Location concepts not clear

[Edwin_D]

I used it too, and dropped it for the same reason. it is often late to the party, or just plain unknown. It threw off the more accurate locations.

[graLf]

@Rudd-O

I personally chose the VPN route to solve this problem for me, and I report my location to my home assistant service using the owntracks method, so that I don’t have to send my location to Google or Apple or anything. In this situation that we are having at home, because I’m not actually using the play store version of the app, this setup also solves another problem for me, which is to get notifications when I’m not home. As long as I’m on VPN, home assistant can send me notifications and they do not travel through the Google Cloud. Needless to say, I am always on VPN when I’m not at home. I have the wire guard app on the phone, which automatically knows to disconnect from VPN when I get home, and to connect when I leave home, based on my Wi-Fi. To be clear, it’s not that I am stingy and I don’t want to pay for Nabu Casa’s service, but rather that there are other services at home that I would like to access when away, which would not be possible just by paying the Nabu Casa subscription.

well, after this nice debate, I think I´ll give it a try to this solution, I´ll be back to report to you all.

thank you all

[Rudd-O]

The location provider that HA uses to locate the iPhone app talks to Apple servers, because Apple knows where you are.

(We have no Apple or Google devices at home. You may infer the reasons why.)