Quick Tip: Tracking users on the map without OwnTracks

Hi everyone,

I wanted to track all my users on the map. Without a native app, this is not so easy and as stated in the documentation here, you can solve this via OwnTracks. However, I don’t like this because I don’t want to have another app on my phone and those of my family.

My basic idea was: Presumably, it is possible to have location information for the users, otherwise OwnTracks could not bind it to the persons. So I thought, I can simply update the location information for persons. But there is no direct way to do this. @pierre-gilles it would actually be really cool if you could directly update the location information for persons in the form of fields/properties, and not only allow it via OwnTracks.

However, I have now found a somewhat elegant way around it. I built a scene that extracts the coordinates via the Apple Device Tracker integration (Thanks @prohand) and the location sharing, and then simply sends a webhook to Gladys Plus in the same data format as OwnTracks would send :slight_smile:

Works perfectly!