[Dead] Location Tracker

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Introducing 'Location Tracker'

Track your phone’s location. Works with the 'Life360 with States' app (free and paid) and with your OWN locations.

NOTE: This replaces the ‘Life360 Tracker’ app.

Send location data from your phone to Hubitat using either:

  • Life360 (Android or iOS)
  • Tasker with AutoLocation (Android)

Features:

  • Works with the ‘Life360 with States’ App and/or Tasker
  • Locations can come from Life360, Tasker and/or manually entered into the Places device page
  • Can create unlimited Places!
  • Know when a user has arrived, has been there or is moving.
  • Alerts - Get special alerts based on Phone Battery and/or Places NOT allowed
  • Can notify by Speech, Push and/or turn on/off a switch.
  • See your status on a Dashboard tile! Two tiles available, Status and History.

Link to the Life360 with States app.

Note: If you know of a way to get (name,lat,lng, optional: radius) from iOS, let me know!!

App can be found on my Github:

Parent:

V1.0.0 - 01/?/20 - Initial release

Child:

V1.0.0 - 01/?/20 - Initial release

Differences in Apps...

  • Life360 (phone app) - https://www.life360.com/
  • Tasker (phone app) - https://joaoapps.com/
  • Life360 with States - Pulls all the data into Hubitat from the Life360 app
  • Location Tracker - Pulls all the data into Hubitat from the Tasker app and Life360 with States to do some cool stuff! :wink:

HE Life360 Connector should be at the least disabled, if not removed as it is not needed.

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PLEASE do the install instructions in order. :wink:

Installation instructions - if using ‘Life360 with States’

Requires ‘Life360 with States’ to be already installed and working properly.

In HE:

  • Install parent app - Location Tracker (LT-parent.groovy)
  • Install child app - Location Tracker Child (LT-child.groovy)
  • Install driver - Location Tracker Places Driver (LTPD.groovy)

Installation instructions - if using ‘Tasker’ (Android)

Requires:

  • ‘Tasker’ to be installed on your Android phone (paid)
  • ‘Tasker’ add-on AutoLocation (paid)
  • Either an API Key from Google Maps or a Consumer Key from MapsQuest (both have free tiers)

In HE:

  • Install parent app - Location Tracker (LT-parent.groovy)
  • Install child app - Location Tracker Child (LT-child.groovy)
  • Install places driver - Location Tracker Places Driver (LTPD.groovy)
  • Install user driver - Location Tracker User Driver (LTUD.groovy)

On Phone:

  • Have Tasker installed and operating correctly
  • Have add-on AutoLocation installed (how to setup is below)
  • Follow the next few sections carefully to setup Tasker
  • Requires only 2 Tasks and 1 Profile
  • IMPORTANT: Capitalization counts when working with Tasker!
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How to setup - AutoLocation

Setting up AutoLocation

  • Click 'Start Monitor'

That's it!

How to setup - Task - New Places from Tasker

Setting up Location Tracker - New Places

This will be the same for each for you want to setup.

Create New Task

  • Open Tasker, go to Tasks, click the '+' in the lower right hand corner
  • Enter in a name for the Task - 'Location Tracker - New Place' and hit the 'check mark'
  • On new screen, hit the '+' again, on bottom 'Filter' type 'Query', select 'Variable Query'
  • Title: Name of New Place?
  • Variable: %PLACE
  • Hit the 'back arrow' at the top of screen
  • Hit the '+' again, on bottom 'Filter' type 'HTTP', select 'HTTP Request'
  • Method: Get
  • URL: This is the URL found in MakerAPI. Replace YOURAPPNO and YOURDEVICENO with your info and also be sure to include the /addPlace/%PLACE,%LOC,200 portion.
    ie. https://cloud.hubitat.com/api/19i34kajdi-kdjfdk-kdfjdk-kdjfdk/apps/YOURAPPNO/devices/YOURDEVICENO/addPlace/%PLACE,%LOC,200?access_token=akdjfdksj-akdfj-kdfjd-kakjf
  • Hit the 'back arrow' at the top of screen
  • On new screen, hit the '+' again, on bottom 'Filter' type 'Pop', select 'Popup'
  • Title: Location Tracker
  • Text: All set!
  • Hit the 'back arrow' at the top of screen

To save:

  • Hit the 'back arrow' at the top of screen
  • Hit 'Check Mark' at the top of screen

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How to setup - Task - Push Location from Tasker

How to setup - Push Location from Tasker

This will be different for each device you want to setup.

Create New Task

  • Open Tasker, go to Tasks, click the '+' in the lower right hand corner
  • Enter in a name for the Task - 'Location Tracker - Push Loc' and hit the 'check mark'
  • On new screen, hit the '+' again, on bottom 'Filter' type 'get', select 'Get Location V2' (make sure it's the V2)
  • Hit the '+' again, on bottom 'Filter' type 'if', select 'if'
  • Condition: %gl_coordinates 'NEQ' %PrevLoc
  • Hit the 'back arrow' at the top of screen
  • Hit the '+' again, on bottom 'Filter' type 'HTTP', select 'HTTP Request'
  • Method: Get
  • URL: This is the URL found in MakerAPI. Replace YOURAPPNO and YOURDEVICENO with your info and also be sure to include the deviceLoc/%DATE,%TIME,%gl_coordinates,%LOCSPD,%LOCALT portion.
    ie. https://cloud.hubitat.com/api/19i34kajdi-kdjfdk-kdfjdk-kdjfdk/apps/YOURAPPNO/devices/YOURDEVICENO/deviceLoc/%DATE,%TIME,%gl_coordinates,%LOCSPD,%LOCALT?access_token=akdjfdksj-akdfj-kdfjd-kakjf
  • Hit the 'back arrow' at the top of screen
  • Hit the '+' again, on bottom 'Filter' type 'variable', select 'Variable Set'
  • Name: %gl_coordinates
  • To: %PrevLoc
  • Hit the 'back arrow' at the top of screen
  • Hit the '+' again, on bottom 'Filter' type 'end', select 'End If'

To save:

  • Hit the 'back arrow' at the top of screen
  • Hit 'Check Mark' at the top of screen

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How to setup - Profile - Location Tracker - Activity

Setting up Location Tracker - Activity

Create New Profile

  • Open Tasker, go to Profiles, click the '+' in the lower right hand corner
  • Enter in a name for the Profile - 'Location Tracker - Activity' and hit the 'check mark'
  • Choose 'Event', type in 'auto' and select 'AutoLocation A...'
  • Click the 'Pencil' and select the ways you want to track.
    -- I have: In Vehicle, On Foot, Walking, Running, On a Bicycle and Unknown checked off. Min Confidence: 50
  • Hit the 'check mark' at the top of screen
  • Hit the 'back arrow' at the top of screen
  • Choose 'Location Tracker - Push Loc' that we made earlier
  • Hit the 'check mark' at the top of screen

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Whether you use Life360 and/or Tasker, anyone can create Places. All places are stored in a device called 'Location Tracker - Places' and is automatically created for you. Within this device you can Add, Edit or Delete any Place.

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I see you are doing some development work in there...looking forward to the result...

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You do great work. Your Life360 with states allows lat/long to 1.0E-4 (and yes, I know the values waiver with sensor report positioning changes). What is your minimum usable nRadius for this new app?

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Not sure if this maybe got turned on when you were fixing the L360 problem a debug message pops up for me even with debug logging turned off for the device.

I created a pull request to fix it... I know it's picky.

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