apostolakisl Posted February 16, 2023 Posted February 16, 2023 There has got to be a reliable geofence app out there. I have tried UDI mobile, Tasker, and Alexa. None of them work reliably. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. If I open UDI mobile and hit it to refresh location, it gets it right, but half of the time it just pays no attention to your location until you click on it, which of course defeats the purpose. Alexa doesn't really work much at all. Tasker is set to report when I log into my wifi, that just sometimes pays no attention either. There has got to be an app for Android that you can set a geofence and have it reliably post to the ISY URL.
DennisC Posted February 16, 2023 Posted February 16, 2023 I have been using Tasker for several years for both myself and my wife and it has been very reliable. May I ask, have you followed the outline in the wiki and are you using 2 geofences per location, a small and a large?
apostolakisl Posted February 16, 2023 Author Posted February 16, 2023 5 minutes ago, DennisC said: I have been using Tasker for several years for both myself and my wife and it has been very reliable. May I ask, have you followed the outline in the wiki and are you using 2 geofences per location, a small and a large? Tasker I am using logging into wifi. Right now, I am logged into the wifi that is supposed to send the url, but it did not. I will look at the other way to use Tasker, but I want to say I tried that years ago and had issues, but let me look again. It seems like however, that there should just be an simple app that upon entering a geofence posts a url.
DennisC Posted February 16, 2023 Posted February 16, 2023 Just now, apostolakisl said: Tasker I am using logging into wifi. Right now, I am logged into the wifi that is supposed to send the url, but it did not. I will look at the other way to use Tasker, but I want to say I tried that years ago and had issues, but let me look again. It seems like however, that there should just be an simple app that upon entering a geofence posts a url. I understand about the desire for a quick, easy, and reliable app, but I never found one. When I first set location home/away with Tasker I had some issues, but after some tweaking, it has been very reliable. We have been using this set up for more than 5 years (?) and it has been solid for at least 4-5.
Athlon Posted February 16, 2023 Posted February 16, 2023 One of the variables is your phone, of course. I've been using Alexa for a couple of years now. It would miss me entering the 'zone' about 10% of the time with my Pixel 3a. Since I upgraded a few months ago to a Pixel 6 Pro it hasn't missed once. I see it as extremely reliable. I did enlarge the 'circle' around my home a bit from the default. Both my wife and I have always had the same model phones, and we both experienced the same thing with the older and newer Pixels. Anyway - that's been my experience.
apostolakisl Posted February 16, 2023 Author Posted February 16, 2023 56 minutes ago, Athlon said: One of the variables is your phone, of course. I've been using Alexa for a couple of years now. It would miss me entering the 'zone' about 10% of the time with my Pixel 3a. Since I upgraded a few months ago to a Pixel 6 Pro it hasn't missed once. I see it as extremely reliable. I did enlarge the 'circle' around my home a bit from the default. Both my wife and I have always had the same model phones, and we both experienced the same thing with the older and newer Pixels. Anyway - that's been my experience. I can understand that, but I have an S22, pretty much the latest and greatest. Other geo apps like life 360 seem to always work. And UDI mobile is always correct, but for some reason it just doesn't automatically send when I cross in/out. But it always knows where I am. My Tesla always knows where it is and all the geo-fences on it work great (like opening my garage door and raising the suspension), but there is no way to have the car post a url. I did figure out why the wifi/tasker didn't work, I have multiple ssid's and it was logging into the wrong one. I "forgot" the incorrect ssid so it only logs into the correct one.
DennisC Posted February 16, 2023 Posted February 16, 2023 15 minutes ago, apostolakisl said: I did figure out why the wifi/tasker didn't work, I have multiple ssid's and it was logging into the wrong one. I "forgot" the incorrect ssid so it only logs into the correct one. FYI, just in case you were not aware, you can add more than one ssid's, so wouldn't matter which one you connect with.
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