Presence Detector

[JDRoberts]

@mykey38

My Android phone works fine as a presence sensor but for some reason my wifes Iphone and my daughters iphone register as being at home even when they arent and the recent tab shows zero activity which is going to cause me marital strife.

Do you have three separate SmartThings accounts, each one active on only one device?

If you are also signed into SmartThings on a tablet and a tablet stays home, that can throw everything off. Or if you used your own SmartThings account to sign in on your wife’s phone, that creates problems as well.

Also, the SmartThings presence App requires that the phone have Internet access and a data plan. We have had some community members in the past who had children with those that did not have a data plan and the presence feature did not work for those devices.

The following might be of interest:

Setting up multiple iPhones (separate linked accounts) as presence sensors for dummies

This is a how-to for newbies like me to set up a second linked iPhone (your wife’s/husband’s/partner’s/kid’s/mistress’s). Some of the steps are redundant and may not be required but no there is no harm in double checking. Follow these steps: Double check wifi is enabled. No brainer. Double check your wife/husband/partner/kid/mistress is set up with correct location(address) with the correct phone number on iPhone including Home, Mobile and iPhone numbers. Confirm with Siri by asking. Enable Location Services for most gps apps you trust. As per some thread, this helps in geofencing. (How?) Launch Map app on iPhone. It should bring up the correct location/address. Install SmartThings app from App Store on the second device. Register with the second email address (the perso…