With the Hubitat mobile app, you can easily add devices so any household member leaving or arriving home can trigger automations with mobile presence detection.
If you opt-in, the Hubitat mobile app uses your phone’s location to figure out when you’ve crossed over a virtual perimeter around your home, referred to as a geofence. You can designate center and size of the geofence area when setting up presence sensing in the mobile app.
NOTE: The Hubitat mobile app doesn’t track where you are or where you’ve been. Data for presence sensing and geofence is only used to determine when you come home or when you leave.
For presence sensing to work properly, you’ll need to make sure that:
Follow the directions in the Hubitat Mobile App documentation to install and configure the Hubitat Elevation mobile app.
The name of your phone will appear in the Devices list on the hub you connected to with the Hubitat Elevation mobile app. Included with this device is the ability for your mobile device to send presence events (present or not present) to the hub based on your geofence as well as the ability to receive notifications on your phone from the hub.
Presence sensing can be disabled or enabled at any time by toggling the Enable GeoFence settings option under More > Geofence > Settings (icon) in the Hubitat Elevation mobile app.
Arrival or departure of the mobile phone creates an event. To use these events or their resulting conditions as part of an automation, use the mobile app device (named as it appears in the Devices list) in an app that can use presence sensors to create your desired automation. Such apps include Basic Rule, Rule Machine, Mode Manager, and many others.
If you are having problems with your geofence, including
then check each set of steps below to troubleshoot.
Make sure your phone/operating system has the necessary permissions set for the Hubitat Elevation mobile app.
Make sure the geofence feature is enabled in the Hubitat Elevation mobile app.
Make sure your geofence center and geofence radius are set correctly.
TIP: To avoid this step when setting up a mobile device in the future, make sure your hub location is set correctly in Settings > Hub Details on your hub. This will be used as the default geofence center radius (but can be changed as described above on any individual device — without affecting hub settings or other devices — as needed).