r/homeassistant • u/Valuable-Sleep-4179 • 5h ago

Home/Away - iOS

Struggling with getting home/away working in home assistant. There a two members of the house, both on Iphones

Geolocation with HA Companion app

  • Doesnt Update Well. Left the house for several hours and one user never appears "away". I have checked all settings and they seem to be in place. Location logs in the companion app show multiple location changes, just never updated in home assistant ( last change 2 hours ago, last update 2 hours ago)

Ping/arp device tracker

  • When iPhone enders idle state ( at night when asleep), wifi is turned off apparantly.

Homekit automation

We do not have a HomeKit Hub device. So spouse cannot be added to the home bridge virtual home ( or whatever).

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u/Equivalent-Figure336 4h ago

Try iCloud v3 integration on HACS and add the generated entity to the user as well.

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u/Valuable-Sleep-4179 4h ago

My understanding is iCloud v3 only works with one iCloud account though? there are 2 people in the house

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u/Equivalent-Figure336 3h ago

no, if you have a family setup on icloud you can track all family member devices