I noticed that my homey iOS app doesn’t update my and my housemates presence anymore. I’m not sure when it stoped with it. iOS settings are fine, homey may use exact location always. I’m logged in and receive notifications. My roommate has the same. Same phone. Same iOS version (newest iOS 14). D…

You mean mac-address? Why wouldn’t other location apps not stop working? Or is Homey only relying on an MAC address on the network. Btw, that option is turned off in the WiFi settings.

I never heard of that. And I think it’s quite difficult to communicate without an IP address. This option is by default on: https://support.apple.com/nl-nl/HT211227 Location does work, so it’s still quite strange that the homey app isn’t sending my geofence “interference”, walking in and out.

The Homey app itself can also handle geofencing/presence internally. Smart Presence works using an external “scanner” which relies on your phone getting the same IP-address every time, which is a different thing (and is susceptible to issues when the phone uses a random MAC address, as opposed to th…

I know that, I misunderstood Renzo. In the last post I mentioned Geofencing. So please forget about my posts, I will delete them so that nobody gets confused.

IP-addresses are distributred bij either dhcp or static ones. The physical address is a fixed address of a device: the MAC address. To prevent tracking it is default to randomise that number. While updating to iOS 14, that option is enabled. For your router to give your phone an “static” IP-address…

[image] Rocodamelshekima: Try Locative ! Can’t fault that! 1 year since I started using it.

Although I am not a great fan of pushing another app on my family’s phone, I feel it’s the only solution… is it reliable? Isn’t there a way to extract/use location of apps that I already have and work, like Hue, Honeywell Lyric or HomeKit? It is still no answer why my Homey presence doesn’t work o…

[image] anon61197305: is it reliable? Very! Never missed a single !

Good to hear. I discovered that Homey flipped the “away/home detection”-switch in the settings for both of the users. So the problem is fixed and I will check out that alternative.

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Rocodamelshekima October 20, 2020, 6:34pm 10

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