Today I got an answer from Athom regarding the Home/Away issue when using the Homey App on a iPhone with iOS15 or later.
Athom is aware of this issue and created a support ticket at Apple.
The problem presented by IOS.15 is the following, to give you some background information by Athom:
"Our app transmits the location of your house to your iPhone (a geofence). The iPhone then keeps track of where a user goes etc. When you enter or leave that zone of the house (the geofence), it should let the Homey app know. The problem now is that when our app is closed, the iPhone should first start our app in the background so that it can forward this message. Starting our app by your iPhone sometimes works/sometimes not. Due to this randomness, flows and background tasks don’t work as they should and that’s what Apple will have to fix in a new iOS update.
The only workaround there is is to always leave the Homey app on in the background, but that is not a nice workable situation and that is why an update from Apple really needs to follow. "
I also asked why other apps on my iPhone which using geofence as well do not have this issue. The answer from Athom on my question is:
"Unfortunately, we have no insight into how other apps are composed, but Tado probably uses a different API in connection with geofencing. It’s not all apps that have been affected by this iOS update, but quite a few.
Because it may take a while before this issue is included by Apple in a new iOS update, I hereby close the ticket. We will do our best to notify all users who reported the issue as soon as this fix is available."
So… we have to wait and I suppose a long time before it will be solved…
