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BrettStah

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Sep 17, 2016
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Greetings... I searched and failed to find this asked here, but please point me in the right direction if I overlooked a relevant thread.

I'm at iOS 10 and the latest tvOS, and was hoping to have a native way to automate an action when all family members leave the house, versus just me.

Main example - when the house is empty I want the ecobee3 thermostats to automatically switch to away mode. I'm digging through the Home app and only see a way of triggering that when I leave the house.

I came across a kludgy workaround that involves IFTTT and a 3rd party geofence app (Life360) but I'd love to ditch that complexity for a native solution.

It seems like a no-brainer to me.
[doublepost=1474117991][/doublepost]And of course, I found a similar question after posting mine:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/turning-lights-off-only-when-last-person-leaves.1992719/

Unfortunately it seems this is not possible at the moment.
 
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