Too much Delay using Presence to trigger Lights

[CJM]

Using Automate Light and Switches
Select Trigger = Presence
Goal is to get Light to switch on when somebody arrives home. Issue is that there is too much of a delay in the switch from Away to Present, so action occurres too late.

Also tried using Motion sensor as the trigger, but then cannot figure out how to trigger the action only when coming and not going.

[JDRoberts]

There are a lot of things that can be adjusted to manage geopresence triggers, it just depends on your specific needs and set up .

What presence Indicator are you using? Just the regular SmartThings mobile app? The smartthings arrival sensor fob? Life 360 or IFTTT presence on the phone?

Are you triggering other events based on arrival?

[CJM]

Presence indicator is my Samsung 7 Edge with the Smartthings mobile App. Not aware of the IFTTT option.

[JDRoberts]

This might be of interest. It covers a number of different ways of indicating presence, including the IFTTT option.

FAQ: The Many Ways of Detecting Presence

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? 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. The following FAQ runs through the the usual troubleshooting…

[CJM]

Thank you very helpfull. For my purposes I think just adjusting the radius will do the trick. That way Presence will be detected early enough to activate the switch. Not that concerned about deactivation delay, so this should work well. Will give it a shot.

[nathanendress (Nate)]

You may also want to look into this. I’ve found IFTTT to be too unreliable for me. I’ve been using this solution for a few days and monitoring it against my phone and Life360. It has outperformed both.

[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, …

[steve_t]

I had issues using my phone as the presence sensor while using SHM on my old router.
I got an Orbi Mesh router system, which extended my wifi coverage through my whole house including the furthest parts of the garage. One of the triggers for updating the location of your phone is connection to a wifi network. Now my presence works reliably all the time. I also have an S7 Edge. No need for a 3rd party app IMO

[diodorus]

Hi can you tell me how you detect presence using orbi (and no 3rd party applications)? I have one too. Thanks