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Household Routines VS Personal Routines

benhof_ca
Community Member

Personal Routine Actions have a lot flexibility but can't be started using presence detection; Household Routines can be started using presence detection but have the most basic actions. 

I would like to configure my vacuum to clean my floors when I leave and dock when I get back home; this would be simple if Household Routines had the same Actions as Personal Routines. Why are Household Routine Actions so limited?

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Cathal_S
Gold Product Expert
Gold Product Expert

Hi there,
As this is a community forum supported by other users and community specialist's we don't know why Google hasn't yet allowed this. The best way of getting your thoughts, feedback or feature requests to the people that can make changes is by submitting feedback as detailed within the link below.

Feedback:
https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/7071494

Regards,
Cathal

Princesss
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hi everyone,

 

Thanks for visiting the Community.

 

@Cathal_S, I appreciate your help on answering this thread.

 

@benhof_ca, hope the info provided by @Cathal on the previous thread answered your questions. Feel free to respond to this thread if you still need assistance and we'd be glad to help.

 

Best,

Princess

Princesss
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hi everyone,

 

Chiming in to check if you still need help with this?

 

Hope the steps posted worked on your end. Let us know if you have additional questions, reply to this, otherwise I'll be locking the thread.

 

Best,

Princess

Thanks for following up. It seems the solution I'm looking for doesn't exist yet. I've been holding off on implementing hass.io but it looks like I will have to take the plunge now

Cathal_S
Gold Product Expert
Gold Product Expert

Hi again,

Home Assistant is fantastic open source home automation software that I use myself. In my personal experience Geo fencing, presence detection is not a simple one stop reliable solution. I think you will need to combine multiple sensors and use the Bayesian integration for better accuracy.

 

https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/bayesian/ 

Regards,
Cathal

Thanks for the tip Cathal, my dive down the rabbit hole hasn't lead me to Bayesian yet.
I have been looking onto using location sharing from my personal Google account to the Home Assistant's Google account. I don't know what kind of latency to expect but I think if it works, it'd work well

Cathal_S
Gold Product Expert
Gold Product Expert

It's been a while since I used this with my Home assistant install. I was polling my router for known IP addresses but found that method too resource intensive for the Raspberry Pi I use Home Assistant on.

I and many others have requested that Google allow us to use the Home/Away routine with more devices and also allow more programmable control features be added to routines.

Fingers crossed they listen 🤞

 

Regards,
Cathal

Princesss
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hi everyone,

 

Chiming in to check if you still need help with this?

 

Hope all your questions has been answered. Feel free to update this post if you have additional questions, otherwise we'll be locking the thread.

 

Best,

Princess

Princesss
Community Specialist
Community Specialist

Hi everyone,

 

Due to inactivity, I'll go ahead and lock this thread in 24 hours. Feel free to start a new thread if you need assistance with your Google speakers and we'd be glad to assist you further.

 

Best,

Princess