So this is a continuation of a thread I made about some geocoded location issues I have been having with my setup. If anyone has any ideas in the slightest, I would certainly appreciate some feed back.
First instance: Noticed that my geocoded location for my iPhone would jump to a single address over 800 miles away. Never any variation in the spot, exactly that one address every time. Downloaded life360 and let it soak for a few days; life360 reported consistently whilst HA Companion reported my phone as jumping to that location randomly all while I am at home and not moving. I have an iPad I keep running at all times that was reporting my home location fine, with no variations whatsoever.
Kind of the fix: Removed the HA companion app from my phone, deleted all instances and mentions of my phone from HA and re-added it. Since then, my phone location has been consistent and not jumping. BUT, now my iPad is jumping to that address with an odd amount of consistency that I did not observe with my iPhone. In the past 24 hours, it has jumped to that address 6 times, each time for almost exactly 53 minutes.
Other variations in the location are from small, minor location jumps to say my next door neighbor’s address, which I expect to see from GPS.
Normally, I would dismiss it and chalk it up to variations in GPS signal and what not, but the fact that it swapped to a different device now concerns me. Another concern I now have is, earlier this evening I was on the iPad and noticed my time zone had changed - to exactly the same time zone as the location jumping, as they are an hour behind me. I also noticed that a time based automation that I was running, was still active (motion sensor based lighting) which leads me to believe there is more going on.
Some facts:
HA home zone location and time zone are set perfectly fine and accurately afaik.
iPad and iPhone are on different iCloud accounts, so it’s not a matter of someone being physically logged into my account in that location - plus ensured only the expected devices are on the accounts.
Router NTP and time zone are set up and are reporting accurate times.
iPad was moved to the my ISP modem, as I currently IP pass-through from an ISP modem to a managed router so I can monitor/manage traffic. Location jump persisted, so likely not a router or anything related issue.
When I actively saw the iPad location jump, I opened the HA companion app and went to map, and the location indeed had it at that location. After the app was in the foreground, the location updated to my actual address.
There are no proxy or VPN services running on my router or i-devices.
Both the iPhone and iPad have location services always enabled, with background app refresh on.
This issue has persisted through a back up and restore to a different device, as I swapped from a Rasberry pi to a X86-64 mini PC.
Thanks everyone
