Android, use Tasker to automate Home/Away Mode

[Quikster]

Has anyone had any luck using tasker or something else to automatically set the home/vs away modes based on your phone?

I've had no luck so far figuring out a way to do it.

[rpr69]

If I had one wish, it would be this...

[fillibar]

Just curious... Do you want Tasker (big fan of it) to set it from anywhere or are you more interested in the Almond+ "knowing" when you are home or away based on your phone?

[rpr69]

My use case would be to automatically update the status on the phone to home or away based on a trigger, the obvious one being if it's connected (or not) to the Almond+ via WiFi. I leave home, the WiFi disconnects, the status on the phone changes to away, so I get all alerts for sensors with 'away' or 'always' as the alert setting, and when I come home and connect to WiFi the status changes to 'home' and I get alerts for 'home' and 'always' sensors. I honestly can't think of any other scenario that would makes sense.

[jjbiese]

I would love to do the same thing.

[fillibar]

This is a many times requested feature for the Almond+, and without having to rely on Tasker to set it for you, so maybe we will see something in the future.

The only other case I could think of to do it remotely would be if you were turning it off for a guest remotely, but the app could do that, unless you wanted to have it more automatic based on time or such.

[jrwhitehead]

BUMP.

Obviously it's possible to get this integrated into the Android and iOS apps, but (@ Securifi Staff) can we put this forward as a feature request please?


Home & away status based on wifi connectivity of device.

Cheers
James

[SecureComp]

NFC on the key chain, tap it when you're home. Set Home mode and a bunch of stuff on the phone.