iPhone presence detection not longer working

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
#1

Not sure when it broke, but at least three or four core updates ago. I have automations that send me push notifications from PIR sensors when I’m not home. I’m using an iPhone for presence detection. Here is one of my automations:

- alias: Sensor Board-1 Family Room PIR
  initial_state: true
  trigger:
  - platform: state
    entity_id: binary_sensor.sb_1_motion
    to: 'on'
  condition:
  - condition: state
    entity_id: device_tracker.keith
    state: not_home
    #state: home
  action:
    service: notify.mobile_app_keith
    data:
      message: Family room PIR has detected motion
      data:
        push:
          sound: Family room motion just tripped.wav
#2

I am not sure that presence issues are just limited to the iPhone. I noticed on my Android phone that my automations that should be triggered when I enter my “home zone” are being triggered when I am at home. I looked at the logs and noticed it is detecting the wrong location.

Like you, I found that this seems to have started to occur about 3 updates ago.

To be honest, I have found HA to be kind of unreliable lately. I have to ask Alexa twice or toggle the switch in the app twice in order to turn on lights. This also seems to coincide with the last couple of releases.

#3

I’m glad I’m not alone on this one. I now have disabled all of push notification automations until this gets fixed.

I, too, have witnessed other issues with HA in the past 6 months.

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#4

Presence detection now working. See forum post: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/service-notify-mobile-app-gone/459172/3