Alternative to Life360?

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Some I’ve heard mentioned include

  • OwnTracks
  • Home assistant with nabu casa

  I haven’t explored either

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  • retro@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’ve been using OwnTracks for a while and it works really well.

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• helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Not sure if this will help, but find my device on F-Droid is awesome. You can use generic SMS and send “fmd locate” or you can use third party apps such as signal. This makes it so it’ll only trigger whenever you receive that text message rather it running 24/7

  It allows you to setup a trusted set of contacts who can then send you a text message “fmd locate”, and it’ll reply with an openstreetmaps link showing where you are. It’s not real time tho

  And you can disable it simply by turning off your location

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How do you use Signal?

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  • thegreekgeek@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh this is cool! It reminds me of aeGis from CyanogenMod back in the day.

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• mbirth@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  After Google Latitude shut down, I went with OwnTracks logging into the light-weight php-owntracks-recorder.

  I’ve since migrated that to Traccar (normally used for car fleet management) on server-side and am still using OwnTracks to push the location updates from my iPhone.

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  • powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    OwnTracks setup was a bit confusing to me and I never got it working. traccar looks pretty nice though, I’ll check it out!

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    • mbirth@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m using OwnTracks in HTTP mode as I couldn’t be bothered with MQTT. For that, you only need the HTTP(S) endpoint/URL to log to, optionally user credentials and then it’s a “TrackerID”, “UserID” and “DeviceID” so the receiving server knows who’s talking.

      Side note: Traccar uses different ports to receive different protocols. For OwnTracks protocol, the correct port is 5144.

      My OwnTracks configuration is basically like this:

      • TrackerID: 1
      • DeviceID: Phone
      • UserID: mb
      • URL: mytraccarserver.com:5144 (the port itself is HTTP-only IIRC, but I’ve mapped Traefik Proxy in front of it which handles HTTPS)

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• KrapKake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Didn’t see it mentioned here but check out Keep Alive.

  f-droid.org/packages/io.keepalive.android/

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• 0as16@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My family has moved to www.zood.xyz and it has been pretty solid. github.com/zood/ is the github repo for it.

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  • ad_on_is@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    are they even actively developing it? repo seems abandoned

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  • helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I would use this but unfortunately it is Android-only.

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• Unmapped@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I was trying out Locus and seem pretty good. But looks like its not maintained anymore. ☹️

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  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Damnit, I just learned about locus a month or so ago.

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• aordogvan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m also using Traccar. Found this yesterday and was going to give it a try. It’s called Dawarich.

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Maybe some DIY solution with the Termux API and a web server?

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• GravitySpoiled@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There’s an osmand telegram plugin. Someone may want to rewrite it for matrix?

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