Use wifi reconnection to trigger unlock of front door

[desertblade (Ben W)]

There is also a setting “Keep Wifi On during Sleep” that may be checked. Found an article from 2011 so its been around for at least that long. Wifi and GPS are the 2 biggest drains (behind Screen on) on phones. Doze was made to prevent apps from waking up wifi (and other services like GPS) and killing the battery life.

I have done this test a few times. Leave my phone with screen off for 30 or so minutes, open live logging, and unlock my phone. I usually see a message in the IDE about my android just arriving. That is part of the reason I am hesitant of using a mobile device to unlock doors on events.

I was doing some research last night on beacons and iOS has a beaconThings app that integrates into SmartThings.

BeaconThings - Beacons and SmartThings

We’ve released another iOS app called BeaconThings! This app allows you to easily integrate iBeacons into your SmartThings smart home. Here’s how it works: You place iBeacons throughout your home/office/wherever (we like these beacons from Radius Networks) Use BeaconThings to register these beacons with SmartThings. They work just like presence sensors. The app sends updates to SmartThings when it enters/leaves the range of those beacons. Everything happens in the background. Once the beacons are registered, you never open BeaconThings again! Create SmartApps or SmartRules to make your home take actions based on these beacons. The first version of the app is available now on the App Store. This version searches for beacons with a pre-defined UUID. After discussions with early users, we …

May try to set something like this up on Android this summer. Signul is out there but uses IFTT for ST integration and needs batteries.

http://signul.io/