Geofence for Domoticz

[Evelen]

worked bad today, when i come home it sent a off signal, and than it send some on and off singals when I was home.
Extended the range now, so i will test tomorrow

[Pisellon1]

Maybe a stupid question.
You have to take app GeoFence open on background?
Thank you

[Appesteijn]

Maybe a stupid question.
You have to take app GeoFence open on background?
Thank you

If you have 'added a geofence' you can close the app. It will listen in the background and only gets triggered when you cross the geofence.

[Pisellon1]

Thank you for the info sir!

[Guest]

Does geofence not drain your telephones battery because the use of GPS??


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[Robert]

Does geofence not drain your telephones battery because the use of GPS??


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[RoadXY]

It uses several things to determine your location like wifi accesspoints it sees, connected phone cell towers and, only if necessary, GPS.

If you have Google Now enabled (or at least Google Location History) then your phone is already trying to figure out where it is every minute.
Off course it wil use some battery but most of the time not more then 5% - 10% on a full day of use (which off course is different on every phone).

According to several reports on internet, the Facebook app uses more! Even when not used. (Don't know if this is true: I don't use the Facebook app)

[Evelen]

Have a request:
If the client does not get "ok" on JSON it should try again in a minute or something, now nothing happens if first JSON not reach Domoticz

[Appesteijn]

Have a request:
If the client does not get "ok" on JSON it should try again in a minute or something, now nothing happens if first JSON not reach Domoticz

Do you get a timeout? The already checks if you have an internet connection and waits to call the url untill your phone has an internet connection.

[Evelen]

Have a request:
If the client does not get "ok" on JSON it should try again in a minute or something, now nothing happens if first JSON not reach Domoticz

Do you get a timeout? The already checks if you have an internet connection and waits to call the url untill your phone has an internet connection.

my wifi on the phone is a litle unstable, it "has internet", but not realy.

[Evelen]

argh, works bad, If i don't activate wifi it never now I'm home.

[Appesteijn]

argh, works bad, If i don't activate wifi it never now I'm home.

Could you try to set your radius to 500 meters? Then your phone wouldn't have wifi yet so your bad wifi can mess up the call to your server.

[Evelen]

argh, works bad, If i don't activate wifi it never now I'm home.

Could you try to set your radius to 500 meters? Then your phone wouldn't have wifi yet so your bad wifi can mess up the call to your server.

true, and that works, but i still need to have wifi on

[Evelen]

even if i use 500M and wifi.

Sometimes when I'm at home it sends the "away/off" messages. then, after a few seconds it sending a "home/on" message. Sometimes it sending more "home/on" messages while I'm already home.

[asjmcguire]

even if i use 500M and wifi.

Sometimes when I'm at home it sends the "away/off" messages. then, after a few seconds it sending a "home/on" message. Sometimes it sending more "home/on" messages while I'm already home.

I even tried setting it to 5000 metres - it still does the switch on and off every 10 or so seconds sometimes for no reason at all. I gave up and turned the Geofence off - it's certainly not the only app that I've ever had Geofence problems with though, I blame Android.

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[Appesteijn]

I even tried setting it to 5000 metres - it still does the switch on and off every 10 or so seconds sometimes for no reason at all. I gave up and turned the Geofence off - it's certainly not the only app that I've ever had Geofence problems with though, I blame Android.

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You could try to look into your location history (there is a link in this topic), sometimes it helps to identify problems.

[forum026]

Does "Geofence added" and " Geofence removed" equals "on" and "off"?

Strange thing is that today it seams to work. But yesterday Geofence was "on" nomatter where I was

No, when you add a geofence, your phone will monitor when you enter the geofence (send on command) and when you leave the geofence (send off command). If you remove the geofence, your phone will stop monitoring and will never send on or off.

Good to hear it works now, if you need any help, just ask!

I have similar problem. The DomoFence is showing entering or existing zone correctly, but it seems not sending 'Off' to domoticz.
All seems to be correct configured (right buttom works fine).

Is there some kind of debug possible?

[Appesteijn]

I have similar problem. The DomoFence is showing entering or existing zone correctly, but it seems not sending 'Off' to domoticz.
All seems to be correct configured (right buttom works fine).

Is there some kind of debug possible?

If there are errors you should see them in a Toast (the short popup message). If your virtual switch does get switched on, the communication should be OK. And if the app give a notification when entering the geofence, that should work also.
You could also look into your location history at google and see if anything weird happens: https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0

And you could try to see what happens when you place the geofence at another location (e.g. at work) to test if it works there.

[RoadXY]

I have similar problem. The DomoFence is showing entering or existing zone correctly, but it seems not sending 'Off' to domoticz.
All seems to be correct configured (right buttom works fine).

Is there some kind of debug possible?

If there are errors you should see them in a Toast (the short popup message). If your virtual switch does get switched on, the communication should be OK. And if the app give a notification when entering the geofence, that should work also.
You could also look into your location history at google and see if anything weird happens: https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0

And you could try to see what happens when you place the geofence at another location (e.g. at work) to test if it works there.

The results in that website are flattened out.
If you want raw data use this app:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... ionhistory

In my case I saw that the location jumped around quit an bit.

[forum026]

If there are errors you should see them in a Toast (the short popup message). If your virtual switch does get switched on, the communication should be OK. And if the app give a notification when entering the geofence, that should work also.
You could also look into your location history at google and see if anything weird happens: https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/b/0

And you could try to see what happens when you place the geofence at another location (e.g. at work) to test if it works there.

There were not error messages. This weekend I updated the Domoticz software to V3.xxx and now it's working fine.