Geolocation unreliable?

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
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I have the iOS app running side-by-side with OwnTracks, or not actually running but installed and have two zones setup, home and work.
OwnTracks notifies me on zone changes as far as I can tell everytime, while the HA-app have a hit ratio of maybe 33%.

I have removed OwnTracks from my HS setup so it’s running fully standalone but with the same zones.

Have anyone else noticed that or even have a suggestion if it has something todo with my setup?

2

I’m thinking that the enter/exit notifications may be a bit flaky. Can you add an automation to your system to send a notification from Home Assistant to the phone whenever the device_tracker.see event is fired? I’ll do the same and see what happens.

3

Will do boss! :grin:

4

How would that event trigger look?
Like this?

- alias: 'Test'
  trigger:
    - platform: zone
      entity_id: device_tracker.see
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- alias: 'Test'
  trigger:
    - platform: event
      event: device_tracker.see
6

How can I test that it works correctly?
I restarted HA which sets me as “away”, the manually sent my position through the app so I got marked as “Home”, but that’t didn’t trigger the new automation?

7

Hmmm, weird. I’m unsure right now, will check when I get home.

8

Did you find anything @robbiet480?

9

Any updates? Most of the times I have to open the app for it to send my location and iPhone stats… it would be great if you could find a way to fix this :slight_smile: