I have been searching and only finding threads about this from 6 years ago so I think I am trying to do something that maybe can be done a much simpler way. I want to change a switch based on my phone being connected to my router. I’m guessing but maybe this is a legacy thing people did and now th…

What brad and model is your router? There may be an IFTTT integration. I use an old App called HostPinger running on a Pi3 however, it’s Groovy based which will eventually be put to rest.

I have the 3rd gen hub but I would only like to do this using smartthings not IFTTT

[image] Travis_Klein: I have the 3rd gen hub but I would only like to do this using smartthings not IFTTT Knowing which SmartThings hub you have is good, but for this particular use case it’s actually more important to know the brand and model of your WiFi router. Some routers make this easy;…

it’s a surfboard sbg10 I use android thanks for the help I think I realized the problem on why I’m only finding threads that are 6 years old. People have moved on from smartthings just like samsung has.

Hi - You might want to check this out: [image] GitHub - toddaustin07/phonepresence: Experimental programs to track mobile... Experimental programs to track mobile phone presence on home LAN - GitHub - toddaustin07/phonepresence: Experimental programs to track mobile phone presence on hom…

I am not aware of a way of doing this just within SmartThings. It always needs that extra bit of help. It is particularly frustrating on phones that are running the SmartThings app as they are already reporting presence so why not report other useful stuff too, such as battery level and the WiFi con…

thank you all for the help! I came here because of the problems with smartthings being able to be accurate with my phone’s location in “members” and I read about other peoples problems with it. I will be moving on to Home Assistant, which I’m reading is much more accurate, but at the expense of be…

@TAustin , I can confirm that this works GREAT with Android phones. Thank you for all of your great work! :+1:

Since your on android. Have you looked into Tasker? I’m not sure if there is an edge driver yet for it’s connection to Smartthings through Sharptools? (I need to look into that too) but I used to trigger events using it when my phone connected and disconnected from my WiFi. But I really don’t see …

Phone Connect To Wifi Event

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TAustin January 19, 2022, 9:58pm 6

Hi - You might want to check this out:

Although it was created to address the iphone problem, I don’t know of any reason why it wouldn’t work with Andriod, which are actually more reliable for detecting connection to the LAN.

Samrtphone as presence sensor

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