IOS Presence and Automations Hopelessly Broken (July 2023)

[h0ckeysk8er (Bruce Pinsky)]

@mzp

I have had something similar setup for years without issue. But for some reason it will never work for me now. Routines seem to be useless for the presence sensor events.

Many people find ST location tracking is not very reliable and have switched to using other methods such as Alexa or IFTTT. Long discussion about presence in this topic.

Presence in 2023, including multiple members and multiple locations

I’m really glad you mentioned Linked Places. That is something I was trying to figure out just the other day because I wanted to do something similar: have a separate ‘neightborhood’ location defined that would give me the ability to have triggers when I’m ‘near’ home. I’m on iOS, and the app does allow you to configure a linked place, but it wouldn’t allow me to set up an automation, saying something about requiring all mobile devices to be Galaxy phones. So I thought it was a dead end. But if anyone knows better, I’d be interested. Right now I think the only way to accomplish cross-location automations is with a SmartApp or other 3rd party app.