Getting Geohopper to work with XTension

Thu Jun 4 16:16:59 EDT 2015

George,

I have future plans to use beacons also.  I am curious as to why you need the house approach before the garage opens?  The garage opener is a perfect button you need to push anyways and the arriving event is then pretty obvious.

Do you have a lawn to mow? if so,  what is the announcement of arrival software supposed to do as you go back and forth?  You said foolproof, so I am thinking of tests.  Is it the arrival of the actual person, or the car, or both pieces of info that you need?

I understand that you are going to solve it your way no matter what, but I am curious as to the root requirement and its value in case we too have the need and don’t know it.

There are some high end Alzheimer's kits to help with wanderers.  They probably don’t meet you need, but again, I don’t remember what that need was. (no pun intended)

Steve Hume
> On Jun 4, 2015, at 3:45 PM, George Handley <ghandley at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> I regret advising that that’s exactly what I’ve seen both Geofancy and Geohopper doing inconsistently as well. 
> 
> As a matter of fact, Geohopper seems to always correctly know when it’s just left the geofence, but will send both commands one right after the other. Ugg! Geofancy also is dead on when leaving the geofence, but just like Geohopper, is problematic upon entering the geofence to the point I might already be in the house before it finally announcers that I am “now” within the geofence. :-(
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> George
> 
> 
> 
> I’m again watching my wife on “Find my iPhone,” and 
>> On Jun 4, 2015, at 2:35 PM, Gordon Meyer <bb at g2meyer.com <mailto:bb at g2meyer.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Addendum: Looking at the log in more detail, I also see that during the middle of the absence, when I was more than 3 miles away, it registered two additional “gone” events. Now technically it was correct, I was gone, but why it decided to wake up and send those when I was already outside the fence, and had been for hours, is just another example of how this technology is useful but not bulletproof.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jun 4, 2015, at 1:02 PM, Gordon Meyer <bb at g2meyer.com <mailto:bb at g2meyer.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey, George -  So altho I don’t use this feature myself, I configured Geohopper to send a get request to my web server. I didn’t think it was working at all, because when I tapped “test” the webserver did not record any activity in its logs. Then I ran out of time, and left home for the evening. Out of curiosity I checked the logs this morning and found that Geohopper did correctly send the GET when I left and came back. So the lesson here might be that the “test” button doesn’t trigger the GET webhook. Maybe you need to actually exit the fence to see it work.  —Gordon
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jun 3, 2015, at 5:09 PM, George Handley <ghandley at kc.rr.com <mailto:ghandley at kc.rr.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Good evening Thomas,
>>>> 
>>>> The correct way of setting up Geohopper is ONLY to use the “Get” commands. James does not presently support the “Post” command. The rest of what you said IS all I’m doing, but Gordon hit it on the head that it is also necessary, after completing all the “Settings” to go back into Locations, select the “info” button on your geofence, select Web Services there (It’s also in “Settings,” and place a check mark next to your arrival/exit commands.
>>>> 
>>>> I’m still testing, and can’t get my wife’s phone on the system. If I click on the “Test” button, there is no notification, and yes, Notifications ARE turned on in the phone’s Notifications settings. My iPhone will correctly receive confirmation that the “Test” button worked.
>>>> 
>>>> Ah… tomorrow is another day. :-)
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> George
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 3, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Thomas Arman <tarman at me.com <mailto:tarman at me.com>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> George, 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I think you are over complicating the issue.
>>>>> 
>>>>> When you cross a fence, Geohopper sends the POST as stated.
>>>>> 
>>>>> You probably need to try the identical POST from some device to see if Extension hears it.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Nothing should be involved other than:
>>>>> 1) Your iPhone - Geohopper sending a POST
>>>>> 2) Your Extension machine - Listening on the proper port for that message.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Tom
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Jun 3, 2015, at 12:20 PM, George Handley <ghandley at kc.rr.com <mailto:ghandley at kc.rr.com>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Good morning Gordon,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Well, you definitely found something I didn’t know existed, and I have turned the two on, and I can successfully test on the iPhone, but nothing is sent to XTension. It may be the Test button just confirms that it can be communicate and I actually have to leave the geofence to make it talk to XTension. I’m going to be trying that in a moment.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I will say that I also tried running the Mac desktop version, and when testing my phone as above it did give me local notification on my iMac, but again no communication with XTension.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I’m thinking for those of us using Geohoppy with just Maps may need the desktop version running too.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I’m trying everything I can think of, and thanks for continually trying to help.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> George
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On Jun 3, 2015, at 9:07 AM, Gordon Meyer <bb at g2meyer.com <mailto:bb at g2meyer.com>> wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Do you have the webhooks enabled for the location you're monitoring? See screenshot where I have one enabled. 
>>>>>>> 
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