I would like to monitor location of users without having port forwarding enabled (or any additional tunnel including HA cloud). I am just too paranoid. Only tunnel I have is Tailscale, however I do not want to have it always enabled on my phone so companion app is not a option.
Which app is currently working flawlessly with home assistant for location tracking? I am able to deploy anything on AWS as backend. Must be supported by iOS and Android.
Then there is no option, the phone needs a way to send it’s location back to home assistant.
Do you actually want location tracking or do you just want to know whether someone or a device is home or not home?
I hope I don’t get in trouble for hijacking this thread a bit, but I have had pretty much the same question for some time now. My thought has been… I can see my wife’s location on Google Maps Location Sharing, so it obviously is POSSIBLE to get tracking information from her phone into my observable universe, without “tunneling” or “open ports” or whatever. Wishing there was a way to get this from Observing In Google Maps into Home Assistant.
There is a google maps integration. I’ve tried it. When it does work it’s very delayed and the auth doesn’t last very long.
Guys, I ended up with Cloudflare and I am filtering all requests not having the right user agent. For Android it is working beautifully, for iOS I need to get the right useragent from the source code. Once I have it I can put it here. I really recommend to use cloudflared add-on with tunnel, custom domain and WAF with user agent filtering.