I just discovered this app. I know there are folks out there who think location tracking is the opposite of privacy but it’s a nice security tool to keep track of your loved ones. I found this one thats fully end to end encrypted. I am currently in the works to migrate my family of 10 over. (This includes my grandparents who are less than tech savvy)
Just thought I would share in the event there was a father like me looking for a similar tool that doesn’t sell your location data or breach your data.
This app would of been great help to me a couple of years ago!
I’ll wait for this personally:
“In the future, we plan to release a version of Paralino for Android that is free of Google services and available as a direct download.”
The dev also explains the current status of the app here in the comments:
https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/paralino-location-sharing-service/23658/7
Woah, this is the first I had heard of Paralino. I had tried Zood and Grid, but this app seems way more polished.
Not directly intended for this, but I use a self-hosted Home Assistant server for this. My wife and I both use it for home automations, and the phone app can report its location back. We can see where each other is on the map, as well as a 24 hour (configurable) location history.
delta chat supports location sharing https://delta.chat/en/help#how-can-i-share-my-location-with-my-chat-partners
all hell will break loose when a malicious actor gains access to your 12345 encrypted app
I’ve used Grid (https://mygrid.app/) a while ago, since it’s open source, cross-platform, selfhostable (although I did not experiment with that) and E2EE. However, I found it to be a bit buggy, and the location did not always update. Also, the power consumption was pretty high. But, I see that it’s been updated some, since I last used it, so it might have solved some of these issues🤞
Is the server self-hostable with all features, or planned in the future?
Either way, really cool. I’d be interested in setting it up at some point.
Home Assistant does have location tracking feature where the phone app reports the location.
Nice, wasn’t aware of it. Not sure I need it but out of curiosity, any reference on how to set that up?
Thanks and my apologies for not being clear enough but I’ve been running HomeAssistant for years now, so that part is covered, I mean specifically location tracking.
I imagine it’s in https://companion.home-assistant.io/docs/core/location/ but checking. Unfortunately this feature specifically does not seem supported in the Web client, which is what I tend to prefer. For this specific situation I might reconsider. Are you using it and if so how?
Aah gotcha. I don’t remember exactly. I was using HA a year ago for about a month just to test around, but my home doesn’t have any smart devices so I got rid of it.
But as far as I remember, it was something in the HA settings itself (probably in the admin account or in the map). Just give location access to HA mobile app and it should work perfectly.
No worries thanks the clarification.
FWIW your house does not need smart devices, you can add them yourself as easily as adding a light bulb and a ZigBee dongle on your RPi or even desktop (but nicer if it’s always on IMHO).
You screw the light bulb in and if you leave the house one day for another one, you just unscrew it. Sure you can do more, e.g. replacing light switches, etc but you can also add plugs the same way.
I’m not trying to say anybody “needs” that, only highlighting that it’s not a heavy thing to setup and remove.
I’ve tried owntracks and traccar and I’m not really a fan of either so I’d love to try this once it’s open sourced.
Traccar was they best solution I’ve going so far. Have you found others?
No, Traccar seemed like the better of the two, but I don’t like that you can’t use the site without webGL.
Great. How does everyone enjoy practically enslaving your family members? I would understand using this when traveling alone trough unsafe location, but not for 24/7 tracking.
