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.

My Docker Compose file

My traccar.xml

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Some I’ve heard mentioned include

    • OwnTracks
    • Home assistant with nabu casa

    I haven’t explored either

  • mbirth@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    5 months ago

    After Google Latitude shut down, I went with OwnTracks logging into the light-weight php-owntracks-recorder.

    I’ve since migrated that to Traccar (normally used for car fleet management) on server-side and am still using OwnTracks to push the location updates from my iPhone.

  • helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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