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Any self-hosted option for real time location sharing?

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Any self-hosted option for real time location sharing?

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…

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AmbiguousProps Jun 15

I use Home Assistant for this. It works very well and the data is all local. It’s probably a bit heavy if you don’t use the other parts of home assistant though.

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yestalgia Jun 15

Do you know if it works well with GrapheneOS?

Does it use http or MQTT?

I was using Traccar and that worked well until moving to GOS and then background updates wouldn’t work.

I tried owntrack and nextcloud but never got it to work.

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dan

Does it use http or MQTT?

Home Assistant uses HTTP for this. Realistically, you won’t see much difference between HTTP and MQTT for this use case.

MQTT is harder to secure than HTTP, and has some limitations (eg it normally only supports username and password auth - no SSO, no 2FA) so I’d avoid it for anything public-facing unless you have a specific reason to use it. Using it via a VPN is fine, but you’d still need to configure a separate MQTT username and password per user.