Stormy/hot weather affecting presence sensor?!

[JDRoberts]

@toomuch

JD can you recommend a pocket presence sensor? I have all but given up on my Life 360 and my Iphone presence sensor as means to detect when I arrive at home.

I guess I will be forced do buy the key fobs. Has Smart Home Monitor reliability improved at all? I have not been on the boards lately.

Different things work for different people. The SmartThings branded presence sensor didn’t work at my house, but I’ve had good results with Ibeacons.

FAQ: The Many Ways of Detecting Presence (2020)

Presence, regardless of the device you use, is one of those features that works great for some people, not at all for other people, and is randomly flaky for still others. It’s very much affected by local conditions. So some people will find that phone presence works much better than the SmartThings-branded presence sensor. Other people will find the reverse. Still other people, myself included, find that they have to use a combination of two devices in order to get reliable presence indication. So if this feature tends to work differently for different people, where do you start? 1. Using a Smart Phone as a Presence Indicator [image] Well, since most people who have SmartThings have a smart phone, it’s worth starting there. This method has changed significantly in the change fro…