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Sensors and Home Automation => Home automation => Topic started by: Quikster on July 09, 2015, 12:37:39 pm

Title: Android, use Tasker to automate Home/Away Mode
Post by: Quikster on July 09, 2015, 12:37:39 pm

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.

Title: Re: Android, use Tasker to automate Home/Away Mode
Post by: rpr69 on July 09, 2015, 12:46:05 pm

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

Title: Re: Android, use Tasker to automate Home/Away Mode
Post by: fillibar on July 09, 2015, 03:06:40 pm

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?

Title: Re: Android, use Tasker to automate Home/Away Mode
Post by: rpr69 on July 10, 2015, 12:52:46 pm

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.

Title: Re: Android, use Tasker to automate Home/Away Mode
Post by: jjbiese on July 10, 2015, 02:22:08 pm

I would love to do the same thing.

Title: Re: Android, use Tasker to automate Home/Away Mode
Post by: fillibar on July 12, 2015, 06:25:13 pm

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.

Title: Re: Android, use Tasker to automate Home/Away Mode
Post by: jrwhitehead on October 29, 2015, 08:06:57 am

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

Title: Re: Android, use Tasker to automate Home/Away Mode
Post by: SecureComp on October 31, 2015, 12:04:49 am

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