But how do I track someone with the companion app without allowing them to login?
You donât. You track them with something else
Ah⌠well, thatâs not convenient. I know there are other apps and solutions, but the sane thing here would make HA able to deal with this situation.
Its not inconvenience tiger, its security 101, TLDR this canât happen through the app the way you want.
how would you make the companion login and send the data to the right HA instance without being configured - which means an endpoint⌠And before anyone says accept anonymous from a well-known URL at that endpoint, Iâm not letting my HA instance accept random incoming messages from unknowns on the Interwebs are you? (The correct answer is no - else you learn about buffer overflow and DDOS attacks quickly)
The answer is a login. Weâre back to sq. 1
If you use something like a life360 or a network integration to trap a ping youâre capturing info from trackers without login - back to the dog tracker scenario.
All fine and good opinions.
Personally, Iâm not looking for an âanonymousâ thing, it should be an account, I just want the ability to lock down an account in HA so that the user can login, but literally nothing else. Call it âkiddy accountâ or whatever.
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Then you are looking for Role Based Access Control. (RBAC)
-and so am I⌠
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+1 on this feature
Hi everyone, I solved it like this, installed HA on my sonâs phone, created an account, logged in, and removed the user from the visibility tab of the various main boards. and hid everything from the sidebar, for now it should work, hoping that he doesnât figure out how to restore visibility in the bar.