# Homey App active or closed te register presence

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/homey-app-active-or-closed-te-register-presence/7598>\
**Category:** Apps\
**Created:** [January 21, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-app-active-or-closed-te-register-presence/7598 "2019-01-21T15:44:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Ype](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ype/32/8406_2.png) [@Ype](https://community.homey.app/u/Ype)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 3:44pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-app-active-or-closed-te-register-presence/7598/1 "2019-01-21T15:44:15Z")

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does anybody know if the new homey app has to be active on the device to detect presence.

My wife came home to day from work and the app on my Phone did not register her as “home”. When i opened the app on her phone i had a pushnote that she was home. Also the timeline showed she was home

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**Author:** ![Ype](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/ype/32/8406_2.png) [@Ype](https://community.homey.app/u/Ype)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2019, 5:33pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/homey-app-active-or-closed-te-register-presence/7598/3 "2019-01-21T17:33:01Z")

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Dont you think is searched for that. ? The only thing i could find was About iT should be better in 2.0  
Get al Little sick of people with this kind of comments in this community