I stopped using Strava a year or two ago because I didn’t like some of the changes in the privacy policy. Recently, I was out cycling, and while riding, I thought about how much I enjoyed the aspects of Strava where I could compare my rides against previous years, or when I rode the same segments last week, or whatever. I thought about how it would be awesome to have a more privacy-focused way of tracking how much distance I was covering and data about my rides.
Home Assistant is already tracking my location privately, so what about a potential feature for the companion apps that could enable you to easily start and end periods of High Accuracy Mode tracking, and keep track of some key data points like total distance, time, type of activity, etc. about those periods between the start and end timestamps?.
I’m sure, given some time, the community could flesh out the requirements for such a feature in terms of what Home Assistant is already doing for us. Anybody else have thoughts about this? Is anybody else wary of third party apps that track your location, and their impacts on personal privacy?
It’s fully local and each exercise is recorded in a file in a standard format (on my phone it’s backuped automatically on my nextcloud).