It’s been at least 5 years since I looked into GPS location tracking with home assistant. Just found out that Life360 is not working any more. I’ve looked around the forums for alternatives, but it seems there’s no clear suggestion/reliable solution to track a mobile phone.
Some people suggest to use the home assistant app, but that would give full permissions to my children to home assistant, and obviously that’s not good. I also looked into user permissions on the home assistant app, but that seems to be unclear on how to set up.
Is there a recommended app for phone tracking (iPhone), or a way to use the official home assistant app and set permissions?
I thought iPhones already had tracking built in. I don’t have one, so not sure. But, thought I had heard my Appleite friends bragging about that years ago.
This would be a huge PITA, but you can use this.context.user_id checking in automations that you don’t want the kids using.