I have HA tracking my/my daughter’s and my wife’s phone and it works pretty well, except that at times I’d like to know exactly where someone is and right know it’s all a bit delayed. I know I can enable ‘high accuracy mode’ on each of the companion apps which works really well but it takes a massive toll on the battery.
I was wondering if there is a way to manually request a GPS location sync from HA.
Something like a ‘refresh’ button on a Lovelace dashboard that when pressed will update the location of a given tracker.
You do this via a special notification you can send using the phone’s associated notify service (should appear in your developer tools / services tab).
Hook this up to a script, an automation or a push button in lovelace, and you’re golden!
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