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Any self-hosted option for real time location sharing? (play.google.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by schwim@piefed.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi there, everyone.

For various reasons, our family makes use of Life360. I'm wanting to move to either a linux or completely degoogled phone(ATM, I'm on Graphene but utilize the Play store for Life360 and a few other apps) but can't afford not to have the ability for a group of 4 phones to share their locations with each other all the time, not just to send a pin at certain times. I ONLY need the real time sharing to other devices in the group, I don't need anything else that Life360 offers.

It can't be hard to use as one of the phones we need it on is owned by an 80yo with cognitive/memory issues. This is where Life360 shines, we're able to find him without him ever needing to do anything on his phone.

Is there an option for this out there for self hosting? I could even handle not self-hosted but multi-OS and non-Play connected. I do have a couple VPS I could run backend software on, if needed.

Thanks for your time!

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[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I want to say I enabled it, but I'll have to check again.

Does increasing the poll rate affect the battery usage much?

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I think it could drain battery depending on what settings you tweak. However, I don't have terrible battery drain. Here's all of my settings that could be related:

With those settings, I get pretty frequent updates to my location. I do wonder about the call out that the update interval for locations is separate from others, I wonder if that applies?

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So we took a look trying to figure out why her phone wasn't giving HA a consistent location... She likes to turn off the camera/mic/location killswitches 😂

Quick fix haha, but at least we know that Graphene is doing the thing that it's known to do!

[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

Haha, glad you figured it out!

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Interesting. Thanks for the screenshots, I'll have my wife check those settings.