I never could get the SmartThings geolocation to work well. It works great for some people, but that didn’t help at my house. I ended up going to an IBeacon system instead, but I use iOS devices, so it was a good fit.
Continuing the discussion from Smart Presence Sensor randomly "leaving" and "returning" :
Battery life is fine on my presence fob, but I still get random drop-offs with both the fob and the phone presence.
Using an idea from @DigitalM0nkey , I am changing over the way I use presence sensing for all activities. I’m now using dual devices at the geo-fence barrier, as well as a virtual presence sensor for better continuous occupancy indication.
Basically I’m trying both reduce the range and improve reliability by using two devices that will be recognized in sequence rather than both at the same time.
So this is how it will work at my house now:
Smartthings recognizes that my phone or the fob, mainly the fob , has entered the Geo fenced area. but nothing else happens yet. I do not tri…
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