Hi there! My first post here so please let me know if i can add some info or anything else!
I’ve tried looking around the topics and googling in general but i haven’t found exactly my question.
My situation is, i’m using Nabu Casa to know when the people in my house are home to run certain automations or not.
The first problem, the default zone for home is too wide, i dont want HA to think im home when im 100m away? I have some stores and shops that close (i’m in an apartment).
The 2nd problem, i created a 2nd zone that i use for Home, which is around 35m in diameter, but the problem is that it seems that nabu casa relies only on GPS to detect if im home or not, and both my phone and my wife’s GPS put us right on the edge of the 35m area. So, simple automation liek turning some lights on and off while im at home are not working because HA thinks im outside.
How come HA can’t detect im home by just checking that my phone is on the same network as the server?
Is there anythin i can do to fix this?
Bonus question, suddenly my macbook air is also showing up in the map, i dont need that so how do i disable that?
Some images for help (couldn’t add my 2nd image where i test my “am i home” step and it fails, while sitting at home)
EDIT: I’m feeling more puzzled now because the Device page for the IPhone shows “Home” and i even see the log “was deteced at home 5min ago” but when i test the automation it doesn’t pass. Here’s the YAML for it.
alias: Luz de noche - Javi
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: time
at: "22:30:00"
condition:
- condition: device
device_id: 27d772b6176d34df3f629ad1000c5992
domain: device_tracker
entity_id: 7ade941e867799a604a6c1fc748e8346
type: is_home action:
- type: turn_on
device_id: 18715655904fa05d0769dd58bad55084
entity_id: ba8e223e28ca20c45f64f300bf774b32
domain: light
brightness_pct: 30
mode: single
EDIT2: I tried expanding the home zone to envelop what i shows as teh area for my phone, but the automation still says “condition did not pass” for the “is_home” value.
Also tried removing the server from the phone, and removing the device from the Mobile App Service to set it again from scratch, still showing “home” in the Diagnostic but not passing for the automation condition im clueless
EDIT3: I Went into the mobile app devices list, and hit reload on my iphone and now it detects correctly at home, i will come back and let you know if i see that this happens again and maybe get some help on how to handle this issue.
But for now, thanks for the help and the nice ideas for other approaches