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I stumbled onto Traccar via Home Assistant, which offers Traccar as a plugin. Ultimately I wanted a boolean sensor for whether I'm at home or not, and Traccar (
by spacemanmatt 8y ago
I stumbled onto Traccar via Home Assistant, which offers Traccar as a plugin. Ultimately I wanted a boolean sensor for whether I'm at home or not, and Traccar (as installed by the HA plugin) provided that to HA without configuration.
- vanous 8y agoThank you for the tip! Hass user here too. I was reluctant to use GPS based detection but traccar seems like good private solution. I still have to check whether I must spin my own instance or if the traccar server is running automatically on (my) Hass server.
- spacemanmatt 8y agoI haven't inspected deeply but all pointers indicate Hassio (I'm running it all on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+) installes Traccar locally.
- spacemanmatt 8y agoI'm also looking into client-side geofencing, e.g. an app that reports an event to HA when a fence is crossed, compare to Traccar collecting all the locations and inferring the crossings. My goal is tiered presence detection.
- tibu 8y agoHow about Owntracks. It can do geofencing
- NicoJuicy 8y agoIsn't owntracks an option? Self-hosted and has regions. It comes in as Json and just parts the regions array
- NicoJuicy 8y agoParse...
- spacemanmatt 8y agoI did not see Owntracks in the plugin repository. Traccar was one click to install.
- NicoJuicy 8y agoOwntracks is a message on mqtt, it would suprise me if there was no support for mqtt.
- spacemanmatt 8y agoIt does work with MQTT. What it doesn't do is install Owntracks as a HA plugin.