Re: Location-Based Profile - Driving Me Crazy

[Pent]

> I'm now trying to use an "At Home turn on WiFi" profile.  The issue I'm
> having is getting the location set.  I want to use Net only - so as not to
> have GPS on.  When I acquire a fix it goes to a 7km radius and plants the
> flag way far away from where I am.
>
> Is it normal to get that broad of range using just a Net fixing method?

Can be.

> What other suggestions do people have to turn on WiFi when  you get
> someplace - other than having it see an SSID nearby?  That would seem to
> defeat the purpose - since I want to have it work when WiFi is off.

Have a look at Location Without Tears in the userguide.

Pent

[Jonathan Seymour]

I have a profile that turns wifi on every 15 minutes and if it hasn't connected to a network within 30 seconds it turns it back off.

This saves the battery and turns my home profile on (triggered by home wifi connection) within at most 15 minutes of getting home.

On Tuesday, 14 May 2013 13:04:03 UTC+10, Jim Haselmaier wrote:

I want to do a simple "WiFi turned off when I leave home, it turns on when I get home."  I decided to use "Not WiFi Connected" to turn off WiFi when I leave home.  That's working great.  

I'm now trying to use an "At Home turn on WiFi" profile.  The issue I'm having is getting the location set.  I want to use Net only - so as not to have GPS on.  When I acquire a fix it goes to a 7km radius and plants the flag way far away from where I am.

Is it normal to get that broad of range using just a Net fixing method?  It's driving me bonkers.

What other suggestions do people have to turn on WiFi when  you get someplace - other than having it see an SSID nearby?  That would seem to defeat the purpose - since I want to have it work when WiFi is off.

Thanks.

Jim

[Eric Corbin]

I am looking for a better solution still but this semi-reliable workaround is this. I always listen to music in my car on the way home so I have an exit task set to run when my headphones/aux cord is unplugged. the task changes the gps check time to 60 seconds. That way within one minute of getting home my home location profile should work. however it doesn't always work. 

I am looking for a way to force my location profiles to update but I cant seem to figure it out. If I drive into my home location and run the "get location" action it does not change the state of the location profiles. 

[Rich D]

> I am looking for a better solution still but this semi-reliable workaround is this. I always listen to music in my car on the way home so I have an exit task set to run when my headphones/aux cord is unplugged. the task changes the gps check time to 60 seconds. That way within one minute of getting home my home location profile should work. however it doesn't always work. 

I think you would have to change the 'screen off' 'all checks' setting as well to make it more reliable..

However, I am not sure I fully understand why you are doing it this way but I would recommend just doing a get location when the cord is un plugged then test to see if you are close to your home. I would think you could get a accurate enough test just by limiting the decimal places in the lat Lon but if you search the group there have been a few posts on how to test how close location x is to location y. 

>
> I am looking for a way to force my location profiles to update

There have been few posts on this as well

Rich..

[Eric Corbin]

Thanks rich I see how that could woork I'll have to give it a try. i know if i move into a location and my phone has not noticed yet, just getting a location does not update the profile. 

[Chris Ditty]

Jim, would you be willing to share this profile?  This sounds like this would work for me.