I seem to be struggling to find such a smartapp or setup such a routine. There is a Notify me smatapp that works great but does not allow discrimination for whether I am at home or not. I don’t want some motion alerts when I am not at home (yet others are). Any suggestions?
Use modes, at the bottom of the app you can choose what mode to run in
But then the mode may not be correct for everything else. That’s because most of my current apps run under “all” modes. Thus creating a “presence mode” will cause them not to work. Of course I could go back to each smartapp and be more specific about what modes they run in. Is that what you would do to achieve this?
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Yes… That is how to achieve this. Plus the all modes apps should be fine, it never hurts to double check though.
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Hmmm…now what happens when to mode changes at sundown to “night”? My presence mode gets over written.
You have to have multiple modes for all the combinations. It may be more work than you want to do, but it is doable.
For example, I have,:
Day at home
Day Away
Day with guests
Night at home
Night away
Night with guests
Asleep at home asleep with gu away
Day with guests
Night at home
Night away
Night with guests
Asleep at home
asleep with guests
Will work but doesn’t seem best approach as it would be prone to many errors in my HMO. All we need is someone to wright a samrtapp like Notify Me with a presence requirement. or add it to the existing. I’m a newbie at such but maybe Ill give it a try.
Maybe I will try Smartrules for iOS
I would definitely try smartrules, I like it a lot. 
Use the notify me when, at the bottom select what mode you want to be notified in. I set up two instances of this app. One to notify me when I was at home of certain things, and went to notify me when I was away. It has been working great for me.
The OP wants to use presence without using mode.
Smartapps did the trick, easy, fast.
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