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

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Hi @bptworld - I was looking at your Hubitat github repo.. I was going to fork it and make a few small changes to the life360 driver -- then submit a PR if you were interested. Anyway, I noticed everything is in .zip files.

How do you view changes to the source code this way? Do these bundle/package managers only accept .zip?

Anyway, I figured if I fork it then it'd be easier to see what changes I made.. mostly for myself so I can get any future updates too.

Here's what I was changing:

I know the driver polls every X (30) seconds and because of this every 30 seconds there's a bunch of updates made to the device, including the lastUpdated time, map, etc. But, what I'm really interested in is getting notified when actual changes occur -- either the device moved or the battery level changed.

I also wanted to add accuracy to the driver - which can be used on a map to show a radius around the PIN.. it indicates the user could actually be anywhere inside that circle. accuracy is passed from the device in Life360 - at least I saw it coming from both my kids devices (iOS and Android). The smaller the circle, the more accurate the location is.
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Here's most of the changes I've been testing with on my hub.. it's working well so far. Obviously there might be some cases I'm not considering but I wanted to at least put it out there in case it benefits anyone else too.

    if(logEnable) log.trace "In generatePresenceEvent..."

    // JP: only interested in sending updates device when location or battery changes
    // -- current values --
    def latitude = member.location.latitude.toFloat()               // current latitude
    def longitude = member.location.longitude.toFloat()             // current longitude
    def accuracy = member.location.accuracy.toFloat()               // current accuracy
    def battery = Math.round(member.location.battery.toDouble())    // current battery level
    // -- previous values (could be null) --
    def prevLatitude = device.currentValue('latitude')
    def prevLongitude = device.currentValue('longitude')
    def prevAccuracy = device.currentValue('accuracy')
    def prevBattery = device.currentValue('battery')
    if (prevLatitude != null && prevLatitude.toFloat() == latitude && prevLongitude != null && prevLongitude.toFloat() == longitude 
        && prevAccuracy != null && prevAccuracy.toFloat() == accuracy 
        && prevBattery != null && Math.round(prevBattery.toDouble()) == battery) {
        if(logEnable) log.trace "No change: lat:$latitude, long:$longitude, accuracy:$accuracy, battery:$battery"
        return
    }
    log.debug "changed: lat:$latitude (was:$prevLatitude), long:$longitude (was:$prevLongitude), accuracy:$accuracy (was:$prevAccuracy), battery:$battery (was:$prevBattery)"

EDITED to handle null values better

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