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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

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[–] helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] thegreekgeek@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Oh this is cool! It reminds me of aeGis from CyanogenMod back in the day.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

How do you use Signal?

Edit: oh with notifications. Neat.