Im experimenting with the geofencing feature, but it appears the blue iris android app doesnt update status in the background, even though I locked the app in memory.
I was sitting at home for 4 hours while my desktop still considered me 'away'. Activating the blue iris app on my phone instantly changed that.
The cause might also be different. I could be wrong, but its difficult to know for sure, as neither app gives a lot of info to help troubleshoot, but it also seems like there is a problem if a change in position occurs when there is no internet connection. This happens all the time as I leave or enter the house, as my phone switches from wifi to 3G (and 3G is spotty here at best). It seems those changes are not queued and retransmitted later?
Lastly, my phone has told me I entered my house on a few occasions when I was quite far from it. This I guess is due to my phone losing its GPS, and android increasing the radius of the estimated position so much, my house falls in it again. Thats not a problem you can solve 100% but it might be useful to set a second parameter, that not only defines the range between phone and home, but also takes in to account the margin of error android gives.
Lastly; the easiest and most reliable way to know if my phone is at home, is by checking the wifi access point its connected to. Can we please have that as an additional trigger for geofencing? Its not a perfect solution either as my phone will typically connect to the wifi when Im already opening the door, but it could be used in combination with the GPS localization to make it much more robust. If you implement this, please allow us to select multiple access points that define home, as I have more than one, and Im probably not alone in that.
I was sitting at home for 4 hours while my desktop still considered me 'away'. Activating the blue iris app on my phone instantly changed that.
The cause might also be different. I could be wrong, but its difficult to know for sure, as neither app gives a lot of info to help troubleshoot, but it also seems like there is a problem if a change in position occurs when there is no internet connection. This happens all the time as I leave or enter the house, as my phone switches from wifi to 3G (and 3G is spotty here at best). It seems those changes are not queued and retransmitted later?
Lastly, my phone has told me I entered my house on a few occasions when I was quite far from it. This I guess is due to my phone losing its GPS, and android increasing the radius of the estimated position so much, my house falls in it again. Thats not a problem you can solve 100% but it might be useful to set a second parameter, that not only defines the range between phone and home, but also takes in to account the margin of error android gives.
Lastly; the easiest and most reliable way to know if my phone is at home, is by checking the wifi access point its connected to. Can we please have that as an additional trigger for geofencing? Its not a perfect solution either as my phone will typically connect to the wifi when Im already opening the door, but it could be used in combination with the GPS localization to make it much more robust. If you implement this, please allow us to select multiple access points that define home, as I have more than one, and Im probably not alone in that.
