When I was trialing HS3 on Windows I got HSBuddy working flawlessly to do Geolocation on both iOS and Android. I setup a couple locations with a radius of about half a mile and when the phones would enter or leave them they'd quickly be noticed by HSBuddy and I could write events around them. It worked really well.
I purchased the HS Zee S2 and the HSBuddy seems broken on it for Geolocation. I installed the prereqs on Pi but when I try to enable Geolocation in the app I get an error in the HSBuddy app "unable to initialize geolocation". Nothing is logged at all in the logs. The forum post for HSBuddy support seems abandoned so it's unlikely to get reliable and fast support.
Since HSBuddy on Pi doesn't work, I'd like another geolocation service. Basically I need something that works on iOS and Android and will allow me to setup places with a radius. I'd like to write events so if a phone enters or leaves a radius, something happens. I'd also like to write events so that if either phone is at a location, or no phones are at a location other events happen. For examples, if no phones are at the location "home" set the thermostat to save energy. It's imperative that this happens quickly and reliably, for example I'll have an event that turns on lights when a phone enters an area and I don't want the lights to turn on ten minutes after I'm at home when the phone finally decides to report its location.
So, what are you guys using for geolocation? If I can't get something reliable working I plan on returning my HS hardware and going with another vendor.
I purchased the HS Zee S2 and the HSBuddy seems broken on it for Geolocation. I installed the prereqs on Pi but when I try to enable Geolocation in the app I get an error in the HSBuddy app "unable to initialize geolocation". Nothing is logged at all in the logs. The forum post for HSBuddy support seems abandoned so it's unlikely to get reliable and fast support.
Since HSBuddy on Pi doesn't work, I'd like another geolocation service. Basically I need something that works on iOS and Android and will allow me to setup places with a radius. I'd like to write events so if a phone enters or leaves a radius, something happens. I'd also like to write events so that if either phone is at a location, or no phones are at a location other events happen. For examples, if no phones are at the location "home" set the thermostat to save energy. It's imperative that this happens quickly and reliably, for example I'll have an event that turns on lights when a phone enters an area and I don't want the lights to turn on ten minutes after I'm at home when the phone finally decides to report its location.
So, what are you guys using for geolocation? If I can't get something reliable working I plan on returning my HS hardware and going with another vendor.
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