I had a smart action called Home, when I was home it would set the ringer volume to 100%. It worked ok for about a month. Sometimes it was slow to recognize when I had left home, but it was pretty quick to know when I arrived home.
As of a few days ago, it stopped working. It never activates. I have wifi on as always.
In trying to figure this out, I've noticed that Maps is frequently off on my location; it shows me 10-30 yards away from where I am, which it identifies as various adjacent addresses. I am guessing this is why the smart action isn't triggered.
Maps used to be uncannily accurate, even being able to tell me where in my house my phone was.
The question is, has GPS reporting changed, or has the GPS in my phone become less accurate?
Anyone else experiencing this?
Two things...
First, if you have WIFI, don't use Location to trigger you as being home, use the actual WIFI connection. If you keep WIFI off, use the Verizon App called Verizon WIFI Auto-On to turn on (and off) WIFI when you arrive and leave home. It works beautifully since the Verizon app turns WIFI both On AND Off, and does so when you reach about 1/4 mile from your home which is plenty of time for WIFI to be ready and active when you are finally within range of your WIFI router. Since WIFI is VERY tight location-wise, you'll almost NEVER have the issues of the Smart Action you want to turn the volume to 100% doing so unless you are essentially IN your house, or perhaps at the farthest away...in your driveway as it does for me. I pull up my driveway, and just as I throw the car in park the switch is being made for me.
I've found Smart Actions to work best when you LIMIT the number of triggers rather than having multiple triggers, so using WIFI as the ONLY trigger to show I was either home or at work (we have WIFI there as well and the Verizon app sets WIFI on when I get to work as well), gives me the best results AND allows me to keep WIFI off most of the time to conserve battery power. To identify the car, I use the charging and dock triggers.
As for the map locations being off, Google Maps has a contact info email address and you can send them your address (I described my house as it appears on the satellite map) and tell them the address it says you are (I also described the neighbor's home), they'll actually FIX the location information. Only thing is it may switch back at some point a year or so again when they do another flyover for Google Earth photos. My house used to be listed as my next door neighbor's address about 40 yards away but I sent them the information, and not only did they fix it, but they emailed me back first to tell me I was right, then later to tell me the fix had been completed and even gave a link to the map showing the newly fixed addressing.
In answer to your comment of how it used to actually show where in the house you are, I can go into the bedroom and watch my icon move. Last night I was sitting on the bed which is at the front corner of my house (windows on both sides), and I could see the icon literally sitting right on the corner of the physical building. If I go into the Family room at the opposite corner of the house, the icon is then sitting right on that corner of the building. I think the issue is going to be cleared up for you if you notify Google of the discrepancy.
Good luck!
