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Geofence activated but device not

PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:10 am
by MarcoGT
Hi all,

I did a set up of Home Remote on my father's iPhone to open garage door when entering a geofence.
Geofence is correctly recognized because notification appears on the device but device is not set to ON, why?
Shall I let the geofence trigger an action instead of activating a device?

Thanks
Marco

Re: Geofence activated but device not

PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 7:19 am
by MarcoGT
Oh, I saw in another thread that maybe I did something wrong with the geofence options because I set the trigger as follow:

- Trigger on ENTER
- Notify: YES
- Notify with Prompt: YES

As far as I understood, notify with prompts means "I need a confirmation to run the action", right?
If yes, then this is the error I did :)

Re: Geofence activated but device not

PostPosted: Tue Feb 14, 2017 2:42 pm
by howartp
I think so. :-)

(Not tested it recently, but it rings a bell)


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Re: Geofence activated but device not

PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 12:13 am
by MarcoGT
It works! :)
But unfortunately 20m radius are too much :(

Are there any other solution to reduce the radius?
Or only use a beacon?

Re: Geofence activated but device not

PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 4:26 am
by howartp
I use RadBeacons with GeoFency.


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Re: Geofence activated but device not

PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 7:17 am
by yassi
Peter, do you have the RadBeacons in your house?
I have them on the key ring, but not really configured them - or using them at the moment (using Karl's piBeacon plugin)

Yassi

Re: Geofence activated but device not

PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 10:57 am
by tatrog
For this application not sure you need the piBeacon as home remote also has a beacon feature. I use both geo and beacon to open my garage. I set my geo for a bit under a half mile. When I enter that geo it sets two variables. "On my way home". This triggers lights,havoc, etc. second it sets my garage beacon variable to "validated". I place a xy beacon in my mailbox. It's about 50ft away and home remote triggers garage open when it finds that beacon. When door opens reset garage beacon variable to false. This way if I am walking around the front yard I don't keep triggering the garage open as I get in range of the beacon.


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Re: Geofence activated but device not

PostPosted: Wed Feb 15, 2017 6:02 pm
by Japple55
tatrog wrote:
I place a xy beacon in my mailbox. It's about 50ft away and home remote triggers garage open when it finds that beacon. When door opens reset garage beacon variable to false. This way if I am walking around the front yard I don't keep triggering the garage open as I get in range of the beacon.


Brilliant!!! Thank you!

Re: Geofence activated but device not

PostPosted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 3:21 am
by howartp
yassi wrote:
Peter, do you have the RadBeacons in your house?
I have them on the key ring, but not really configured them - or using them at the moment (using Karl's piBeacon plugin)

Yassi

Yes.

I use the USB ones, using USB ports in my SkyTV boxes, Server and Mac, plus the USB media ports in my cars.


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