Hi everyone,
I currently have a fairly simple home automation where it checks the number of people in the Home zone, and based on the result it turns lights on/off and sets various other things; basically just a simple thing for turning the lights off when no one is home, and turning them on when I get back home. The location is simply based on the HA companion app on my Android phone.
Now this works well 99% of the time, but I have two problematic cases:
- Sometimes the location doesn’t update in time, so I step into a completely dark apartment. I can usually work around this by manually opening the app or something like Google Maps to trigger a location update; so this is more just an inconvenience.
- The worst case scenario: what if my phone runs out of battery? In this case there would be no way to update my location.
I would like to ask advice on what the best solution to this issue might be! Something like installing a smart button near the entrance, pressing which would forcefully set myself to be Home, would solve the issue, but I’m not sure how to implement that. Or is there maybe a better solution?
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