Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
Live phone location
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Hi guys,
Noob noob noob here. So I have took the amazing plunge in building a family dashboard using this software and it is amazing… Both my kids are just going highschool and are allowed to walk, i am hoping for a module or guidance to something that can show a live map on my screen…!
The only thing i am missing is location tracker just for my kids phones… I am hoping for guidance on using the tracking from either life360, Google family link, Google maps, WhatsApp location… Anything really just so i can see the general whereabouts…
I’ve spent hours but can’t seem to find anything… I would be very grateful…
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AirTag when you are using iPhone / Apple ecosystem.
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@daryl_thorpe
https://github.com/eouia/MMM-Whereis
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Try MMM-GoogleMaps-Tracking. If you can pull the coordinates from their phones (for Apple’s iCloud Find My, there’s a python module to grab data…I’d assume you can get it off Android phones too), you can post the coordinates to the map.
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I use OwnTracks to track location and feed geofencing information to the Weasley Clock. OwnTracks is an open source mapping app for your phone so you aren’t dependent upon the Google/Apple sized corporations.
It should not be difficult to build a module that displays raw location from OwnTracks.
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B bugsounet referenced this topic on Mar 31, 2024, 10:24 AM
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@bhepler I used owntracks for a while, but I found it far less reliable than Apple’s Find My. This was especially true on other family members’ phones, where I can’t make sure the app is constantly running in the background. Has the reliability improved?
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@dathbe - Not really, no. It’s still frustratingly slow to recognize when you’re inside a geofence. If you reboot your phone, you have to open the app to authorize the location data. Once it has been opened, you can close it and it will reliably run in the background.
I need to play with the Google location sharing and Apple’s equivalent and see if I can get that to integrate. Some day.
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I want to involve myself in this thread and want to use a phone location tracker for my family. I have 8 members in total in my family. I want to track them all using a single app. Is there anything for free?
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It’s amazing to update you again here. I found something in the meantime that I want to share. Though I had been searching something for free this time. I read a nice article a while ago. This one has shown how to find the location of the person you are tracking, but also track the history of all the places they’ve been in. If you want to visit and read this article click here for more details.
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@CharlesBarden
That is some expensive free stuff. 48 bucks a month. Not something this community wants to know about I would guess. Spy ware is not always clean it usually has some kind of virus or key logger to steal your information for the person providing the spyware.
