Presence sensor life 360

[Drivingforce]

I know this is a repeat, native presence sensor using life360 or another app that allows you to have family members trigger boolean variables

[DanT]

Wow Lawrence you must really need this! We’d better arrange an audience with the

[pebneter]

yeah, I guess this is quite an urgent topic, since life360 is said to be ending support for IFTTT soon (https://www.reddit.com/r/ifttt/comments/j6y6vz/life360_ending/).
Does anybody know of a good service or app similar to life360 (not necessarily present on IFTTT)?

[Drivingforce]

Wasn’t aware of that, but due to IFTTT (don’t get me started on IFTTT location service) being quite unreliable I have smartthings and life 360 via IFTTT changing my Boolean variables. I know SmartLife (TUYA) app has location based services running on it. But not sure how reliable it is

[pebneter]

Anyone looking for a alternative to Life360 via IFTTT I highly recommend to have a look at this article here:

Presence awareness for families - Part I: knowing who is at home

Is anyone there? A very common quest among smart home owners is to automate events based on the presence of any family member: Turn lights on/off, reduce/increase heating or cooling, arm/disarm video cameras and so on. Therefore it’s a common need for your home automation system to know if someone is at home or not. There are multiple approaches to solve it: there are some specialised apps that can track all family members, presence detection is built into Apple HomeKit and Google H…