Coming Home
After Nest has been updated, a notification will be shown on your phone and optionally an Android Wear device. The notification can be disabled if desired.
Coming Home keeps track of all users of the same Nest and only sets status to away if all users are away.
This is an Open Source project that can be found at https://github.com/rmceoin/cominghome
If you run into issues, take a look at http://cominghome.mceoin.net/ for more detail. Discussion group can be found at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/coming-home-app If you still have issues, please email me so that I can help troubleshoot.
If you're running Marshmallow, you may need to go to the phone's Settings -> Battery -> Battery optimization and change Coming Home to Not optimized. Android puts background services into Doze and turns off networking for them. I'm looking into a different method of performing the background network call to the backend, but until then, this setting should do the trick.
Category : Tools
Reviews (27)
Unless I'm missing something, it seems if you have more than one person living in your house, your auto going to away when one leaves. I have two s7's, one signed in with one nest account, the other signed in with another sub account.. if phone A leaves the area, and phone B is still there, it still triggers away mode. Aside from that, if you live Alone, the product will work great.
Wonderful app that fixes an issue with the Nest that I don't understand why they haven't implemented yet. The only suggestion I have is that it needs support for multiple SSID's to use as "home". I have a 2.4ghz and a 5ghz network with two different names and my phone will lock onto one or other. Please add this in a future update! Keep up the great work!
This has worked great on my and my wife's phone for the last month, but all of a sudden has stopped setting to away. Return home always works. The log says, "Backend updated: Nest not updated: Others at home" but we are together with our phones so no one else is there. I have removed the app from both of our devices, and the association with Works with Nest from my Nest account and reinstalled and re-setup, but it did not resolve my issue. Maybe a software update?
Anyone else experiencing battery drain with this app? Fantastic. Supports two users superbly. Would love to have the ability to add more than one SSID for "home detection." You should also add a DONATE button, or at least tell us where we can. You're doing Nests job for them!
Just got even better with the ability to change the away trigger time. With having the Nest Cam, I want the timer to be small.
Would love to try this but it crashes within seconds every time on my nexus 5.
Great app, and even better developer. This app adds functionality that Nest should have included from the start. The developer is active and quick to respond.
Force closes instantly when trying to open on the Nexus 6P opted into the Android N Developer Preview 3. Not going to rate down for this, as it seem excellent. Hopefully it updates to support Android N, or future versions of Android N work with it!
Does not work with Nougat 7.1.1 on Nexus 6. Force close immediately on open every time.
The ability to disable setting away for X hours would be good (for when we go out and leave kids with a babysitter) and recognising multiple home network SSIDs would make it perfect.
Nest application down to 3 stars. This should have been implemented by them for 2 years now.
Been using this for a few days and it's working awesome! Hoping to see some energy savings this month
FC on Android N but otherwise it worked well. Even with Google making improvements in their auto away this just worked much better
Can't understand why Google Now doesn't work with my Nest. This app switches between home/away as expected and faster than the Nest. Thank you for creating this app!
Was waiting to buy a Nest, as I wanted geofencing, so when I saw this I bought one. Excellent app when coming home, but it isn't setting Nest to away when we leave the house. When that is fixed, I'll give it 5 stars.
This updates my Nest fine when I arrive home. When I leave home it shows that I left the geofence, but it never updates the back end, leaving my nest to never be in away mode
Was great on s7. No longer works on my s9. App crashes
Force closed on Nougat. OMG nest home and away automation is terrible still! Help
Good app, better than auto-away, but uses a bit too much battery.
Force Close on Open - Not Supported
Thanks for adding the SSID check! Internet high five!
Force closes immediately upon opening with a Google pixel
Does what the Nest should do out of the box
Once again not updating my nest on either my phone or my wife's.
Worked at first. Now wont set my nest to away. tried uninstalling and reinstalling and associating with nest again. Still wont set nest to away.
In the history, you can see it puts Nest in away mode one minute, then puts it back to home mode in the minute! All while I'm in bed! This keeps going on in the middle of the night while my phone is charging and connected to WIFI. I would wake up in the middle of the night because I'm cold even under the covers. The app shows I'm in the geo fenced circle! Edit: Soon, please! I'm cold!
I'm suprised Google, who owns Nest and majority of Android doesn't have this app functionality you'd expect straight out of the box on their Nest products and Nest app. I called Nest and Google years back as well as recently and got no solutions. This independent developer did what one the largest tech companies can't - do their job and get it right.