member location is presnt
Then set vPresence to present

If member location is away
Then set vPresence to not present

[Pagemakers]

Looks like you can add ST to IFTTT once again.