Life360 integration & always showing away

Third party integrations
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Symptoms and observations …
I’m sure its me and something I have configured… It seems to be working… but is it?
Life360 is working on my phone just fine… and I can see all in my “Circle”

Example

I have the new icon on my main display… which shows my image… so I know HA is reading the known_devices file. The other icon with my name is an Entity that HA seemed to have created
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The HA instructions noted that the device tracker would create this file but it never did… I manually created and deployed it.

The map is showing my two zones… and when I toggle the add_zones attribute the zones I have defined in 360 show up overlaying the ones I have defined in HA.

My installation of HA IS NOT exposed to the net… it is only accessed from home on the same LAN…

From my log:

[quote]WARNING (MainThread) [homeassistant.loader] You are using a custom integration for life360 which has not been tested by Home Assistant. This component might cause stability problems, be sure to disable it if you do experience issues with Home Assistant.[/quote] …

Understood! But no errors.
From Configuration.yamal:

device_tracker:
platform: life360
username: XXXXX
password: XXXXXX
interval_seconds: 60
prefix: life360
show_as_state: driving, moving, places
driving_speed: 18
max_gps_accuracy: 200
consider_home: 180
max_update_wait:
minutes: 45
members:
- Aaron Pitts
add_zones: false
zone_interval:
minutes: 15
filename: life360.conf
new_device_defaults:
track_new_devices: true

From known_devices.yamal
devicename:
name: Aaron Pitts
picture: /local/Aaron.jpg
mac: 60:F1:89:9D:65:BC
track: true

Defined Zones…
zone:

  • name: Home
    latitude: 33.069380
    longitude: -117.075251
    radius: 100
    icon: mdi:home
    consider_home: 180

  • name: Work
    latitude: 32.7011423
    longitude: -117.248209
    radius: 300
    icon: mdi:account-multiple

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Please use the instructions (that are hopefully still at the top of the page) to format your YAML code so we can read it properly.

I would suggest adding this to your configuration:

logger:
  default: info
  logs:
    custom_components.life360: debug

Then restart HA. Look in home-assistant.log for messages that contain this string:

[custom_components.life360.device_tracker]

This will show you what it is doing. If you get no messages with that string, then it may not be working. (Although, given the WARNING that you did get, it probably is.)

Wait, I think I see your problem. Your members option is probably wrong. Do you want to track everyone in your Life360 Circle, or just yourself?

You need to delete the entry you manually made in known_devices.yaml. (And if that was the only one, then just delete the file entirely.) Once you have life360 configured correctly in HA, it will create entries automatically.

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Everyone in the circle…
the yamal formatting got removed when i did my copy and paste here…

I think you were right removing my name from the members may have done it!
I was in “Monkey Mode”… you know when you cant get something to compile and you just start changing things and hitting recompile!

I members of my circle are now showing up on the map and on the main dash…

I removed the members from the config… and this from known_devices

devicename:
name: Aaron Pitts
picture: /local/Aaron.jpg
mac: 60:F1:89:9D:65:BC
track: true
and viola!

User error… always is. Damm users, if they’d keep their hands off of our software…it would work all the time LOL

For thoes who come along after know_devices now looks like this for each person registered with life360 via their app

life360_poncho:
hide_if_away: false
icon:
mac:
name: Devin
picture: /local/Devin.jpg
track: true

Thanks for the intervention and your patience!

-Aaron

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Thank you finity!
But… it doesn’t work in the quote tags… But I’ll certainly give it a try in later posts

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No problem,

It’s always been confusing for new people so that’s why I created that gif.

And it’s a whole lot faster than typing out a whole explanation on how to do it. I’ve heard somewhere that a picture is worth a thousand words so I figured I’d test that out. And I have to say it works! :smile:

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Sorry I missed that part. What do you mean by that?

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Disreguard… I was speaking to the formatting advice being offered…

Thanks again!