Geofencing for multiple people?
Hi!
I’m trying to set up geofencing with TP-Link home automation and need some guidance. Currently, I have basic geofencing set up to handle simple tasks like turning on the lights when I arrive home and turning them off when I leave.
However, I want to take this a step further to account for multiple users in the home. For instance, if I leave the house but my spouse is still there, I don’t want the lights to turn off. Is there a way to configure geofencing so that it considers the presence of multiple people in the household?
I wonder if that's at least planned :)
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@Maciej54
While you are waiting for needed update, you can use a kinda hacky workaround and you will need as many smart plugs as there is persons living in your home.
Not my own idea, but i found it while trying to solve the same question as you. Apparently there is also at least one other solution, but that needs another software than TP-link, so im not sure that it would be acceptable to post a straight link to it.
And after multiple tries, i could not add the link to the site, so you just have to find it on reddit with google. Sorry.
Is it so that it's forbidden to reference any other sites here?
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@Wayne-TP I appreciate that but, geofencing does not have sense in most cases if there are more people than you in your house. This option should be a must
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@ercovi It's still marked as "beta", but for some simple things it works really nice. I love the function "turn on the lights after dark when I get back home and open the door" ;). That's a fairly complex condition but of course if you would like to turn off the lights when no one is home and you leave - that will not work. Whats more, it would be difficult to know, when everybody has truly left. They would have to "check-out" of the set permiter.
@Wayne-TP some system use WiFi connection to determine presence. Did you consider that? (If a user is within a WiFi range he is "at home")
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@Maciej54
While you are waiting for needed update, you can use a kinda hacky workaround and you will need as many smart plugs as there is persons living in your home.
Not my own idea, but i found it while trying to solve the same question as you. Apparently there is also at least one other solution, but that needs another software than TP-link, so im not sure that it would be acceptable to post a straight link to it.
And after multiple tries, i could not add the link to the site, so you just have to find it on reddit with google. Sorry.
Is it so that it's forbidden to reference any other sites here?
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@Deekuku thats sounds like a cool idea... with multiple plugs, where I understand each plug on/off status coresponds to a person being in or out out...
but solving such a problem with phisical devices sounds as a bit of an overkill :) But it also shows an interesting solution in automation where you could create such a logical group...
This way or another..., I noticed my "geofencing" automation worked - because it had no geofencing rule in it ;)
The light turned on when I opened a door in the evening, but this wasn't actually related to geofencing.
Once I added a geofencing rule, it stopped working (even though I allowed the app to read my location all the time).
I tried adjusting the radius to be quite big (300m?), but that didn't help. It seems it checks my location too infrequently - when I'm driving back home, 5 minutes might mean being several km away, and then I park in an underground lot. Maybe it's unable to fetch my position before I actually open the door.
I wonder if this specific situation makes it fail, or if it doesn't work at all?
Does anyone know whats the location update efrequency?
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What a good idea! This is indeed a great workaround. Hope you idea can inspire the other users.
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