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With all these meetings, I won't have any time to be addicted any more!

There is a saying in the radio controlled model airplane community.. "I'm not addicted to flying RC. I can stop any time I want to.... I just don't want to." I think it applies to home automation as well.

Talk about fast paced learning! It had only been a few days and I am into this big time. It is like some kind of addiction. A soon as I implement one capability it's, "OK. What's next!" All that is missing is a sinister laugh along with the wringing of hands. Anyway, I moved away from UDI Mobile and now do it with IFTTT and Webhooks. It took a while for things to settle down as I tweaked but it looks like everything is working as it should. I found that it was important to have a relatively large GeoFence to have everything work reliably. (In my case, the radius is about 1/4 mile.) Now, my garage doors close after I have left the area if I forget to close them before I leave (although with all this effort, I will probably never forget again) and the floodlights come on in the driveway when I enter the area if it is between sunset and sunrise. Cool stuff. Gotta go now. The Raspberry Pi just arrived to be used for PolyGlot (MmuuuuAhhhhaaaa)

Well then, this is really bizarre. I spent a good part of the afternoon setting up a program that was supposed to detect when I crossed into the GeoFence. When that happened, it was supposed to enable and run a program to turn on the driveway flood lights for 5 minutes and then turn them off but only between sunset and sunrise. I got it all set up and only tested it by manually setting the state of my occupancy on and off. I never tested it by actually crossing the GeoFence. I had to run an errand and when I while I was gone, sunset occurred. As I drove up to the driveway, lo and behold, the lights when on! So for an ap that doesn't work, it worked pretty well. Better than I thought it would especially because of the settings issues I mentioned above. I checked the links you attached. No clear solution. I can't imagine that there isn't something being used that is reliable. What about the location service in IFTTT. (I haven't done any IFTTT stuff yet.)

I am very new to all of this (just two days) but have gotten very far along after ditching the Insteon hub. I am thrilled with all the options I know have. Probably more by accident than by skill, I managed to install UDI Mobile on my phone and set up a GeoFence for my home. I also manged to connect it to ISY via the portal node server and Occupancy v2.0 (with UDI mobile). My presence (Android phone) shows up in ISY and have written a few simple programs that use this information. My questions are: Do I understand the settings in the app correctly? The phone pushes my status (in or out of the GeoFence) at intervals set in the app, like 15 minutes and that it will not report distance changes less than 100m? And reducing these settings reduces battery life? I guess I figured this app would work differently. The phone always know where it is and since it also know where the GeoFence is, why doesn't it just report when the GeoFence is crossed, once in and once out? Or am I thinking about this all wrong. Should I be using a different app to setup my GeoFence and report to ISY when I have crossed into or out of it? Thanks.

Thanks for the quick answer. I guess that means I don't even have to relist it in the portal.

After plenty of frustrating hours with the Insteon hub, it is now gone and replaced with ISY. What a world that has now opened up! After a day, I am surprisingly far along. All of my devices (Insteon, Philips, Amazon) are in the new system. Scenes have been created in ISY and routines have been created in Alexa to where everything works as it used to (except for the quirkiness from the Insteon hub.) Here is my question... I understand that scenes created in ISY have to go through the portal to be found by Alexa. No problem but what do I need to do when I just want to change a scene. The name of the scene stays the same as does the spoken phrase. Do I have to delete the scene in Alexa and from the portal and reload the new version? Thanks.