i hope so haha <| sep |> Geofencing only activates when you leave or enter that fenced area . So if you set the automation to set Away when your phone leaves the area , after that triggers and turns into Away you can set the status to whatever you want and nothing will happen to that status . Similarly , if you have your automation set to Standby when your phone enters the area , you can set the status to whatever you want afterwards and nothing will change it . As a caveat , if that geofenced area is too small , sometimes the system gets wonky . For instance , on my first night with Abode , my phone , which was next to my bed , somehow left the fenced area and reentered the fenced area causing the system to switch Home to Standby at 3 AM . After I increased the geofenced area size by a substantial amount the system no longer ever got confused by GPS weirdness .