One says tomato, other says tomahto. 
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Thx for the info--much appreciated!
The latter is, of course, correct. Alternative opinions are... well...
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All bow to his Lordship J Cleese! The master...
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You can try posting that request here: GitHub · Where software is built
And see if they can add a periodic call home for HTTP connections (like the Android ping).
Those devs can be a bit prickly so if you get a snarky shut down response, don't sweat it. 
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Replying to this post which suggests Google Maps cloud links should have thumbnails, as mine don't 
Any idea why?
Also - is there any way to make the MemberLocation Tile and GoogleFriendsLocation Tile use local links rather than cloud links? I only use the dashboards locally so would rather disable cloud links if I can (and would negate my thumbnail issue above!).
Thanks for this great app BTW 
You need to enable thumbnails:
If the image size is too large, then it can timeout before loading though.
If you don't want cloud links, there is a easy-peasy slider right here now :
I’ve done all of that, images were resized to 96x96 and 96DPI. They work perfectly in local links, but cloud links have just the coloured dot associated with the member.
If I disable cloud links the tiles in the dashboard show an errors saying “Google maps API key missing or cloud links disabled” or similar wording. So it’s clear you’ve coded it to require cloud links for dashboard tiles to work.
Ahhhhh... I see what you mean. I'm sure the insanity that I thought about when I added that cloud link disable made sense at the time, but I need to look through this again.
Thinking out loud, I don't think there should be a reason that it blocks everything. I'll need to do a bit of work and get back to you...
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Thanks! Very happy to test betas if needed.
I’m hoping you can just use the local links in the tiles if cloud is disabled and the code will insert the right one based on that setting.
No need. I just pushed an update (v1.8.27) that should address that for you.
You do lose the ability for the Google maps if cloud links are disabled (Google thing, not a me thing).
I don’t understand?
Google family maps worked fine with local links (just without the thumbnails) until you pushed this version.
Member maps local links are still published and appear to use Google maps, yet have been (unnecessarily?) disabled when used inside a member tile.
In fact, I still had my local link Family map URL in my browser, refreshed it and it works fine, just it's not displayed in the OwnTracks app settings page anymore.
So I have this with cloud links disabled, but I know all the local links to create these work perfectly still.
Edit - The member tiles now work since the phones sent a location update. Family tile still not working though.
Sorry for the many replies!
I updated Line 4157 of the app code to comment out the Cloud check when generating the family map tile. It works fine for me loading the dashboard in a browser (in my LAN of course).
if (APIKey && isMapAllowed(true) ) { //&& isCloudLinkEnabled(request.HOST)) {
What doesn't work (and this didn't work with cloud links turned on, in this version or the previous, so not related to the above), is the mobile app complains about Google API permissions for iFrames. I tried adding Embed API to my API key security settings but no joy. Any ideas?
I pushed 1.8.28 that should fix that. The issue is the links need to get rebuilt on the local or cloud endpoints when you change the toggle.
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My maps seem to be working fine but I just noticed this.
I did just install Pi-Hole so I'm wondering if it is blocking the check?
I disabled it to see what happens in the next few hours.
Thanks for making time for the community, but we're going to have to insist that you take the rest of the week off (with pay!).
Have a great Thanksgiving (everyone).
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Thanksgiving is old school for the colonists.
Got all Tryptophan'd last month.
Is the map API check working?
The geocode is separate, and depending on how you locked it down in the google cloud console, it might not be able to access the geocode (changes lat/lon to addresses). That is separate from the map operation.
Awesome thanks! Dashboard/tiles all work locally now. Thanks for your support and efforts on this from me too
My dashboard within the Hubitat mobile app still shows the Embed API error, but that's not a huge deal as I can access the dashboard via a browser directly. I'm guessing it's due to the way the app is showing the dashboard in an iframe. Probably not an easy fix without changing the JS based Maps API to the Embedded Maps API.
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