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Fri Oct 28, 2016 12:45 pm
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rycardo
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I just finished with a long call with Apple, and now have HomeKit's Location Automation working with three separate iPhones and Location automation..
I'm going to refer to the iPad, but you can also use an Apple TV as your Home Hub. For Location automation, you do need one or the other to act as your Hub.
Create the Scenes you want to happen when you are home / away. I recommend you name them with the person's name, like "Rycardo Away" "Rycardo Home" rather than "Arrive Home" "Left Home".
Create the When I Arrive Home and When I Leave Home automations (these names are static) on your iPhone. Be aware, they recommend you have it update scenes not individual accessories. I tried controlling an accessory directly (Virtual Device on / off), it wouldn't update the virtual device. However, when I included the Virtual Device in a scene, it worked perfectly. So I think there is still a bug there, and that's probably why they recommended using a Scene. Or maybe that's by design.
Once you have Home and Location automation working correctly with the iPad and a single iPhone, then invite other person/people to your Home.
Once they have accepted the Invite on their iPhone, open Home on your iPad, tap the Home tab, in the top left corner tap the location icon, then tap on the name in the People section. Turn both switches ON: Allow Remote Access and Allow Editing. Tap Back then Done
It may take about 20 minutes, but eventually the Automation tab on the additional iPhones will show up in the Home app. When it does tap it.
This part can be confusing, on all the iPhones you will see all the Automations. On the second iPhone I see "When I Arrive Home" and "When I Leave Home" from my iPhone. You do not want to modify those, instead tap the Create new Automation button at the bottom. Then tap My Location Changes, then create the Automation for that device. When you get back to the Automation tab, you will now see two When I Arrive Home automations and two When I Leave Home automations. The only way to tell them apart is by the scene name (which is why I recommend using the person's name.
Repeat the above for each iPhone, and all should work with out any additional apps or plugins, it does for me after updating to 10.1
Hope this helps!
Rycardo