How to setup mobile presence sensing on Hubitat Elevation hub

Authored by: Support.com Tech Pro Team

1. Introduction

How to setup mobile presence sensing on Hubitat Elevation hub

2. Resolution

With the Hubitat mobile app, you can easily add devices so each family member leaving or arriving home can trigger automations with mobile presence detection.

If you opt-in, the Hubitat mobile app uses your phone’s location to figure out when you’ve crossed over a virtual perimeter around your home referred to as a Geofence. You can designate center and size of the Geofenced area when setting up presence sensing in the mobile app.

The Hubitat mobile app doesn’t track where you are or where you’ve been. Data for presence sensing and geofence is only used to determine when you come home or when you leave. 

 For presence sensing to work properly, you’ll need to make sure that:

1. You’ve enabled the Geofence option in the Hubitat mobile app.
2. You’ve set location permissions for the Hubitat Mobile app to Always Allow.
3. Everyone in your household you want to participate in presence sensing has the Hubitat mobile app installed and configured on their own phones.