Going Out piston

#1

1) Give a description of the problem
Piston to replace Going Out routine as I want to have a delay in SHM coming on. This is to stop the alert that my front door is open as soon as I trigger the routine via my virtual switch on ActionTiles. Plus sometimes I need to go into the garage before I actually leave the property so I want the main actions like heating, lighting and cameras to function but not the SHM until I actually leave the location.

I also want to have a ‘popping out’ feature that allows me to go out for a shorter period where I don’t want the lights and heating to go off. Created the piston here and it seems to work but I want to know if the way I have achieved it is ideal or can be improved. Plus as I’m looking to have a Smart Yale lock fitted soon, if I should use one of the other triggers like ‘leaving place’ instead of ‘presence’ to set the SHM earlier,

2) What is the expected behavior?
As above, can it be made more efficient?

3) What is happening/not happening?
Seems to be working from my testing tonight but it takes a distance before the SHM gets triggered.

4) Post a Green Snapshot of the pistonimage

Going Out
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What do you think?

#2

I’m assuming your phone is your presence sensor? In that case, it’s using GPS or A-GPS to detect location and in that case I don’t think ‘leaving place’ is any different from ‘presence’. Even though ST lets you change the home area, I still found it much too large for my taste. I could be nearly a quarter mile (400m) away stuck at a red light for 5 minutes and it thinks I’ve arrived home and unlocks my doors (or haven’t yet left and left them unlocked).

My solution was to create a simulated on/off switch called VirtualMe and have IFTTT turn it on or off whenever I connect/disconnect from my WiFi. My phone does not turn off WiFi at night, so that wasn’t a problem, and my WiFi signal only extends a few yards from my home, so I’m much closer when it triggers.

#3

It looks pretty simple and efficient to me.

If you are concerned with it taking to long could just add a wait before setting the SHM instead of based on presence. But it kinda seems 6 one way and a half dozen the other.

#4

Thanks, that’s good to know as I am aware I’m barely scratching the surface of WebCoRE so how I go about achieving the goal may not be the most efficient. I did use a time initially but as sometimes i’m leaving immediately and others I’m in the garage to get my bike ready, it wasn’t really working for me. So something that actually triggers after I left the property seemed best.

#5

I like the idea of using wi-fi as a trigger to keep it nice and close to the property :smile: Will have a look into that, thanks.