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"When I get home" / "When I leave home" commands do not work
These commands are parsed (correctly) to monitor(@org.thingpedia.builtin.thingengine.builtin.get_gps()), location == $location.home.
But get_gps does not work at all in any currently supported Almond (current location is always Unknown or a fixed location configured by the user) so those commands have no effect.
I believe Home Assistant can leverage the Android companion app to get the user's precise location (as a person entity), so we could leverage that to inject the location through the right layers in Almond.
Home Assistant approach it with this integration https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/device_tracker/ so you don't need to use phone, also because if on your way to home, the gps could stop working far away (undegroung garage, then elevator), or otherwise you have to fence a wide area, and that will work also if you are "around" but not mainly "at home", with devices attached to wifi, or bt, is a lot more reliable for presence detection.
But oobviously with the "person" integration you can have also gps https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/person/
So we can just check these integrations
Right. I think the approach to this is to extend get_gps with some "area : Enum(home,work,away,unknown)" field that would get updated behind the scene based on the device tracker. We cannot make up some Home-Assistant-specific class because location is an extremely general concept that needs to be handled as builtin in Genie to avoid all sort of NL confusion.
Anyway this is not going to be a simple change so I'm not putting this on the radar for 2.0 beta.
get_gps could be the general even in case HA is not user, while in HA it could be used "device_tracker", and "person" and just read from there, maybe even be extensions of get_gps