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[Cobra]

Really cool app Justin!

Andy

[JustinL]

@dwspmail

Is it necessary to have a paid subscription to life360 for this to work?

Multi-Place is designed to work with the free version of Life360. The app checks to see if the address Life360 reports matches the address input for a place in Multi-Place. This is a feature beta testing will help fine tune though. It hasn’t been tested much yet to see how Life360 address formatting impacts address matching, Beta testing will sort that out and the first release of Multi-Place will indeed support the free version, with tuned address formatting.

[april.brandt]

Bookmarked. I will load it once my house is one color again. Interesting app!
@aaiyar
@stephen_nutt
@LosinIt

[njanda]

Wow, awesome man.
It’s not something I’ll be using but I will be keeping an eye on how this rolls out and gets used etc.

[dwspmail]

@JustinL

Recommended Configuration: Life360 + Vehicle Presence Sensors
Multi-Place proves useful in any configuration, but to get the most out of Multi-Place, use an app like Life360 in conjunction with presence sensors for your vehicle(s). Multi-Place exploits the circles you define in Life360 for your presence across different places. Just name the places the same as in Life360, tell Multi-Place the address for those places, and you're set. Multi-Place works with the free version Life360 using address recognition as well. You could also use any app that tracks your location using GPS and is capable of sending a webhook that Hubitat can use to set a virtual presence sensor. The same idea can be used in conjunction with beacons to capture presence in your vehicle. Detailed steps to set this up along with beacon product recommendations are found in the readme.

How do I link this app with my Life360 account? Do I need to install the inbuilt Life360 connector application?

[JustinL]

@dwspmail

How do I link this app with my Life360 account? Do I need to install the inbuilt Life360 connector application?

Good question. Sorry wasn’t made clearer. I do not believe the inbuilt Life360 app actually exposes any info. The app you need is Life 360 with States:

[RELEASE] Life360 with States - Track all attributes with app and driver. Also supports RM4 and Dashboards!

*** BPTWorld apps are no longer being developed or maintained. Thanks *** Check out this post for a new user supported version... Introducing 'Life360 with States' Life360 with all States Included Hubitats built-in app only exposes the 'presence' attribute, This app and drivers expose all available attributes. All attributes are available for use in Rule 4.0 and any other app. Works great with my Life360 Tracker app for both Life360 paid and free plans! Features: Port of ST Life360 a…

[JustinL]

The latest beta just pushed to github improves place matching if you are using Life360 Free. This new version translates the address you enter for a place into geocoordinates and checks whether the position Life360 reports for you falls within a geofence set around the place's geocoordinates. Anyone using Life360 should uninstall and re-install with this latest beta.

[JustinL]

How is this app working for you, beta testers? Any bugs or suggestions so far?

[JustinL]

FYI With no bugs or other feedback reported as of late, I will prepare this package for release shortly.

[stephen_nutt]

I am trying to enter a trip and the field for the times are not large enough to show what was entered in field. If I move my mouse pointer over a blank or click to enter data, all I can see are the up & down arrows.

[JustinL]

What browser are you using? If it’s safari, I believe some of those issues are hub wide issues with time input fields.

[stephen_nutt]

Google Chrome

[JustinL]

I'm not able to re-create this issue in Google Chrome. I have a C5 hub and am running platform version 2.2.3.145. What hub do you have and what platform version are you running? Also, what version of Chrome? Also, it would be a good idea to check to see if any of your other apps exhibit the same behavior, to pinpoint whether it is hub or browser specific vs app-specific.

[josh]

Excellent work, @JustinL!

[karnik.abhijeet]

@JustinL I like the clean look of your tracker tile and would like to include it in my dashboard. I'm running into some setup issues, most likely due to my knowledge. Below is what the tracker tile looks like for me.

I have enabled the API's as you suggested

I don't know enough to tell if that error in the API could be causing it. Any assistance is appreciated.

Edit: Using Life360 from BPTworld, created tracker, defined some places

[JustinL]

Please enable debug logging. Then, with live logging open in one browser tab, click Done in the Multi-Place app and send me the resulting log. Also, what type of images are you using for the avatar and the places?

[karnik.abhijeet]

I'm using all default images.

[JustinL]

What version of the app are you running?

[karnik.abhijeet]

Downloaded from HPM

[JustinL]

@karnik.abhijeet - please manually install the latest version v1.01-beta (not on HPM yet) and provide me any debug output if the problem persists.