iCloud Binding : iPhone Location Inaccuracies

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I doubt this has anything to do with the binding itself, but just wanted to see. My iPhone has not moved from my desk for over 2 hours. Haven’t even picked it up, if you can believe that. In openHab logs, I can see messages “icloud_device_ff10e1d9_2150ce7_location from X, to Z” and my rule prints out the distanceFrom(Home_Location) as 49.32342342

Is that 49 meters? That is woefully inaccurate. The next location update shows distance changed to 15 meters. Phone still hasn’t moved.

That’s a pretty big margin for error. Simple GPS inaccuracy?

2

If it is using GPS, indoor accuracy is suspect anyway due to signal issues (assuming your desk is not outdoors on the patio).

3

That’s what I thought. Still amazing in the giant swings between 13m and 55m.