Life360 Device Tracker Platform

Third party integrations
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I’ll definitely look into that. As I’m quite new to HA, it’s all new territory, but I think it’s amazing what can be done.
Thank you so much for your support.

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We´ve all been there, so use the forum…search, ask and be curious! you´ll love home assistant!

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Hi all. I’m new to the forum and to HA. This forum has sooo much amazing stuff and incredibly more intelligent folks than I. I’m really struggling with getting Life360 working like some of you have shown. My life360 set up is very, very basic and only shows our family (4 of us) whether we are home or not, nothing else.

When I go to Entities, there are only 4 entityIDs there and they are all the device_tracker.NAME

I don’t have anything regarding Life360 in my config file, just the card I created…

square: true
columns: 1
type: grid
cards:
  - type: entities
    entities:
      - entity: device_tracker.NAME
      - entity: device_tracker.NAME1
      - entity: device_tracker.NAME2
      - entity: device_tracker.NAME3
    state_color: true
    title: Life360

I welcome any assistance. TIA!!!

Cheers,

Mario
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Hi Mario,

It sounds like you configured the Life360 integration ok, and the associated HA entities were created. What isn’t working the way you expect?

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thank you for responding!!! I guess maybe I’m wondering if there are others “entities” that show up in the Life360 App that aren’t seen in HA. Maybe I’ve misunderstood some of the folks that have posted here that have more than just the Home or Away entities showing up in their cards.

Is there any way that I can get the ACTUAL edited location to show up on the card other than just HOME or AWAY?

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The device_tracker entities all have several attributes, including latitude & longitude. Click on one of them and you should see the “more info” window. Click on the INFO tab and expand the Attributes.

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You can also create a Map Card to see where they are on a map.

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Phil,

thx again for your response, it is greatly appreciated!!! Please forgive my ignorance, but when I click on one of the device_tracker entities (my own) and then expand Attributes I can see a long list. However, I can’t click on any of them as you suggest. What am I missing? Also, I’m on a Mac using Firefox.

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I meant click on one of the entities. The window you’re showing above is the “more info” window I was referring to. I didn’t mean to click on one of the attributes. There’s no “INFO” tab, I think, because you’re using a newer version of HA than I am. I’m still on 2023.2.5. I think this window’s arrangement changed very recently.

Anyway, when you say, “Is there any way that I can get the ACTUAL edited location to show up on the card other than just HOME or AWAY?”, do you mean the address attribute? AFAIK, the only way to do that with the standard dashboard cards is to use an attribute line in the entities card. E.g., see: Entities Card - Attribute Special Row. E.g.,

- type: entities:
  entities:
    - device_tracker.NAME
    - type: attribute
      entity: device_tracker.NAME
      attribute: address

This actually results in two rows. There’s no way that I know of to get all of this in just one row using standard dashboard cards, but I believe there is a way using custom resources. E.g., you could try: custom-cards/secondaryinfo-entity-row: Custom entity row for HomeAssistant, providing additional types of data to be displayed in the secondary info area of the Lovelace Entities card (github.com)

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Phil,

Once again, THANK YOU sir!!! That was exactly what I was looking for. Your patience is greatly appreciated. I’ll play around with it and take a look at the links you provided. Again… THANK YOU!!!

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Hello, since yesterday I am having problems with this integration, it asked me that a reconfiguration was necessary, when I clicked to accept it gave me an error, I left the images, this morning I continued with the same problem, I have deleted the integration and now I cannot add it It gives me an authorization error, does this problem happen to someone else… THANK YOU!!

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Sounds like there is an issue at theife360 end.

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OK! Thank´s

We only have to wait!!

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the problem seems to be there move to Cloudflare. There is an issue being discussed here: GitHub Life 360 Issue
In addition GitHub user alexyao2015 has create a temp fix:

FYI I just created a fix for this. If you want to use it now, you can download this repo and copy the life360 folder to the root of your config directory. Restart to apply changes.

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Thank you!

Is this just the crux of using unofficial API’s in HA?

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Yup, about the gist of it. We use them, but as they were never intended for HA, the developer has no obligation to tell us when they change it, or break stuff. The reality is that relatively few companies provide a (free) official API, so many of HA’s integrations are based on unofficial / reverse-engineered APIs. Such is life and occasional breakages like this are the price we pay for integration rather than having to use 10,000 different, single-use apps.

Thanks for the quick workaround fix which is working a treat. Will keep an eye out for a proper fix in the near future (probably 2023.8.x)

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I tried to use the repo from github but I couldn’t get it to work.

Do I need to remove the existing integration config and use that one to create a new one?

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Just drop it in the root and reboot. Make sure its in the root config folder.

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I’m running home assistant core. For me I put the fox files into this folder, owned by the “homeassistant” user, same as all the other files. Thanks Alex!

/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/life360

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I attempted the temp fix by @ alexyao2015 - copied life360 folder to config. Rebooted.

Didn’t work.

Anymore guidance would be welcome. Will stay tuned.