[HOW TO] SmartThings Presence reporting using Tasker/SharpTools/AutoLocation

[joshua_lyon (Josh, SharpTools.io Dashboard)]

It looks great so far! You’ve done a great job breaking it down with a solid introduction explaining the who, what, and why before jumping into the step-by-step instructions! I’ve added a link to this write-up at the top of the SharpTools Custom Presence article.

One thing I’ve seen before is the commands to control SmartThings can get dropped if they are triggered while you are transitioning from cellular to wifi (or vice versa), so I’ve seen some users add retry logic like this post from @hellfire51:

SharpTools Presence

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: [image] The only important things not shown here: The first notification should be “Permanen…