No comment - really no comment - +Kat R, thank you for your time and effort of re-posting - but it's gone again. This is so frustrating and people could think I delete comments while in my whole life I haven't deleted single one - good or bad. I apologise for this.

To add on this - I've opened support ticket with YT and hopefully something will be done. 4 comments on this video alone have vanished.

Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for the comment and Merry Christmas!!!!

Andrej, Thank you very much and also all the best in New Year!

That would be fun one to do!!! 😉 Thank you - and this one was inspired by you!!!

Thanks for the tip. I'm using UniFi integration to check if devices are live or not (battery powered devices). And since range is good, phones get picked up usually in time, but I'm not using that for presence detection, at least for now.

Thank you!!!! 😊

Noted! Coming soon! Have to think of good case for this one.

My kids all have already phone, so using that. I was looking at some of the options to embed in school bag previously, but decided against it. That's the biggest issue... The only other option is something like Tile or similar device where they piggy-back on other people phones (if they have the app).

That's great! Looks good and with resonable privacy policy!

That's good idea. I haven't bothered to look into that, but it should be excellent solution. Again, HA companion app should be easier to setup, but this can be a "fail safe" for when it fails to update. Should only need to test it with iPhone, to see if it also stops working after some time.

Not sure on that one. Its really a pain, BUT there is also currently a bug where new users that haven't set this up previously can't add it. Until this is fixed (Google changed something) it's impossible to export cookie.

@@BeardedTinker thank you for the answer🙏

Thanks for the comment! I haven't ignored this, just needed some time to think on best way to do it. For Car, you can use TracCar - it's service that integrates in Home Assistant (there is even a AdOn server I think for it in HA if you are more into privacy) and it works with ton of trackers - from expensive ones to cheap(er) Chinese. www.traccar.org/devices/ And as for the kids now this is fun part. Really couldn't find anything simple. Most things there are are smart watches that have SIM card with GPS tracking, such as kidssmartgpswatch.com/products/gps-kid-tracker-smart-wristwatch But integration here can also be problem... You can also try using Tile, but for it to get position, someone in vicinity of the kid has to have app installed, so it depends on how many people around you use Tile. For my area we have around 100-120 people active with it so, it can, but doesn't have to be accurate.

@@BeardedTinker Thanks again :) I will test some solutions that you propose (maybe without that one for kids ;)

Yes, HA companion app is great if properly configured - both in App and on Phone. I have on 3 Android phones and one iPhone. With Android I don't have any problem. App needs to be enabled to run in background, have access to location all the time, use high-precision setting for location, and of course have Internet connection enabled.

But you don't have to? For that specific case, where you don't want to open up ports or have access from Internet, you can get Nabu Casa.

I have donated to HA in the past, I am not into subscription model yet ..

@@Felipe-ij2lu than there is VPN... But you'll have to open port for that 😂 Also, there is Cloudflare that you can use to hide your public IP

@@BeardedTinker I have vpn. The issue is that you have to turn it on and off every time you leave the house, so not practical. Only solution for now is a HomeKit automation with input Boolean. But just for home/not home usages, not for zones and location

If you have integration from your router, you can create an automation to turn Remote Access (for Nebu Casa) on or off based on whether your phone is on the network or off.

Will have to test it but I don't think there is. App should constantly update on the location it it's running in the background. And if not, Home Assistant also can't request any data.

BTW check this here - documentation on how to do it companion.home-assistant.io/docs/notifications/notification-commands?_highlight=location#request-location-updates

@@BeardedTinker That's something to try. Thank you!

Pozdrav Karlo - da, da - iz ZG sam :) Hvala puno!!!!

No, I haven't but have seen example on the net...There are also few threads in Home Assistant community forum on that one - for example this one: community.home-assistant.io/t/grafana-location-map-split-lat-lon-string-from-geocoded-location/194823

Yes, of course. I don't do it with alarm, but with my heating, but it's more or less same thing.

How do I add my smarttag2 to home assistance?

For what part exactly? Each tracker could be separate video - if you have suggestion on what to record, I'll do it. ;)

@@BeardedTinker Thaks for the video. I want to ask for a video about HA configuration on internal trackers. I'm a beginner in HA. I'll be very glad if you do that.

Sorry to say, but no. I'm still fighting with that one and only device. Probably will add additional tracker device to keychain or something similar.

@@BeardedTinker Please let me know if you solved it :-) I have quite some more ideas for automation based on people being home or not.

That's HACS mini-graph-card and you can have multiple entities on one graph.

@@BeardedTinkerthanks and yeah just found out last night after my comment although still struggling learning about using it.

It's using Open Street maps for maps, but it's not locally installed.

@@BeardedTinker nice one

He was loosing it constantly... :D

@@BeardedTinker 😂

That's awesome! Than you probably are using something better that you can share with us - and that's the point of community!