Feature request: room-specific home/away
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I'd like to be able to set groups of rooms or specific rooms to automatically switch to "away" when a phone associated with those rooms is outside a geofence. Our HVAC system covers two separate dwelling units in our house, it'd be helpful to have separate home/away setups for each unit instead of system-wide.
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Hey Chis,
This is an interesting use case and I'd love to learn a bit more about it. It sounds like you have one system (guessing central heat or heat/cool) servicing a home thats been split into two residences? Are you using this with a smart thermostat and if so, which one? I have a few ideas but I'd love to get a bit more clarification before making them.Comment actions -
We have a Nest E that's located in the upper unit (mine). The furnace serves two units, an upstairs and a downstairs. After migrating to Google Home, it appears that only phones logged into the primary account holder's nest account can be used for home/away. What I'd like is to setup two groups (the downstairs living room and bedroom each have a puck and a vent, and all the upstairs rooms have a puck and a vent); when our downstairs neighbors leave their vents should go inactive, when no one is home upstairs the upstairs vents should go inactive.
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New to Flair. I was about to make the same request. Has this been taken into consideration by the developers? Of course you can set occupancy with a schedule but peoples don't always use a schedule. In fact most of the time it doe not serve the purpose right. The Room section is almost ready for this. As you can tie a room to Pucks, Thermostats, Sensors and vents, you could tie Mobiles to it also.
In the same register. I've set-up (3) mobiles and the only time I tried the Geofence Away feature, (2) were out but (1), mine, was in the zone. Still the system went in Away mode. Therefore :
- Would be nice to see a list with mobile's geofence status and because technology is not perfect, have the ability to manually "reset" status from the UI. Because it happened once I've turned off the feature in case it happens when I'm not the one home realizing it.
- Would make sense to have an optional Notification when the system changes Home/Away mode.
Michel.
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I would like this too. I am considering installing flair in 4 bedrooms - 3 of which have renters in them. We are all on opposite schedules. Would rather their smart vent close if they are not home so AC isn't being wasted. I don't trust that they would always (or ever) "turn off" their Flair when they leave.
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