Ideas/suggestions for presence detection?

[JDRoberts]

The following might give you some ideas. It covers a couple of other methods.

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…

Since life 360 has also been failing you, it sounds like there may be cell tower issues in your neighborhood, so you might want to look at some of the Wi-Fi options. Or it might be settings on her phone, but hopefully someone with the same model will have some ideas on that.