I've given up on presence sensors

[JDRoberts]

@sidjohn1

Double check your zigbee firmware on your hub. i noticed some serious improvements when i got up dated to 1.5.4 from 1.3.x. Support ran the upgrade due to some other unrelated zigbee device weirdness. It certainly can’t hurt

I’ve had 1.5.4 for awhile, it isn’t that. Like I said, I’ve been working with Support on this for awhile.

I’ve now switched over to using iBeacons, thanks to help from @DavGlass who wrote a proof of concept SmartApp for me. Working very well, although it does require an iOS device and the $9 Beecon+ receiving station app. I have the iBeacon turn on/off a virtual SmartThings switch, then use that for my presence indicator. I especially like the fact that I can limit the range to just a few yards, which fits my use case very well.

Mobile Presence and iBeacon (discussion beginning 2015)

Using iBeacons with SmartThings @DavGlass made a “proof of concept” smartapp for me that allows me to use an iBeacon to flip a SmartThings switch on or off. Since this could be a virtual switch, it can also be used with the Big Switch for Hello Home Actions to do all kinds of stuff. Or used with IFTTT. Or, of course, if you want to modify the code, this proof of concept can be used as the basis for many different SmartThings interactions and much more complex smartapps. The POC SmartApp only asks for the detection range you want to use, and the switch you want to turn on or off. You can get it from Dave’s GitHub: My very deep thanks to Dave for working this up for me! It has immediate practical use in my house, and I’m sure will be the basis for many other creat…