Location (Life360)

Support for Life360 app

Life360 is a location sharing application for tracking families.

Getting Started

• First, install and configure the Life360 mobile app on one or more devices (Android / iOS)

• Next, install the "Life360+" Hubitat app/driver and configure it

• Finally, make sure all of the Life360 devices which are created by the Life360+ driver are checked in MakerAPI

Dashboard Tile

• The dashboard tile shows the user's location on a static Google Map image

• clicking on the tile shows an embedded Google Map

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  • NOTE: any other Life360 or OwnTracks devices that you have will also be displayed on the map as well

Widget

• You can also create a homescreen widget out of any Life360 device

Google Maps API Key

• Google provides developers an API key to both create static maps as well as use embedded maps. There's a limit however to how many maps can be created every month - once that limit is reached the API will stop working for the rest of the month.

• Because of this, if you either notice the maps not working *or* would like to get your own API key just to use for you dashboard, I added a way to set it in the dashboard.

• long-click on any Life360 or Owntracks device and hit Edit

• Click on Map Options

• Click on Google Maps API Key and enter your custom maps API key

  • NOTE: this is for the static maps.. I'll add a way to do this for the embedded maps too in a future version

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Creating a Google Maps API Key

There's several steps involved but I found some guides:

How to get your Google Maps API key (Tutorial)setcompass.com

How to generate and set a Google Maps API keyYoast