![]() ![]() Home - Location Service Boundary (1500m centered on your home)Ī. ![]() Home - Departure Boundary (400m radius centered on your home)Ĭ. Home - Arrival Boundary (120m radius centered on your home)ī. Once I leave my location service boundary, Tasker tells AutoLocation to turn off high accuracy mode.Ī. If I am disconnected from wifi and leave my departure boundary, SharpTools tells SmartThings to set me as Not Present. Once I disconnect from my wifi network, Tasker tells AutoLocation to start high accuracy mode again. As long as I stay connected to my home wifi network or I stay inside my departure boundary, I stay Present. When I connect to my home Wifi network, Tasker tells AutoLocation to switch off high accuracy mode. When I arrive home (enter a small 120m radius arrival boundary), Tasker tells SharpTools to set me as Present. Once I am near home (when I enter a large 1500m radius location service boundary), Tasker tells AutoLocation to switch on high accuracy mode and update my location every 3 seconds. AutoLocation stays disabled until I am near home. This setup consists of 3 geofences in AutoLocation, along with 6 profiles with various tasks in Tasker. If you see any issues in the instructions below, please let me know and I will correct. Everyone’s unique circumstances are different, so it may require some tweaking to get things right for your setup. It can also be used to add widgets to your phone’s home screen, but that’s another topic.Įxample AutoLocation setup video - not the same as my setup below, but similar SharpTools is, in this context, a Tasker plugin that allows Tasker automations to control stuff in your SmartThings setup. You can set up profiles in Tasker to turn this location service on and off as needed (higher location accuracy = higher battery drain, so it’s better to keep it off unless needed). AutoLocation is a powerful and flexible location plugin for Tasker that can be set to update location at a set interval using Fused Location services (google it, I’m not up on all the details except it works well). Tasker is the app that you create the rules/automations in (think CoRE, or IFTTT on steroids and with a PhD). How does it work? This setup uses a combination of Tasker, AutoLocation, and Sharptools apps on your Android phone (I’m not aware of an iPhone alternative) to set a virtual presence sensor in SmartThings. There’s also the occasional issues that many have seen with presence getting “stuck” as away, requiring the phone/sensor to be deleted and re-added to ST. This can lead to annoyances like being checked in as Present when you are just driving close by your house, or needing to set a HUGE radius to give your phone enough time to check in, having different phones that need different settings, etc. ![]() Even if you set your phone to use High Accuracy location settings, it only checks in every few minutes to update location, which means that you typically have to set a very large radius circle around your home in order to give your phone enough time to “see” that you are inside the circle before you actually arrive home. Why would I do this? Presence sensing in SmartThings relies on your phone to update it’s location using standard Android location services. 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. These are all paid apps, but you’re looking at a total of around $7.50 for all three. This solution uses three separate mobile phone apps, Tasker, SharpTools, and AutoLocation. What is this? An alternative way to set presence in SmartThings using your Android phone. Updating the instructions below to reflect my latest configuration Update I finally have a setup that has been pretty much rock solid for my phone and now my wife’s too. ![]()
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