Mobile Presence sensors no longer working

[DaWeav]

I recently had issues with presence in my Galaxy S8+ Android smartphone. I tried using a few virtual presence devices. One tied to Google Home’s Home and Away geolocation in their app to toggle the virtual presence device On/Off for Present and Away. And the other virtual presence device tied to Amazon Alexa’s app with Alexa Routines doing the same geolocation On/Off for Present and Away.

The results for Google Home where completely hit and miss, and even caused some false triggers when I was at home and it triggered that I was Away all of a sudden for whatever reason.

The results for Amazon Alexa were about 60-70 percent off the time it worked.

I also setup Tasker to just trigger a notification when Tasker was in my home geolocation, and Tasker worked every time.

Anyway, before I took the time to setup Tasker to trigger a virtual presence device using a http request action to the SmartThings API, I got a new S22+, and it’s geolocation is working in the SmartThings app. I also changed both Google Home’s and Amazon Alexa’s routines to the new smartphone, and they both seem to be working every time so far as well, except Google is still falsely triggering Away occasionally when I’m at home.

So, my results show for me that using Tasker as a geolocation backup is the way to go, and I’ll use an http request action to the SmartThings API directly to toggle a backup virtual presence device.

Reference for using a Tasker http request action to the SmartThings API by @orangebucket

Present Phone Battery Charge % To Be Used as Trigger

If you are going down the Tasker route you could just turn a charger on and off using an API call. An alternative would be to create a virtual battery device (I use the @TAustin driver) and update that using the API. I favour the latter as it gives you the battery and power source in SmartThings where it really ought to be already. Here is an example of an HTTP Request in Tasker. It requires knowledge of the device ID in UUID form, and also a suitably scoped Personal Access Token for the bearer authorization. [Screenshot_20220605-114907]