Comment on Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline

• pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Home automation using geofencing, and my partner likes to get a notification when I’m heading home from the office

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• warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have the HA app on my phone, it reports my location back to my HA server.

  I would like if Reitti could retrieve my location from my HA server, instead of asking me to upload it again to Reitti. Uploading my location in short intervals drains the battery very fast, it’s something I want to avoid if I can.

  Additiinally, I don’t want to expose anything to the internet. So I pay for the Home Assistant cloud subscription that does it for me in a more secure manner than what I could implement with the little free time I have. Reitti could retrieve my location more securely if it did so without exiting my LAN.

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  • danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I had a similar setup with Home Assistant in the past so I understand your usecase. For Reitti to detect visits somewhat reliable it needs at least one datapoint of location data a minute. We build location clusters with minimum 5 points in 5 minutes. If HA tracks that often it should work. HA probably tracks more than that.

    I could add an integration that it fetches the data from Home Assistant. Do you mind in creating a feature request?

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    • warmaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Do you mind in creating a feature request? Done 👍🏻

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Location sensor would be a good minimum bar.

  A custom card for your app that is just basically a iframe into your app with auth would also be pretty decent. Your version of a map looks really nice.

  Maybe surfacing metrics of distance traveled or number of geolocations.

  I’ll have to install the app and play around with it to make other recommendations but those are the first things that come to mind.

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