Does anyone know of any apps that track your location over time and map it so that you can see where you were at a given time? Preferably one that doesn’t upload any of this information to a/the cloud?
I’m a forgetful person and often wonder “what was I don’t last Tuessday?” or “When did I get home?” or “How long was I at X?”. Sometimes I also just want to contribute to things like OpenStreetMaps for less mapped areas (though I know this requires very frequent pings).
I used to use this feature using Google Location History but stopped because I decided I didn’t want to give them any more of my data than necessary.
If anyone plays Legend of Zelda BOTW or TOTK, I’m thinking of it as a sort of personal “Hero’s Path Mode”.
What do you do with the data in home assistant? By import, do you mean a near synchronous automatic import or something you have to do manually at the end of the day? Do you use it for geo fencing?
I just use it to “track” myself. You can use it for geofencing, yes. You just attach it to your user and it adds your location to you.
The main reason I use it over the Home Assistant app’s built-in sensors is that PhoneTrack is able to store your location data if you’re offline (out of cell network range, etc.) whereas the HA app just discards it.
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I’m running PhoneTrack which has a Nextcloud component. The data can be imported into HomeAssistant and also Prometheus.
What do you do with the data in home assistant? By import, do you mean a near synchronous automatic import or something you have to do manually at the end of the day? Do you use it for geo fencing?
By import I mean “automatic sync”, yes.
I just use it to “track” myself. You can use it for geofencing, yes. You just attach it to your user and it adds your location to you.
The main reason I use it over the Home Assistant app’s built-in sensors is that PhoneTrack is able to store your location data if you’re offline (out of cell network range, etc.) whereas the HA app just discards it.
Nice. Good to know, thanks