Turning lights off only when last person leaves

[Narked Diver]

Hi,

I have my hue lights set to turn on when I come home and separately I have sets up the same feature on my wife's iPhone and this works fine

I would like to be able to turn off the lights using the same feature but only when the last person leaves the house

Currently if I use this feature and I go out while my wife is at home with the lights on she is plunged into darkness which seems to annoy here for some reason 😉

Is there an app that can test to see if an iPhone is still at the location before turning off the lights?

Thanks in advance

 

[Narked Diver]

After some investigation it looks like the iConnectHue app may well do what I require

I'll play with it over the weekend and see

 

[steve knight]

I did not have luck with the I hue connect app for that but it may have changed. My smartthings hub does that job well.

 

[cdavis11]

It's a big drawback right now.

Nest does this very well for their thermostat with their auto away feature based on multiple phone locations.

 

[BrettStah]

For what it's worth, I want to do something similar with our ecobee3 thermostats. When ALL family members leave a chosen geofence around the home, I want the thermostats to switch to away mod, and when ANY family member enters the geofence, I want them to switch to normal home mode.

I found a kludgy way via IFTTT, and it works well. It relies on a 3rd party app though - Life360. And I think an AppleTV is needed but I'm not 100% sure about that.

Anyway, in case it helps, check out the various IFTTT recipes involving Life360 to see if there's one for your needs:
https://ifttt.com/life360

 

[Narked Diver]

For what it's worth, I want to do something similar with our ecobee3 thermostats. When ALL family members leave a chosen geofence around the home, I want the thermostats to switch to away mod, and when ANY family member enters the geofence, I want them to switch to normal home mode.

I found a kludgy way via IFTTT, and it works well. It relies on a 3rd party app though - Life360. And I think an AppleTV is needed but I'm not 100% sure about that.

Anyway, in case it helps, check out the various IFTTT recipes involving Life360 to see if there's one for your needs:
https://ifttt.com/life360

Cheers - I'll have a look into that