Not 100% on this, but I'm not sure everything's working as expected on my end. Not saying it's this app or not, I'm a little confused to be honest. Maybe someone can offer some clarity...?
The other half leaves work and it seems to reflect this pretty snappish. The agitating thing is that the distancemetric doesn't seem to update more than a couple of times through the 40 min bus journey, generally resulting in being stuck at say, 1.6 miles away for quite some time. Then she sometimes physically arrives home whilst it's still showing as being 1.x miles away. Within a minute or two everything catches up.
Common sense would say "ah, the mobile signal must be patchy!". But the thing is, if I open the Life360 app, I can see exactly where she is, and can watch her moving on the bus etc.
I don't understand why the app seems able to consistently show the right location, movement, speed (never did seem to be able to make any use of that before) but the driver doesn't. It';s as if (for me) the app updates instantly, but the driver here is taking a lot longer, like 10 mins plus.
Any thoughts?
(I'd prefer to post this with some associate screenshots showing exactly what's going on with the android app and the device screen simultaneously to be absolutely positive about the whole thing. But I can only do this whilst she's travelling and I only noticed this last night. I can try this evening when I'm back home and she's returning from work again to give more clarity.)
As stated many times, Life360 with States can only grab what the Life360 API offers. It checks the current data once every minute and gets the latest data. We can not control how often Life360 updates the API info at their end. All we can do is keep checking.
@djh_wolf to add to @bptworld response. Life360 seems to run two separate clusters. One that is a (near) real-time cluster that feeds their operational environment inclusive of their own app and that supports push notifications to their app etc and another that is responsible for their API access. In general data seems to replicate between the one to the other on a small lag. Lately (a week or two) I've been noticing increased lags in their replication to the extent that one day they popped up a message on their own app saying "Its not you, it's us" describing issues with their performance. Suggest continuing to monitor the issue you are experiencing and see if it is getting better with time. On my end today there is somewhere between 45-90 seconds lag which is relatively very slow to what Im used to but it could be that they have slower performing clusters right now in certain geo regions than others.
Thanks to both of you for the continued responses.
That makes perfect sense - 2 clusters. I falsely presumed that if the Life360 app could 'see' what was happening, then Bryan's awesome little app could see the same thing, which then had me wondering if either something was broken or my install had somehow botched.
The lags I'm experiencing are far, far outside the boundaries of 90 seconds.
I tried running through the troubleshooting steps on the Life360 site, and I gave it another crack tonight.
Plus in my usual state of general child-induced exhaustion, I'd screwed up part of my webcore.
Don't want to be too presumptuous, but a combination of tweaks seems to have led to far better results. Didn't really have the time/energy to check properly tonight. But I'll shout back once I've cleaned a few things up.
Incidentally, I'm guessing this would be way tidier with an app. I'm using a combination of sharptools. Webcore, and the virtual attribute device
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so ... this is cool. What's the best way to set an alert when someone is xx minutes or distance from home? I'm looking to get a quick reminder pushed when the kids are almost home from school to meet them at the stop.
@jonathangreene - Assuming you are on the paid version, you can set a place (geofence) for the bus stop or anywhere else along the bus route in the Life360 app and get alerted when the bus pulls in
Oh that’s great. I was trying to sort the distance but an actual zone is probably easier. there’s a friend of my son’s that the bus passes by that would do the trick! Thanks!
User does not need paid version. In free version user can save as much places as needed. You just do not get life360 notifications but if using webcore that shouldn't be an issue anyway.
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