Tracking an elderly relative

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Hi,

I have a 90 year old relative who I monitor at home with home assistant and various sensors, all works well and very reassuring it is :slight_smile:

He has a dorro 2040 phone paired with his hearing aids and he’s not really capable of using any other phone now (phone has mobile data enabled)

I don’t think the dorro has any way to share it’s broadband out via a bluetooth connected device

So now looking at him carrying additionally with him the smallest andoid device possible that has gps/sim card fucntionality, that can also take the companion app for tracking him on the HA maps screen

Can anyone recommend a device please, most now are just big screens?

Thanks

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Smart watch?

Or possibly a different Doro phone?
There is a few with massive icons on the screen.
Not sure if that means everything is massive or it’s just the icons.

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didn’t realise a smart watch could independently report realtime location data to ha (i assume with the right software) - time to do some research…

though i assume it would need some type of bluethooth connection to a phone to connect to the web over the bluetooth link

i’ll look if any dorro phone, has to be identical to the 2040 in button layout) has this functionality

thanks

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I don’t have a smart watch myself, but I know there is a home assistant app for it.
So you need to figure out if it works, I’m don’t know.
I believe the watches has their own sim card.

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At least with Wear OS (Android), it doesn’t. It’s been something people have asked for but it hasn’t been implemented yet with the HA app.

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thats a shame as i think there would be a lot of takers for it

the ha is already running on an underused proxmox server so im just going to go down the airtag route, shame as i normally avoid anything apple

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Thanks for tagging, glad you can work with my tutorial!