Google Maps location sharing

tismondo · August 6, 2017, 11:07am

@Ashfaaa Sadly, no. I’m not certain I’m using the right data?ds.extension file - the Firefox instruments pane ouputs a bunch of them and it wasn’t clear to me from the instructions if I need to use a specific one or if any would do.

I tabled working on it for now but plan to revisit it. Maybe something is different now that I’m running hass.io? (unlikely, but worth hopeful thoughts, haha)

NotoriousBDG · August 6, 2017, 12:58pm

@tismondo & @ashfaaaa, it took me a while find the right payload for data_freq. In the end the one that worked looked like this sanitized string:

[[[00000000,[{"00000000":[null,null,[[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,[[null,[0,null,"000000000000000000000"]]]],[null,null,null,null,[[null,[0,null,"000000000000000000000"]]]],[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,[[null,[0,null,"000000000000000000000"]]]],[null,null,null,[[null,[0,null,"000000000000000000000"]],0,null]],[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,[[null,[0,null,"000000000000000000000"]]]],[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,[[null,[0,null,"000000000000000000000"]]]],[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,[[null,[0,null,"000000000000000000000"]]]],[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,[[null,[0,null,"000000000000000000000"]]]],[null,[[null,[0,null,"000000000000000000000"]],0]]],[null,[0,null,"000000000000000000000"]],null]}],null,null,0]]]

ashfaaaa · August 6, 2017, 1:32pm

@NotoriousBDG in my config it looks similar but it not working. I have 2 things to clarify

URL: if I’m not wrong this I have to get from the last line in python script which I converted from curl starts with # requests.post('https://aboutme.google.com/ and ends before, headers=headers,

2.home_url: this is a link for my [email protected] G+ which looks like this https://plus.google.com/+username if using as self-mode do I have to mention this?

and did you change anything on the android phone. if yes how? I read above that even if you’re using self-made you have to share location to dummy@gmail. I have done it.

NotoriousBDG · August 6, 2017, 2:30pm

@ashfaaaa, my url looks like this when using safe mode:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/_/PlusAppUi/data

The portion of the request looks like this:

requests.post(‘https://plus.google.com/u/0/_/PlusAppUi/data’, headers=headers, params=params, cookies=cookies, data=data)

All i did on my phone is share my location with the account that I’m using with this component.

ashfaaaa · August 7, 2017, 7:43am

@NotoriousBDG i tried setup safe mode and i got this errors

2017-08-07 10:38:11 ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.core] Error doing job: Task exception was never retrieved
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\mohammed\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\asyncio\tasks.py", line 239, in _step
    result = coro.send(None)
  File "C:\Users\mohammed\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\homeassistant\components\device_tracker\__init__.py", line 274, in async_see
    dev_id = cv.slug(str(dev_id).lower())
  File "C:\Users\mohammed\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35\lib\site-packages\homeassistant\helpers\config_validation.py", line 236, in slug
    raise vol.Invalid('invalid slug {} (try {})'.format(value, slg))
voluptuous.error.Invalid: invalid slug locate me (try locate_me)

NotoriousBDG · August 7, 2017, 12:47pm

@ashfaaaa, check out the thread Invalid slug. It looks similar to your issue.

ashfaaaa · August 7, 2017, 1:20pm

@NotoriousBDG that was it. I had space between ID… thank you so much. it works now.
how long you’re using this ? does it work better than Owntracks?

lotohov · August 7, 2017, 4:50pm

i put in gplus.py in custom_components/device_tracker , started fine did ‘pip install BeautifulSoup4’ but looks like i unable to find rith data_freq string

lotohov · August 7, 2017, 5:34pm

it must be this big ?

