GPS device tracking

Hello,

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.

Is this at all possible?

Thanks
Sups

You are in luck, as there is such a thing.

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!

You may want to rename the title of your post to “GPS location tracking - request updated locatin” so that future readers will find this thread easily.

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Thanks Rudd-o
I’ll give this a go over the weekend and report back.

Cheers.

Got this working with a toggle switch - high accuracy mode stays on for 5mins before turning off.
thanks again @Rudd-O

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