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So I leave home and the heating can go off?  Don't think my wife would be happy with that when I go down the pub.

Another design flaw?

"ME TOO"! - everyone that doesn't live alone int the entire world.

In the same boat. Have to see if there's a way to use two phones as triggers. 

Google has the Nest, Mini, and Gemini products.  How these people failed to properly integrate them from day one into the next big thing is a Harvard Business School case for how to screw up - big time. 

Home and Away didn't work well for me for years and two homes, but finally in the third one it started to work...had they had this since the beginning it might have always worked

Even with home away feature turned off it continues to operate as if on throws the thermostat into eco mode all the time when we are home. We also use tmobile home internet so location services are conflicting I believe.

I noticed recently that my Nest thermostat switched to away mode because it decided that nobody was home. Since we were all gathered in the living room at the time, I thought that was weird. It makes sense now--I follow best practices by placing IoT devices on a separate VLAN.

As I discovered yesterday. For months Home or Away routines have worked intermittently. Possibly due to Nest and Google Home interaction. Not just my latest phone, also the previous one. 
With Google Thermostat UK being ported from the Nest app into Google Home, decided to uninstall the Nest app. Running through the Home or Away settings in Google Home, lo and behold, WiFi was available to geolocate. Now come on, this should have been made available years ago. A fact I seem to dimly recall providing feedback about this very subject.
Got a positive geolocaton result last night with my lights turning on as I approached home. Hopefully repeated tonight. TWT (Time Will Tell)

what are you talking about. I've been doing this for a while now, it's not new.

It was location based, not Wi-Fi based, afaik. There wasn't a toggle to pick the home's Wi-Fi network and tell it to use that.

This is long overdue.  Sometimes the geofencing would malfunction. 

Malfunction was nearer 95% with me, despite routinely going through settings and reinstalling apps to determine what the cause was. 

How does this work when there's more than one person in the home?  Example, if I leave I don't want things to stop working while my wife is still there.  

Same with location geofencing. If one of the devices is still home, then it stays in Home mode. If all are Away, it goes to away.

It shouldn't. Devices in the home, should detect presence. There is a list in the settings to select device preference.

Google Home gets an obvious but welcome way to tell when you&#8217;re home

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Google Home uses a number of triggers and devices to check if you're home or away. Now, it's adding another trigger into the mix.

Google Home gets an obvious but welcome way to tell when you're home

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Hadlee is a technology journalist with almost 15 years of experience, graduating with a national diploma in journalism from the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He previously worked for websites in his native Cape Town, South Africa before joining the Android Authority team in 2018. Hadlee's areas of expertise include chipsets, cameras, and niche brands you haven't heard of. He spends most of his working time writing news, features, and the occasional device review. Despite his love of Android, Hadlee is a recovering Windows Phone addict and is intrigued by non-Android platforms (RIP MeeGo and BlackBerry 10). When he's not at his desk, you can find him playing on his Steam Deck, visiting local retro videogame stores, or at the beach.

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