Location profile

[manivannan....@gmail.com]

I have a "Home" profile and a "school" profile. Both profiles work fine when there's no overlap in the location area. There are also other profiles that depend on the location (i.e. home or school)

I have a situation where a student lives on campus. So, the dorm is "Home". However, the dorm itself is in "School". I'd like the "Home" to override "School" and also revert to "school" when the student leaves the dorm. But only during defined school days and hours.

My current profile configurations don't work reliably. So, looking for ideas on how to set this up.

[manivannan....@gmail.com]

Also, there are other "Home"s outside of the dorm. So, the profile needs to stay "Home" and work inside "School" and only for the school days and times.

[Dan Muller]

It's not clear why your configurations don't work reliably, so I'll just tell you how I would set up for a situation like this.

For anything involving locations, I like to set up variables that tell me where I am and then use those in all the other profiles. That keeps all the complexity in one place. So I would create %AtHome and set that to TRUE when I'm in the dorm OR at parents' house OR at brother's apartment OR (add as many locations as you wish). You can do this using whatever location criteria you want: geofence, connected to Wi-Fi, etc.  Otherwise, set %AtHome to FALSE.

Next, I would create %AtSchool, setting that TRUE when located on campus AND Monday through Friday AND 8:00 through 16:00 AND %AtHome is FALSE. Otherwise, set %AtSchool to FALSE. This way, when you're in the dorm, even though you're physically within the campus, %AtSchool will be false because %AtHome is true.

Now you can just use %AtHome and %AtSchool as the contexts for your profiles and you should be good. The beauty of this system is that if you want to change something, such as adding or removing a "home" location or changing the school schedule, you only have to do it in one place.

[Manis]

Thanks Dan! The issue was only when home is inside school. I had originally reset my location variable to spaces on the exit task of dorm. Now, I'm resetting it to school. Seems to work as intended.

Thanks Again!

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[Dan Muller]

OK, sounds like you handle your location variable a bit differently than I do. Whatever works! Glad you found a fix!