Hi, I am currently experiencing a few problems getting Homekit to recognize my phone when it comes near my home. It seems to work for my wife’s iPhone but not my own, and I set her home app up (ha). I have installed the HA app on my iphone as well as being the primary registered user for our Homek…

Thanks, I have gone through it all in the link provided, and everything is verified to be setup correctly. At the moment Homekit is showing occupancy detected in the home. Likely do to the Home Assistant router and bluetooth device_trackers running showing me as home. Nothing is having any effect…

Let’s first figure out where the cause of the problem is located. You’ve created an automation in Homekit, triggering the input_boolean. Does this work when you test the automation in the Home app?

It does. I select “test this automation”, while looking at my Home Assistant UI the boolean switches instantly to on. Reverse is true with the “Leaving” automation test.

So it seems your home(kit) app on your phone does not get your location right or is not able to communicate with homekit hub (ipad, appletv, ipod) when you’re not at home. Did you check this?

HI. have you set up the home assistant companion app on your iphones, as well as the ios component and the apple icloud pressence detection for your devices. these links link helped me alot.

Thanks for the help. I signed out of iCloud altogether, and re-signed in, and it seems to have done the trick, I’ll know more today as I leave home, but yesterday, it accurately knew when I was away, as well, I was able to control lights etc remotely. My user name in Homekit has changed from my fi…

Homekit is presence detection not location tracking like Owntracks. I don’t think it supports different zones as in different locations. That’s probably why the app is called Home :wink:

ha, you are probably right. I was hoping since the iPhone has a “Significant Locations” feature, it was incorporated into Homekit as well. Cloudmqtt/owntracks it will have to be i guess. I’ll have to see if i can set up mqtt from home which would be my preference. Thanks

I am using a combination of modules as stated before, I found the iCloud app useful for zones and alerts me when home or at family’s or friends. The HomeKit app in apple will activate when u arrive or leave locations when setting up the automations in the apple HomeKit iOS app I use this to send ale…

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sjee October 5, 2018, 6:23am 8

@cheynespc but these are totaly different things. Homekit presence has nothing to do with the HA app, IOS component or icloud. Unless I’m mistaken @HiFi wants to use this;