vishal1082 · August 16, 2017, 10:44pm

Can anyone help me with my configuration? This isn’t working:

device_tracker:
  platform: google_loc
  id: vishal_phone
  url: 'https://plus.google.com/u/0/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx?pageId=none'
  cookie_sid: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxx.'
  cookie_hsid: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
  cookie_ssid: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
  data_freq: '[[[xxxxxxxxxxxx,[{"xxxxxxxxxxxx":[null,null,[[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,[[null,[2,null,"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"]]]],[null,null,null,null,[[null,[2,null,"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"]]]],[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,[[null,[2,null,"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"]]]],[null,null,null,[[null,[2,null,"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"]],5,null]],[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,[[null,[2,null,"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"]]]],[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,[[null,[2,null,"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"]]]],[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,[[null,[2,null,"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"]]]],[null,null,null,null,null,null,null,null,[[null,[2,null,"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"]]]],[null,[[null,[2,null,"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"]],3]]],[null,[2,null,"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"]],null]}],null,null,0]]]'
  home_url: 'https://plus.google.com/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'

All I get is this error in Home Assistant:

2017-08-17 04:01:59 ERROR (Thread-4) [custom_components.device_tracker.google_loc] No response received to the location query
2017-08-17 04:01:59 ERROR (Thread-4) [custom_components.device_tracker.google_loc] Google didn't send the location. Updating data['at']

Also, every time I try to get this data in Chrome, I get different a different value for the ‘URL’ field. I don’t know what to choose. I am trying to do this in safe mode.

virualdo · September 6, 2017, 2:38pm

i think that for this custom component you must to use platform: gplus

bachoo786 · September 7, 2017, 2:14pm

@virualdo @djj @aa755 I get an error using platform: gplus

ERROR (MainThread) [homeassistant.loader] Unable to find component device_tracker.gplus

Where do I have to put the gplus.py file in raspberry pi?

virualdo · September 7, 2017, 5:12pm

put the file in the /-config directory-/custom_components/device_tracker/gplus.py

bachoo786 · September 7, 2017, 5:19pm

@virualdo ok now I get an error:

ERROR (Thread-4) [homeassistant.components.device_tracker.gplus] Google didn't send the location. Updating data['at']

virualdo · September 7, 2017, 5:44pm

try this, i’ve the same error and this works for me.

bachoo786 · September 7, 2017, 6:01pm

how do I get the home url? is it https://aboutme.google.com ?

virualdo · September 7, 2017, 6:09pm

in Self Mode https://aboutme.google.com
in Safe Mode, log into [email protected], and visit the Google Plus profile page of [email protected]. The url of this page goes to the home_url field above

according this page:

github.com

aa755/home-assistant.github.io/blob/patch-2/source/_components/device_tracker.google_plus.markdown

---
layout: page
title: "Google Plus"
description: "Instructions how to use Google Plus to track mobile devices in Home Assistant."
date: 2016-11-1 19:00
sidebar: true
comments: false
sharing: true
footer: true
ha_category: Presence Detection
ha_version: TBD
---
If you share your Android's location with Google, this component fetches those locations from Google's servers to your Home Assistant. This component does NOT directly communicate with your phone, thus using this component does not cause any additional battery drain.
Suppose your Android phone is linked to your Google Account, say [email protected].
This component can be used in 2 modes: 
- Self Mode: It visits "aboutme.google.com" while appearing (to Google) to be logged in as [email protected]. Using this mode requires putting your Google cookies into the home assistant config file. If anyone gets access to these cookies, they may be able to do anything with your google account, e.g. delete the account.
- Safe Mode: In this safer mode, the component visits the Google Plus profile page of [email protected], while appearing (to Google) to be logged in as a dummy Google account, say [email protected]. In this case, (only) the cookies of [email protected] are needed. Just for the initial setup, you need to install the Google Maps Android App on Android, and log into the app as [email protected], and in its location settings, share the location with [email protected]. After that, you can uninstall the Google Plus app on Android.


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bachoo786 · September 7, 2017, 11:11pm

What space did you have?

ashfaaaa · September 8, 2017, 3:59am

I had space between two words

id: Ashu android

it should be like this

id: Ashu_android

bachoo786 · September 8, 2017, 10:02am

honestly this seems to be a simple task but every information I try and obtain from all Chrome and Firefox doesnt help. There are many data?ds.extension and I have selected one of it. Is it a specific one to choose?

I keep getting the same error: ERROR (Thread-3) [homeassistant.components.device_tracker.gplus] Google didn't send the location. Updating data['at']

Is it possible if you could please share your device_tracker in your configuration.yaml ?
Thanks.