Been using Hassio in two homes now for almost a year. I’ve been able to implement everything I need, including a custom built monitor that tells me how much heating propane are in my tanks outside. The only thing that I just can’t get working reliably is basic presence detection. I don’t need it to be instant or accurate to the point where it knows whether I’m in the house or not, within a mile of it is fine, and I don’t want to deal with the wifi/bluetooth options.
The webhook geofence options would do the trick- I’ve been using GeoFency, except that the cellular signal at both the homes I use HA at is very poor. So very often, almost half the time, when entering or exiting the geofence, our phones notify us but because the signal is poor the webhook notifications fail. I’ve tried changing the geofence to a lot of different ranges, but none of them have been reliable in either location. All I really need would be for the notification to be held until a cellular or wifi signal is established. Geofency doesn’t seem to have an option for this.
I realize that implementing such a feature would probably need to be implemented as a retry-until-it-webhook-doesn’t-fail hack (as opposed to an IOS automation that triggers the action when data access becomes available) but it would definitely still work for those of us in spotty coverage areas. Anyone know if there is another app that will do this- or if it’s possible to implement this hack myself somehow?
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