It's not a big deal - I was just thinking of a way to view all family members from my laptop remotely. I don't know if there's a way to access the device page remotely. You're right though - I can just bookmark the Hubitat device page and click on view larger map link
I remember finding out a little while ago that any Hubitat app can create a webpage so I just added one that listed all of the Life360 members in a large google map.
It might not be worth the effort - just remembered it while on my laptop and didn't want to open the Life360 app... (I'm not sure how I'm going to get my family to switch away from Life360 exactly but hoping to someday!)
As as side note (something cool coming soon... ) One can embed the recorder live map of all users, or the past history in a dashboard tile as well for easy access.
Most of the false location jumps are now eliminated but not all.
I think there might be minor adjustments that could help.
My sons problematic phone jumped 1km away from home without no reason. Old story but this is what it sometimes likes to do.
Presence changed "not present".
Transition Direction changed "leave"
Street address changed to something else
SSID: Stayed connected as it should because phone never leaved
Then after few minutes:
Presence changed back to "present"
Transition Direction stayed "leave"
Street address changed to home address
So did I remember right that presence should not change if:
SSID stays connected
And should Transition Direction change if presence changes back to "present" from "not present". When phone located itself back to home, transition direction did not change and it is still as "leave". Transition region is home.
I think there should't be case where presence is present, region is home and transition direction is leave.
Sorry if this has been asked before, but I'm wondering about the reliability of the owntracks app on android. Do you need to keep that persistent notification or is it not necessary? I would rather not.
Thank you!
@lpakula, I have been incapacitated since my request for notifications. Apologies for the delay in testing and responding.
Thank you for adding the notification feature and implementing the suggestion that another user made for "per user" notifications. I still need to fine tune it with notifications of certain people leaving/arriving at certain defined locations, but that seems too complex to code into such an app so will create some of those specific notifications through Rules. WAF suffered last week when the whole family left together, and the home is in two Regions, and she said "When we leave home, I'm getting over a dozen notifications at one time. How do I turn them off?!?"
One request: please allow us to customize the text of the notification. If nothing is entered, or the customization slider is off, then your default would be used. A number of us use Pushover instead of the Hubitat notifications, and so I would like my notification to be, for example
"[H]^%user%^%user% %event% %location%." (and then code for a link to the tile)". i.e. "[H]^John^John left School " Pushover allows us to set the title of the message, the priority, and even include links. If we could format the date/time that would be great, but not a biggie.
If you mean persistent notification appearing in the Notification drop-down, I believe yes, one does appear, since the app is running in the background. There is an option to disable the notification but I'm not sure if/how that affects the app runing in the background.
I'm seeing the same thing. Looks like it's primarily happening on Samsung phones from what I've been able to determine. Maybe get if the HE app can also provide a "Local" connection, then I can create a proxy to allow the connection from the phones to come in, and also, potentially use the proxy to shorten the URL on the phones to something like tracker.example.com and forward to the full local address.
Somewhere in this 1400+ post thread, someone had mentioned an external website/tool that allowed you to enter coordinates and radius to visualize and tweak our defined Regions.
Iām having great difficulty in finding that post. I swear I had bookmarked it.
Looking at my recorder logging, I am noticing this for myself as well (Android Pixel 6 Pro). This morning leaving my neighborhood for work, it shows a couple points on the roads I was taking, and then one sort of randomly off a different road, definitely a way I didn't take, I'd say about 1000ft away. Probably just a bad triangulation, so I'm not too worried about this one.
The other one I noticed was after I arrived home. About 20 minutes afterwards I noticed I got a not present notification, and then within the same minute a present notification. Phone was definitely in the house, and connected to wifi. Not sure if wifi cut out for a split second and the phone decided to update or what exactly. Seems like there is a 10 second difference between the 2 points, the one which jumped, and the one which fixed it.
I'm guessing these are more of an Owntracks app issue more than anything, so not to worried. Just wanted to keep the feedback coming.
Recorder definitely makes it nice to see what's going on though!
Anyone else seeing multiple notifications when someone leaves a region? On my brides iphone, I'm often getting 2 and 3 notifications. There are not multiple regions on the iPhone so that isn't the cause. I'm seeing this on all regions on the iPhone.
I'm going to turn on logging and see what I can gather tomorrow but wanted to see if I'm the only one seeing this behavior.
) One can embed the recorder live map of all users, or the past history in a dashboard tile as well for easy access.
