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Any self-hosted option for real time location sharing? (play.google.com)
submitted 3 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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[โ€“] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 72 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (10 children)

Dev of reitti here ๐Ÿ‘‹

Reitti allows sharing data like live location between users. If you use the owntracks app, you would even see all users, which share their location woth you, directly in the app.

Else you can see them in reitti directly with their latest known location.

https://www.dedicatedcode.com/projects/reitti/latest/

[โ€“] yestalgia@lemmy.world 12 points 3 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.

[โ€“] b41b76cf@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

I am using the OwnTracks app on Graphene OS via http and it's working well so far, but I only set it up very recently.

I installed with obtanium and it doesn't need any play services, Graphene's location service works fine.

I am using a different back end though, GeoPulse not Reitti. Still evaluating the different choices, I will probably try Reitti as well.

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