Nearby Context Notifications

[TotheMoonAlice]

I'm not a car owner and so bicycle or walk to everywhere I run errands.

Consequently, I live a couple of blocks from my two closest contexts, so I've set the radius for each of these to a very small area. 

When I'm at home, my two closest location notifications almost always display in my phone notifications area (when I clear them, they just reappear) even though I've set the notification range for these contexts to be much smaller than the distance than I am from them -- even if both my gps and/or wifi settings are on. The notifications stay active and reactivate periodically.

However, when I select either of the notifications, MLO Android shows me the "Nearby" view and my phone location updates and the notifications disappear. Similarly, when I go directly to the "Nearby" view, my phone location updates and the notifications disappear.

@B radius .002 mi, notify when I arrive

@R radius .001 mi, notify when I arrive

My NearBy settings radius is set to .001 mi.

Are my settings configured incorrectly?

Thanks!

[Dwight]

Hi Alice ( Amber?)
There are three layers of location discovery.  The most precise uses GPS, the middle uses wifi, and the lowest uses the cell towers. Your settings seem precise enough to avoid ambiguity provided that you have an accurate fix on your current location. Sometimes being indoors is all it takes to drop the gps fix. Where I live,  cell towers are a few miles apart, so whenever I am relying on them my location can be easily a mile or two from where I really am. That leaves wifi, and the question is whether any of the wifi networks visible from your home are known locations for Android. When I am someplace unknown to Android (eg new network id since the last time a street view car went by) I will see my location switching between spots a mile or so from where I am. If the location is flashing between two places mlo sees that as a series of arrivals and departures.

Test this by bringing up google maps, zooming in as far as you can, and walking around your premises. Check if the pin showing your current location jumps to any unreasonable places, even briefly.
-Dwight
Mlo betazoid on Android sgn2

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