With all this confidence I'm upgrading right now! lol
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Hey what’s life without a little excitement? It’s merely an app and a driver not an irrevocable firmware that bricks devices so why not spice it up a bit and if not working revert to the 2.0.9 version. That’s what I would do 
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I was actually joking and being serious... 
I did upgrade...mostly to help out people like you and Bryan that spend their time writing the code....I mean someone has to test it right?
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Yeah. Found a couple of issues. Working them now. Will update.
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ok. I pushed some fixes back to @bptworld to examine and republish. This should be a more stable release. Now let me tell you why I got into this mini-project and spent a whole Tuesday reverse-engineering code
I was looking to create an informative dashboard on Sharptools.io. However, for non-standard devices, some standard capabilities needed to be created beyond presence in order to utilize the hero tile feature that lets you display information and toggle active state based on what they recognize as normative capabilities.
So I needed to create the following capabilities:
switch - to toggle state of wifi tile
contact - to toggle state of charging tile
acceleration - to toggle state of distance tile
temperature - to allow for multiple states of speed tile - that would allow me to define custom speed ranges for each member of the family (wife = leadfoot, me = standard driver & 2 * teens who should be careful as I am watching them)
While going through this, I encountered some inconsistencies in the presence logic and some triggers for updates so I decided to go in deeper and sort things around in a manner that I understand them. I tried to leave some comments to what I changed and streamlined and certainly there may be some issues still lurking which I can take a look at once reported.
In the meantime, below are two screenshots of how my dashboard looks like as a whole and an annotated version that I hope clarifies some things.
Enjoy, Avi
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New version on Github...
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I know it’s early in the day but curious as to how is the latest version behaving for everyone? I’ve been driving around today and it seemed to work well for me.
Note that in this version, I commented out the fixes for the unreliable home reporting that were implemented as part of the MaxGPS code by @bptworld a month or so ago in favor of consolidating multiple code logic snippets into one which I believe may have been the culprit - basically utilized existing logic in the code in a more consistent manner. If you still get inconsistencies it may be prudent to enlarge the home radius a tad in the life360 app itself to compensate for tolerance in your phone’s gps accuracy?
Also note that as of recent iOS releases, every app can be flipped between coarse and fine grain location reporting so make sure you go into your iOS settings -> life360 ~> location and switch on “precise location” setting.
I realize that I may also be mistaken and that commenting out the code may cause the reported issues to return - if that’s the case it can be reinstated.
Thanks, Avi
Well I updated this morning. My wife and I have both been home all day and it has not been jumping randomly to away mode. I'm on Android and she is on IOS. So far things seem good. Though, we haven't tested leaving yet.
Though, I mostly noticed the jumping to away issues when I was home alone for an extended period of time.
@bptworld Just a question, I have updated and now under bpt-statusTile1 is says BTRY - NO WIFI
But if you look at the current states list is shows
wifiState: ON
prev errors gone...not seeing anything else out of whack at this time...
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New version up on Github
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Found a couple more issues that affect history tracking. Will send fix tonight. Sorry.
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Isn't this fun! lol. You're doing great, btw. Really appreciate the new code. 
(free's me up to add more to Event Engine 
)
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New version on GitHub 
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I do enjoy it. a bit too much... with the advent of time I would have refactored the code from scratch purely as a learning exercise but unfortunately I have a company to run and this "hobby" is way too addictive to a point that my family is starting to disown me 
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New version on GitHub...
Huge update from Avi...
App:
- 2.5.0 - 12/06/20 - Moved all member location functionality to Location Tracker child Driver
Keeping only Circle level functionality at parent app level
Driver:
- 1.5.0 - 12/06/20 - Moved all location functionality to child driver from parent app -and-
Added:
- Minimum Transit Speed Preference - use to set a custom speed threshold
for inTransit to become true (follows Km or Miles unit preference)
- Minimum Driving Speed Prederence - use to set a custom speed threshold
for isDriving to become true (follows Km or Miles unit preference)
- memberName attribute - First Name + Last Name from Life360 member info
- memberFriendlyName driver preference and attribute
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updated and set the additional parameters for testing..... Mr. Roboto....nice
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