Enable Location Tracking

Mobile Apps Home Assistant Companion for Apple
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When trying to enable location tracking the app will freeze. Have to close and re-open.

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I have the same problem trying to enable notifications.

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Same issue here

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I’ve managed to enable location tracking but cannot att the track_ios: true to my home assistant confirguration file. It says that it is not supported.

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What’s “track_ios: true” doing, when is it needed?

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It replaces the individual location tracking per zone settings on the device so that I didn’t have to create another database just to store that one thing.

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So what does it do? Won’t HA trigger home/away if it’s not enabled?

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I’m having the same issue. adding track_ios: true seems to be a solution to a different problem. The application freezes when trying to tap “Enable Location Tracking.” I’ve tried re-installing the app.

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Latest .42.4 and Enabling Location / Notification freezes the app and eventually crashes. IOS Component enabled. Do we need to perform any other actions inside the config file before attempting to enable?

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Uninstall the app from your iPhone and reinstall should be fine after that.

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Uninstalling / Reinstalling got the Notification section working. Location still freezing.

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Can confirm this is also happening to me - iOS App itself freezes when enabling Location. Notification enables just fine. Is this the best place to watch for fixes to this issue?

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UPDATE: I deleted and re-installed the app, this time I tried turning on Location first, then Notifications. Both are successfully enabled now; not sure why that fixes it.

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Did you have 1.0 installed originally? For a couple of people that was the case, they were having crashes and then reinstalling fixed it.

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I was having issues as well with setting up the location tracking. I had set up notifications first, and they were working beautifully. But then when I tried to click on the enable location tracking in the settings, it would just freeze app.

So I tried what @fouram suggested , to uninstall app, and re-install. This time enabling location tracking first, then notifications. I did this and it worked. Now I have location tracking enabled just fine, and notifications too.

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Glad to hear you got it working. Not sure if it was the reinstall, or the change in the order of feature enabling, or both? Hopefully that’s enough of a clue for the devs to track this one down.

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@fouram suggestions seems to be working: :thumbsup:

1. Uninstall and reinstall app
2. Enable Location Tracking
3. Enable Notifications
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Thanks so much for figuring this one out guys, I can now reproduce the problem and fix is coming in 1.0.3!

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Hey what OS version was everyone on? @fouram @IROTRAS @Airpal, @ChipSkylark37