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[joshua_lyon (Josh, SharpTools.io Dashboard)]

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I don’t know if the simulated presence can be manipulated directly using Sharptools… I didn’t try it, I already had the presence switch for other things, so I kept using it.

Yes, SharpTools can directly control the arrived() and departed() commands of a Simulated Presence Device:

Here’s some documentation on taking an approach similar to yours with WiFi Near:

SmartThings Custom Presence

And a SmartThings community member put together a really nice profile using GeoFences with AutoLocation which provides high precision presence detection with low battery consumption:

[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, …

This can help you reliably trigger presence based events in webCoRE.