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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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[–] martijndevrieze@europe.pub 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I have been using Hauk for ages. Not the most advanced or modern, but works like a charm! https://github.com/bilde2910/Hauk

[–] yestalgia@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

No idea what it uses but I used on GrapheneOS without issues.

[–] yestalgia@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Really appreciate your feedback. I'll try it! Never heard of it before.

[–] martijndevrieze@europe.pub 1 points 1 week ago

Been using it for years on grapheneos. Runs afaik via https only, super lightweight clientside