As far as reliable background location updating goes with iOS, Life 360 has been the most reliable client I’ve used with Smart Things (It blows owntracks out of the water on reliability). It would be fantastic if someone could write a component for Hass. In the mean time I’m tempted to try and adj…

Life360 is now a core integration thanks to @pnbruckner and can be easily set up through the UI (at Configuration -> Integrations). Here’s the documentation and here’s a dedicated forum thread to discuss it.

[image] shaddow: that also in the background would publish to mqtt in owntracks format You wouldn’t need to have owntracks manage the history if it is a component because the life360 component would have it’s own history. Unless you mean track it in owntracks website or something?

Yea it’s a location mapping server they wrote. https://github.com/owntracks/recorder . They have a docker image where it and mqtt run together so it’s set out of the box to grab and map the data.

Ahh so it’s completely external to Home Assistants recorder? Well if that is the case I would recommend setting up an automation that takes data from Life360 and pushes it to that. It seems wrong to have this component change it’s data structure to match a, more or less, unrelated component. If y…

Yea, it just subscribes to the owntracks mqtt topic and uses the standard owntracks format that the owntracks app uses that home assistant already supports.I had previously considered taking any location events (say from any device tracker) and using a payload template to grab the data and format it…

Hi @shaddow , you didn’t tag me so I didn’t know you mentioned me until I happened to go back and search this topic. :slight_smile: Which, BTW, I did because I have an update for the custom Life360 device tracker platform I made. Maybe I should be posting this elsewhere, but oh well, here goes… The …

Hi @editter , I successfully configured your addon in my Hassi.io (v 0.69.1) it works great both in MQTT and HTTP but I’m trying to add a sensor to monitor the devices battery level and I can’t figure out how to do that reading this page is it possibile? can you help me? thank you in advance

Is this what you are looking for? sensor: - platform: template sensors: eric_battery: friendly_name: Eric Battery unit_of_measurement: '%' value_template: '{{ states.device_tracker.eric_phone.attributes.battery|round }}'

I can’t believe that was so simple! I’ve tried in so many different ways and no one was working thank you so much!

+1 for including this Life360 Device Tracker Platform in the default. I’ve been using it for a few weeks without any issues. It’s much more reliable than any of the other device tracker platforms that I’ve played around with.

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pnbruckner (Phil) May 4, 2018, 3:11pm 212

I created a new topic for my custom integration. I figured I should stop distracting from the existing integrations discussed in this topic. If you have any interest in using my integration, see: