Has anyone every seen this happen? I’m currently at work, with my iPhone, but my SmartThings Hub thinks my iPhone is at home. I left for work this morning and about 10/15 minutes into my drive to work I get a notice saying “I’m Back” ran because my phone came home. I’m looking at the recent acti…

[image] ogiewon: Do you have WiFi enabled on your phone? Geolocation works much better with WiFi enabled. Just another thought… I understand that geolocation works better with wifi on, and yes wifi is enabled, but that doesn’t apply to the arrival sensor. When it was working correctly, usi…

[image] cstory777: I set the activity timeout to 0. What “Activity timeout” did you set to 0? I am still not following what you changed or where you changed it. The Hub’s Presence Sensor Timeout is what ST uses to determine how long to wait, after losing the zigbee signal from the ST Presen…

[image] ogiewon: [image] cstory777: I set the activity timeout to 0. What “Activity timeout” did you set to 0? I am still not following what you changed or where you changed it. The Hub’s Presence Sensor Timeout is what ST uses to determine how long to wait, after losing the zigbee sign…

Ahhh… That helps. Thanks for clarifying that. As a separate troubleshooting step, you could create a custom Smart Home Monitor monitoring rule. With SHM you can get a push/SMS notification when any presence sensor “arrives or leaves.” This might help diagnose the difference between Presence Det…

[image] ogiewon: As a separate troubleshooting step, you could create a custom Smart Home Monitor monitoring rule. With SHM you can get a push/SMS notification when any presence sensor “arrives or leaves.” This might help diagnose the difference between Presence Detection issues and Routine Ac…

The newer arrival sensors use the arrival-sensor-ha.groovy device type. With this device, the presence timeout is set in the device preferences in the mobile app. The default is 2 minutes but you can set the timeout to 2, 3, or 5 minutes. For the older arrival sensors, which use the arrival-sensor.…

If you’re still seeing this issue - do you have a new router or public IP address for your internet connection? See this post in case any of it applies to you and how to solve it. [image] Phone presence sensor gone rogue? General Discussion Calling Rogue One for assistan…

[image] RBoy: If you’re still seeing this issue - do you have a new router or public IP address for your internet connection? No new hardware, no new IP.

here’s a way to manually force status: [image] Force Change status of mobile presence sensor? Automation Ideas My wife’s android phone is connected to ST as a presence sensor. Occasionally it dosen’t show away when she leaves the house. Is there a way I can force or updat…

I’m about to rip SmartThings out of my life… Tonight it has now thought my arrival sensor has left 4 times while I’ve been sitting here on the couch. This isn’t an iPhone thing, this isn’t an “arrival sensor is better” thing… This is a SmartThings is crap thing!

Smarttings Hub thinks my iPhone is "Home" but it is not

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Smartphi August 9, 2017, 4:06pm 65

here’s a way to manually force status:

not ideal but maybe this jumps starts it to work again.

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Smarttings Hub thinks my iPhone is "Home" but it is not

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