I have been experiencing issues with using my iPhone as my presence sensor. I have read other posts and it seems that I’m not the only one with an issue but no one has come to any conclusion how to resolve the problem. I have an LFM-20 hooked up to my garage and it is set to open when I arrive “Hom…

I’ve had problems in the past and they were resolved (mostly) by setting up a second account for my iPad so that I didn’t share accounts across devices, making sure to keep the battery over 10% and allowing quite a few apps that I’m comfortable with to access my location via background app refresh a…

I’ve found that the presence sensor fobs are much more responsive for things like this. We keep a fob in each car and use that to control garage doors and use the phones to track things like “Everyone has left the house, turn off the lights”.

Figures that you would have to buy a presense tag for this to work better. I’m having issues with my Note 3 taking a long time (already in the house) before it recognizes I’m home. Maybe try un-installing your presence (phone) and starting over? My wife has an iphone 5s and it works beautifully.

My iPhone consistently works but it still takes a random amount of time to work sometimes which is frustrating. I wish ST team would just detect if a device joined my wifi such as my phone instead of trying to rely on location services, I feel as if that’d be more reliable and the polling device wo…

I agree with Chris Leblanc. I’m having recognition issues with my iphone. furthermore, with the current setup using a gps geofence, if we drive by our house not intending to come home (we live in a city on a major avenue), smartthings will set to home and open our door lock, which is annoying and …

Also finding the iPhone app to be very unreliable for presence sensing. I’ve got it set to text me and notify me when I leave or return. Works great for a few days, then fails to trigger at all for several days. Then randomly starts working again. Very odd… I did this to test the notification/ t…

It appears that my iphone is not reliable but wife’s is for presence sensing??? well at least I’m not (completely) crazy, motion detectors are not turning on devices but see motion. They don’t know I’ve returned because still in away mode. Suggestions?

First question is hope you are not sharing the same account!

I’m noticing an issue here also. I just recently setup a SmartThings hub. I have yet seen the iPhone app automatically switch from Home to Away mode. Is there something in either with the application setup or with iPhone settings that I need to check through to make sure everything is configured…

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