Automatic Gate Opener with location and time

[ivanooe73]

Hello to all

I tried without success to develop this idea.

I would like to open automaticaly my gate when I'm coming home (using location) , but I want to be sure that don't open in other situations.

The conditions are:

• WHEN I enter in a specific location (near to my house but not in my house) AND a specific time,activate for 2 minute the possibility to open the gate.

• After this if iwithin 2 minutes AND IF I enter in my home area the system open the gate.

• If the time finish the gate continues to remain closed.

The main problem imho is that the timer provide a trigger only at the end, instead I need a timer that provide a trigger "high" for a specific time and after this coming "low".

Is possible to develop this type of flow with Stringify?

Thanks in advance to all for the suggestions.

Ivan

[angus_marshall]

I think definitely possible with the use of variables. However, I've seen mention of issues with multiple GPS geolocation areas so you might have issues with that aspect of what you want to do (I'm assuming you are talking about two such areas, one larger than the other). The smallest geolocation circle is 300m so that's as close to your house as you'd be able to trigger using that method. You could of course use other methods for that final trigger pile wifi connection too. So I believe you should be able to find a way to set this type of flow up.

[Shadow]

What wifi hub do you use and does it have the ability to trigger IFTTT? With google wifi - you can use a combination of stringify and IFTTT to set a variable to say you are home if you connect to the google wifi and not home if you disconnect from google wifi. So you can set a variable if you are within a geofence and a variable if you are connected to wifi to say you are near your house but not in your house. I don't know what other wifi hubs have similar functionality - but others might know.

[angus_marshall]

Nope I just have a normal WiFi router without any fancy capability. What I meant is that you can drive an IFTTT applet directly with an action related to connecting or disconnecting your phome from/to your home WiFi signal. That in turn can drive Stringify. So the first trigger would run when Stringify senses you are entering the geolocation radius you set in the 1st flow. Then when IFTTT sees you have connected to your home wifi, then you can action the next Stringify flow based on that trigger. That 2nd flow could check a variable set in the 1st flow. This way you can set up the double check that I think you asked for. Just remember to reset the variable in another flow when you leave the property geolocation. You must also reset it in the 1st flow after the short timer duration you wanted of 2 minutes. Just add a timer Thing after you first set the variable, and then reset the variable after the timer Thing. I think it's quite simple to set up these 3 flows.