EgiGeoZone Geofence

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About this app

EgiGeoZone is an Android Geofencing app which uses different sensors in your phone or tablet to determine your location and then to 'trigger' different actions when entering or leaving predefined zones that you can choose. It can trigger many actions directly, or simply display a notification on screen to do so. In other words, the app works in a similar way to apps like Tasker, which allows certain events to initiate an action on your smartphone or even a remote server.

* New for developers: Now you can develop your own plugins for EgiGeoZone *
* See: http://www.egigeozone.de/developer/default_en.html *

Note: To configure server connections and to send e-mails in the background a some special knowledge is necessary! Before leaving a bad review, please inquire for advice in the forum.

The following actions can be triggered when entering or leaving a zone:
- Contact a geofencing service, such as the Geofancy module from FHEM, to control home automation devices, or call your own URLs when entering or leaving a zone.
- Send emails
- Other actions:
Call 'Tasker' tasks
Switch Wi-Fi on or off when entering/leaving (Works only with Android smaller or equal Version 9)
Switch Sound on or off when entering/leaving
Switch Bluetooth on or off when entering/leaving (Works only with Android smaller or equal Version 11)
- Live Tracking

Possible applications:
- Open or close your garage door, turn on the heating or turn it down, switch lights on/off, etc. EgiGeoZone can interface with most home automation servers
- Co-ordinate your car share. For example, if the driver leaves work, another person can be be automatically notified via email, allowing them to get to the meeting place on time.
- When leaving the 'Home' Zone, Bluetooth turns on enabling your phone to pair with the hands-free in your car. When you get back home, it turns Bluetooth off again, saving on your battery.
- Upon reaching work, you can have EgiGeoZone switch the sound off, and and then on again when leaving.
- Presence and absence check on servers.
- There are many more uses - our users are finding new uses for EgiGeoZone every day.

Ratings and reviews

I wanted a fencing app that would disable mobile data when at home or other locations where I have WiFi to avoid unintended use of metered mobile data just because the WiFi dropped out for some reason. This is important on Android as you can not specifically ban both foreground and background use of mobile data per app as you can on iOS. This app can enable or disable WiFi but there's nothing about controlling mobile data which is more likely to be metered. So close yet so far...

If you are having problems... change to PathSense and then open each and every GeoFence you set. Click the Save icon on each one. Then reboot your phone. This seems to have worked for me. I'll update this if anything changes.

Does not work reliably. I waste data because my wifi does not reliably turn back on when I get home.

What’s new

Version 3.2.3:
- Updated libs
- Updated Pathsense