This is a well known Android bug I am aware, but I am looking for ideas of workarounds or solutions others have found.
Android 6 and newer, the wifi never sleep option does not work. That means the phones wfif goes to sleep at night (or after a while of inactivity). This makes using wifi connected as a means to determine if the phone is at home unusable. But I also use this to tell the house I am home, as soon as my phone logs into my wifi, it tells the house I'm home. All fine on my phone (Android 5), but not on my wife's Android 6 phone. I think because the Wifi is asleep egigeozone is very slow reporting the right location, so it can take 5 or 10 minutes for the phone to report her home. In the meantime I am getting lots of alerts that a burglar is in the house, and all speakers in the house blast on full volume that a burglary is in progress... quite funny first of all but not ideal.
So using the ping PI works for the old Androids, but not with the newer ones as the phone and wifi aree asleep. Same with my AP which does not report the phone logging in.
Running out of ideas.
Android 6 and newer, the wifi never sleep option does not work. That means the phones wfif goes to sleep at night (or after a while of inactivity). This makes using wifi connected as a means to determine if the phone is at home unusable. But I also use this to tell the house I am home, as soon as my phone logs into my wifi, it tells the house I'm home. All fine on my phone (Android 5), but not on my wife's Android 6 phone. I think because the Wifi is asleep egigeozone is very slow reporting the right location, so it can take 5 or 10 minutes for the phone to report her home. In the meantime I am getting lots of alerts that a burglar is in the house, and all speakers in the house blast on full volume that a burglary is in progress... quite funny first of all but not ideal.
So using the ping PI works for the old Androids, but not with the newer ones as the phone and wifi aree asleep. Same with my AP which does not report the phone logging in.
Running out of ideas.
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