Gabb Wireless child tracker

Third party integrations
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My wife and I just got our son a gabb wireless child tracker watch which uses Verizon’s network and gps and Wi-Fi. Was wondering if anyone has the ability to integrate the tracking aspect into HomeAssistant for us, unless there is and I just don’t know about it. Thank you in advanced for any and all help.

Here’s their website >>> https://gabbwireless.com/

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I would also appreciate this integration, and I’d be willing to work on it myself. But… from what I can tell, Gabb does not have any sort of API for integrating with 3rd party services.

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Has anyone get this figured out, as I would love to see this. I’m wanting to do the same for my child. Is ot possible to install companion app like on the Samsung watches?

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Any luck on this @blarocjr ? Either way, how are you liking the watch? I’m in the market for my two kids.

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Does the Gabb Watch connect to Wi-Fi? This might be a way to at least determine if it is home or not.

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Nope, just cell service.

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Curious about this as well for the Gabb watch

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I just stumbled upon this github repo GitHub - woodsbw/gabb: A Python library for interacting with the services powering the Gabb watch/smartphone.

I’m not a coder so not much help when it comes to building an integration…

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At least its a start. Especially as we are planning on picking up one of their phones soon! With this you should be able to put in a request.

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Just trying to keep this alive. I’ve got 3 kids 6 and under. Need to figure this out.

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I was able to go to the site and request that they add Homeassistant app to their store. I would imagine if they got enough request, they would look into adding it.

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I’ve decided to poke around with this, I’m able to build a python script that leverages the gabb library from the repo provided and pull all kinds of great data, including the GPS location of each device in my account (I have more than one child). Very promising that his and the safezones can be loaded into HA, albeit, I’ve never built an integration with HA previously…

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Got a MQTT-type “integration” working. It’s very early code but if you are Docker-savy, it just works…would love feedback on it.

jaycollett/gabbwireless_mqtt: Simple Docker Image to run a Python script which will fetch Gabb Wireless device details and publish to a MQTT broker.

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I really hope you continue and others step in to help. This jas been needed for a long time!! Great job!!

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I created a docker in my UnRaid, added all of the different variables. I got the container to start, but when it starts I get the following message in the logs.

/app/gabb_mqtt_publisher.py:27: DeprecationWarning: Callback API version 1 is deprecated, update to latest version
  mqtt_client = mqtt.Client(protocol=mqtt.MQTTv5)  # Use MQTT version 5

The docker is seeming to work though!

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Yup, it shouldn’t prevent anything from working, I need to update the code there to use the more modern library for MQTT.

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Awesome and thanks for the docker!