I have a 3 mile zone around our house called ‘almost home’. I have an automation that announces over the speaker when myself or my wife is in the ‘almost home’ zone. So for example, my wife is home and I just entered the ‘almost home’ zone, over the speakers it will say “Jim is almost home”.
It works great for me. For my wife, over half the time, she is literally pulling into the garage when the speaker announcement happens.
I check her device tracker entity and confirm that the tracker was just updated from away to almost home. So its NOT an automation delay. The automation does what it should. For some reason, she is not being marked in the “almost home” zone when she should be. I cant figure out why.
Me and her have the same Android phones. HA permissions are setup the same on both of them, which is Location is set to “All the time” and “Use Precise location”. Battery saving is disable for the HA app.
That is likely phone related.
Try changing things like battery usage of the app, precise vs. less precise location, stuff like that. Not sure which. Maybe someone has a better idea as well.
Can’t you use high accuracy mode while in the car?
You can set the phone to enter high accuracy mode while it’s connected to a Bluetooth device or by sending a notification
@nappyjim did you find a solution to this? I have the same problem with my wife and it is annoying. It does not allow me to turn on / off certain automations. She changed phone recently, to a brand new Google Pixel 9a and it seems that my location works perfect and her is super slow to update.
