I want to set up location sharing for my family/friends, but
- without having a closed source app having access to my location/sensors all the time
- be able to choose when I want to share
Any recommendations?
Edit for those who find this later: I ended up choosing Traccar suggested by @mbirth@lemmy.ml, but big thanks to everyone who brought some ideas to the table! I’ll leave my configs here.
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Didn’t see it mentioned here but check out Keep Alive.
Some I’ve heard mentioned include
- OwnTracks
- Home assistant with nabu casa
I haven’t explored either
I’ve been using OwnTracks for a while and it works really well.
My family has moved to https://www.zood.xyz/ and it has been pretty solid. https://github.com/zood/ is the github repo for it.
Not sure if this will help, but find my device on F-Droid is awesome. You can use generic SMS and send “fmd locate” or you can use third party apps such as signal. This makes it so it’ll only trigger whenever you receive that text message rather it running 24/7
It allows you to setup a trusted set of contacts who can then send you a text message “fmd locate”, and it’ll reply with an openstreetmaps link showing where you are. It’s not real time tho
And you can disable it simply by turning off your location
Apple Find My is goated
It is Apple exclusive and can’t be turned off
