Using GeoFencing in HomeSeer - jvmahon/Homebridge-HomeSeer4 GitHub Wiki

This is a stub for how to convey geofence info. from the iOS device to HomeSeer.

Normally, you will use your iPhone / i-Device to run the geofenced Automation. The instructions here are for a much more specialized case in which you want to inform HomeSeer that the iPhone has entered or left a GeoFenced region.

This wiki section will be clarified at a later date.

Basics:

• Create a virtual switch in HomeSeer for each iOS user you want to track. I like to name the device with the person's name that you are tracking.

• On the device's Status Graphic tab, change the state names from Off / On to "Away" and "Home".

• Change the "On" (now renamed to "Home") from its default value of 100 to the value of 255.

• Delete the default status graphic.

• In your config.json, add the "new" virtual switch as a Switch type.

• Restart Homebridge. You should now see the new virtual switch. Turn it On / Off from the iOS Home App. You should see a corresponding change at the HomeSeer side.

Now set up an automation in the iOS Home app to turn the switch "On" when the selected user arrives home and a second automation to turn it "Off" when the user leaves.

The corresponding HomeSeer virtual switch should now change between the "Home" and the "Away" stages when the iOS device leaves / arrives back.

Use the virtual switch in HomeSeer as an event trigger to trigger HomeSeer actions when the user comes and goes.