How to you create a virtual presence with IFTTT?

[JDRoberts]

@shan52

How to you create a virtual presence with IFTTT? I can’t find any documentation.

You just need a virtual presence sensor which also has capability.switch and then can be turned on or off.

Then you have the IFTTT location as the IF and turning on/off the virtual presence sensor as the THAT in your IFTTT applet. (You will need to applets, want to turn it on when you arrive, and another to turn it off when you leave.)

There are a number of community members who use this method successfully. Like everything involving presence, some methods work for some people and don’t work for others. You just have to keep trying until you find one that does work for you.

You can find more details about this in the presence FAQ. (This is a clickable link.)

FAQ: The Many Ways of Detecting Presence (2020)

Presence, regardless of the device you use, is one of those features that works great for some people, not at all for other people, and is randomly flaky for still others. It’s very much affected by local conditions. So some people will find that phone presence works much better than the SmartThings-branded presence sensor. Other people will find the reverse. Still other people, myself included, find that they have to use a combination of two devices in order to get reliable presence indication. So if this feature tends to work differently for different people, where do you start? 1. Using a Smart Phone as a Presence Indicator [image] Well, since most people who have SmartThings have a smart phone, it’s worth starting there. This method has changed significantly in the change fro…