[SOLVED] Android reporting incorrect presence after wireless router or home location change

[destructure00 (Chris)]

SmartThings app mobile presence isn’t great. IFTTT is far worse. I used to have an IFTTT mobile presence boundary that I used to turn my Vacation Mode switch off when I came within about 100 miles of my house. Even at this range, the accuracy was spotty. The applet ran more than once when I was halfway across the country, and frequently showed me leaving and arriving when I was less than 10 miles from home.

Here’s an alternative if you feel like going down a different route…

[HOW TO] SmartThings Presence reporting using Tasker/SharpTools/AutoLocation

Update May 9 2017 - I finally have a setup that has been pretty much rock solid for my phone and now my wife’s too. Updating the instructions below to reflect my latest configuration What is this? An alternative way to set presence in SmartThings using your Android phone. This solution uses three separate mobile phone apps, Tasker, SharpTools, and AutoLocation. These are all paid apps, but you’re looking at a total of around $7.50 for all three. Tasker and AutoLocation are eligible for Google Family, so if you are setting up for multiple family devices you only have to buy them once. Why would I do this? Presence sensing in SmartThings relies on your phone to update it’s location using standard Android location services. Even if you set your phone to use High Accuracy location settings, …