I have personally been using this since 2017 and everything works great for me.
If you have any problems, I’m happy to help 
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Hi again, I’m not sure to have correct understand. Now the smartapp work only with wifi and Bluetooth?
Do I need to be connected to the home WiFi network to be located at home? (or a selected Bluetooth device) Did I understand correctly?
The easiest way to use this is to select your home wifi networks. When your phone is connected to any of those networks then you will be marked as at home. Make sure you have “home location” checked if that location is home. That checkmark defines the presence attribute on the device.
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Thank you, now I understand. Unfortunately this is nota best solution for my situation, becouse the wifi in my house is not all time good and sametime. The wifi is not good and sometimes i don’t use it even if i’m in ac, so i would be located elsewhere. This is as true for me as it is for my wife. I was hoping there was some sort of location linked to GPS or GSM. Thanks anyway for your work
Hi, im having issues with presence sensor update. In order to update my location (by connection to my home wifi) i need to enter the app and only then it will update if im home/away.
When i disable wifi on my phone and connect with 4G the received massage is “panding update - your location will be update when you have internet connection” and the location isnt updated.
In case i open the presence sensor app it work and show the correct status of arrivre/left home and a massage of “sync seccsesful - seccsesfuly synced with server”
Can you advise how to handle this update issue?
Sounds like maybe the battery optimization settings could be causing a problem. Can you verify that the battery optimization is disabled for the presence sensor app?
Any plans to migrate this wonderful solution to edge? Or it will stop working at end of 9/22?
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So just an update on this…
Still looking into it but it seems like existing Groovy integrations will not stop working at the end of 9/22. They will only disable creating new ones. Might be wrong here but that’s how I took it. Source
Obviously this is not a long term solution but it does seem to buy some time here. It does look like the whole ST edge thing is completely different and will require significant server-side changes. This is a little difficult since this is not just a SmartThings exclusive project anymore. The project is also 5 years old now so maybe it’s time for some changes on the server anyways 
Feel free to like this post to kinda help gauge interest in this. This might be a decent amount of work and I’ve been off of SmartThings for a little while now so it would be nice to see how much interest there really is. Always up for a challenge though. I’ll keep this updated with any progress.
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Another community member has already created an Edge Driver that determines presence based on when an android phone connects or disconnects from the home’s Wi-Fi. It looks like it doesn’t have quite as many features as the project in this thread, and it does require an additional server device, but it May be helpful for some people. 
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Thanks, I was looking for something that doesn’t need additional servers myself. I do not like the localized solution via wifi, because my phone often disconnects if the quality is not excellent. I keep hoping that some genius will be able to reintegrate life 360 because it is the only thing currently that always works. The location of smarthings often gives me problems, either on my phone or on my wife’s, something is not detected every day. Sometimes leaving the house, sometimes returning home … an agony for home automation
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For Android phones, there is an android option using Tasker and SharpTools that doesn’t require any additional tools. But you do have to use more third party apps. 
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I’m with @Diegocampy . I also prefer a solution that doesn’t need extra server and Python. I really liked @johndc7 Improved Mobile Presence that only need an Android app , Smart App and a Device Handler. I wish John will eventually find some time to convert his Presence Sensor to Edge. My fingers are crossed 
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@johndc7 any news ?