Could it be that the account you are using to share is a gsuit managed account? Those do have a default expiry setting of 14 days.
It is gsuit account. I cant find anywhere hv default 14 days expiry. Probably I would need to change this to Gmail I believe. Thanks for the reply. I will dump another Gmail cookies and wait another 14 days.
https://support.google.com/a/answer/7576830?hl=en
Kinda clear. Make a simple gmail account and use that.
Thanks, I moved to Google account… hopefully this is 1 off job this time :D. Can we put a note for 14 days expirygsuite account on the google location page ?
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Please edit the page the way you see fit and make an MR to the developers.
Thank you @clabos for these great instructions. I spent all day tinkering trying to get this working and then found your instructions and sorted it within 20 minutes!!
The only things I did different in case they help anyone were;
Used VMware Workstation Player instead of vSphere to quickly set up my linux desktop within Windows. When setting up the Ubuntu environment, I had to change a setting in my bios setting to turn on acceleration or something.
I think when trying to run the pip command, pip wasn’t installed by default so I had to install this, but the Ubuntu terminal told me exactly what to do so was straightforward
To find /.local/bin it’s in /home/username/
I think that was all I had any issues as the instructions were amazing.
After spending a day installing this, I just installed owntracks, life360 and gpslogger from HA integrations in about 15 minutes. I have no need for all 4, but I found Google maps quite slow to update my location into HA when out and about earlier, so I plan to keep an eye on which is most accurate/quicker to update/battery friendly in future. Though Google has a big advantage of not needing an additional app.
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I can confirm latest Home Assistant (0.97) fixes this issue.
I was able to use mapscookiegettercli 0.2.0 and Firefox on a Windows computer to grab the cookie back in June. Cookie was sitting on my RPi but not working until I just updated to Home Assistant 0.97 that has the latest locationsharinglib.
Thanks everyone!
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Thanks a lot for your tutorial !
Thank you! It is useful at least. 
I tried it to setup related to official description without any succes because that assumes everyone expert in the IT things.
Thanks for the contributions guys, always appreciated and it’s been a fun journey.
Unfortunately google maps device tracking is no longer usable for me as I can’t manage to see which cookies are invalidated to then manually updating 5 android devices (I put old phones in cars to track our cars also).
Are there any other options out there other than spending money on standalone GPS trackers?
It has nothing to do with the cookies on client devices (phones) just one cookie needed for the ha server.
so a single cookie for 5 devices on 5 accounts tracking 3 people and 2 cars individually?
You configure one account for home assistant. Then every account that wishes to share their location shares it with that account. That account is used by home assistant to login and retrieve the location of all the others. The cookie is only needed for that account.
hello did you guys succeed in getting cookie file form maps-cookie-getter ?
i have installed python and pip on windows 10
command pip3 install mapscookiegettercli worked fine with no errors when i try
command maps-cookie-getter i get below error
anyone can help me out in this?
Edit:
tried in different pc and it worked.
how did you manage? i have the exact same
python and pip installed fine, also the mapscookiecgettercly
but it doesnt run
do you need to run it from another location? where is it actually installed?
you need to file location where maps-cookie-getter script is located. in one of my pc it was not located default python scripts folder… try searching your pc for “maps-cookie-getter” if found it copy location and follow below video how to add that location in system variable path.
once you get location of maps-cookie-getter follow video from 0.36 sec
hope this helps
Ok, thnx , have it running now
OK so Google maps have stop working for me in HA 0.97 I don’t know why.
1: Have taken out password
didn’t work
2. have got new cookies
didn’t work
3. have taken google maps off HA and restarted and put it back on
didn’t work.
4. try any thing els that came in mined.
P.S Yes I always had a NEW Google account just for HA.
my log…
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/device_tracker/setup.py", line 77, in async_setup_legacy
discovery_info,
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 57, in run
result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/google_maps/device_tracker.py", line 43, in setup_scanner
scanner = GoogleMapsScanner(hass, config, see)
File "/usr/src/homeassistant/homeassistant/components/google_maps/device_tracker.py", line 55, in __init__
self.scan_interval = timedelta(seconds=config.get(CONF_SCAN_INTERVAL, 60))
my config
- platform: google_maps
username: [email protected]
# password: xxxxxxxxxxx
scan_interval: 300
# username: !secret device_tracker_username
# password: !secret device_tracker_password
well I fixed it.
just putting it on here if anyone that have the same thing happen to them in Ha 0.97
well I taken google maps out of my config and restart and then tune off my laptop (my HA) off for 20sec
then tune it back on
then turn on google maps back in configs
and restarted
Now its working 100%
So, what’s your opinion? I have tested 2 untill now…
Google maps, updates slow on a Motorola G5, but works well on my OnePlus … Advantage, no extra app needed, no battery drain…
Life360, works quite well, but some battery drain…
Want to test others too, I read about owntracks, that it doesn’t update anymore, untill you open the app