How to deal with multiple vehicles, multiple people and multiple garage doors?

[Cobra (Andy - United Kingdom)]

@viguera
Have a look at this… you might get some ideas…

Who took The Car?

My wife and I both have a car each, but we also have a third car (4x4) that we share. This is used when one of us takes the dogs out, or because the weather is bad and one of us has to go somewhere and doesn’t want to chance taking a 2 wheel drive. I was recently reading this thread: https://community.smartthings.com/t/3-or-more-state-virtual-button/78073/7?u=cobra and it got me thinking… … Car at home… Wife took the car… I took the car… we both took the car… 4 ‘states’ for a virtual indication switch So after ‘tweaking’ the DTH to show: Driver1, Driver2, On Drive & Both I created a little smartapp to try and indicate ‘who took the car’ I’m adding both the modified DTH and the smartapp here in case someone else might find it useful or as a building block for something else. I have…

I use multiple presence to determine who took a shared car, including which cars were still on the drive and which driver was still at home

And maybe this might be useful…

Presence Sensor battery upgrade

Here is my version I mounted everything into a 4 battery holder (after taking out 1 divider) From this… [image] To this… [image] Saves having to buy an additional project box

If you think about it…

Wife goes out in a car on her own…
Wife not present… car1 not present…You and car2 still at home - Car returns… open door for car1

You go out in car on your own
You not present… car2 not present… Wife and car1 still at home - Car returns, open door for car 2

You both go out in car 1 - car 2 still at home… - Car returns, open door for car 1

I have also used this…

[OBSOLETE] Reliable Presence SmartApp

I am sure this exists somewhere, but I couldn’t find it. I based this off of Everyone’s Presence SmartApp (or something like that), but this is different. That one is about group presence. This one is about making a single person’s presence more reliable. I noticed that if presence fails, it usually sticks on or off. For instance, a fob battery dies. Or the app stops reporting for a spell. Well, if you add a second, or third or “n” presence sensor to the mix, the combination of them is MUCH more reliable if you look at events only. Meaning that if any presence device arrives, THAT is an event you can trust, set the virtual sensor to present. Same for departure. If any device leaves, set the virtual presence to departed. Sounds simple, and works well. Instructions: Create a si…

Although I’m working on something to do it all