Location (Life360)
Support for Life360 app
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Support for Life360 app
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is a location sharing application for tracking families.
First, install and configure the Life360 mobile app on one or more devices ( / )
Next, install the "" Hubitat app/driver and configure it
Finally, make sure all of the Life360 devices which are created by the Life360+ driver are checked in
The dashboard tile shows the user's location on a static Google Map image
clicking on the tile shows an embedded Google Map
NOTE: any other Life360 or OwnTracks devices that you have will also be displayed on the map as well
You can also create a homescreen widget out of any Life360 device
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
There's several steps involved but I found some guides:
