Pretty new to SmartThings but not too new to home automation. I’m trying to do something that I was able to do with OpenHAB, but have not found a way to do with ST yet. I have my phone and my wife’s phone set up as presence sensors, which is working fine. What I want to do it set up different things to happen when we are at different locations. For example, flash a light in my office when my wife gets to her work. Or send me a notification when she gets to our kids daycare. Icing on the cake would be to plot our locations real-time on a map using ActionTiles or something. I did this in OH with the iCloud binding, is there something similar in ST?
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I installed webCoRE yesterday but hadn’t really explored it too much yet. I got the app and am in the process of configuring multiple locations now.
So I just tried it by running out to the store a couple miles away and it was horribly inaccurate. It seems that the location won’t update unless I open the webCoRE app which is a real disappointment. Unless I’m doing something wrong I’m going to have to figure out something else. Didn’t want to pay for life360 but I might have to.
At one point I was using the free Life360 (iOS) and modified a version of the Life360 User DTH by tmleafs to also return the latitude and longitude from the generatePresenceEvent function. Never finished working on it (stopped when I saw WebCore Presence get released), but once you have those it’s a “simple” math problem to determine distance from another geographic point.
Update, I uninstalled the WebCoRE app from my phone, deleted the presence sensor from ST and set it all up again, seems to be 1000% better now. It seems to register just as quickly as that ST sensors now and actually knows when I’m home.
The only thing I would request is a way to allow a device as a presence sensor without giving them access to all of my pistons.