I have this strange thing going on trying to make sense (and use) proximity in my automations. When I use 2 different proximities (with the same home zone). One will tell me I’ve arrived but the other will remain “stationary” with a distance of zero. (it should be arrived as well).
Anybody got an idea of what I’m doing wrong? Or is this simply a undocumented feature?
proximity.home 0 dir_of_travel: arrived
nearest: N’s iphone6s, G’s iPhone7
unit_of_measurement: km
friendly_name: home
I have never used proximity, so can’t comment on that, but I do use zones, and use two apps on my phone to track the location in the zones: Owntracks and the home assistant iphone app. On top of that I have iConnectHue also tracking when I get home and turn on lights. All three have the exact same GPS location for home set, and the same tolerance (500m)
To test them, i have notifications set when I enter and leave zones.
I find that even while all three apps are on the same phone - so using the same location and triggers - they all respond differently.
iConnectHue is by far the most accurate, but unfortunately that only controls my Hue lights and nothing else.
Second is Owntracks.and last is the iphone app.
From what you describe it sounds like you’re using two different phones, so I can only imagine that if my experiences within the same phone are that different, it would be even worse with two separate phones (even if they are glued together).
BTW, proximity looks really interesting, so I’m looking into that now!
Thanks for your insight… Accuracy is not really an issue, it shows I’m 0 Km from the zone. The point is: at that moment it should say “arrived” and not “stationary”. Weird stuff…
