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Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 20/9/2024 (self.newzealand)
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Last weeks thread here

Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!

This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.

It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:

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[–] Dave 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Haha I fought with Home Assistant on the home/not home thing too. It's really food now, though. I think the issue is HA uses the google significant motion update, so it doesn't get realtime location data but instead updates on some black box google schedule. They have a high accuracy mode but it still doesn't seem to poll regularly. It's unclear to me exactly what changes.

On my phone I also use PhoneTrack synced to Nextcloud for location tracking, and that updates every minute. I think this seems to allow HA to get more frequent updates, as it works great for me now. Still a massive problem on my wife's phone, who has no need for PhoneTrack. Detecting WiFi network is my next plan for her, which you can do in HA as well.

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah I was using HA to figure out presence from Unifi and that was very flakey as well. Have a look at Unpoller though, its a decent project and can push metrics to influxdb or prometheus.

[–] Dave 1 points 1 month ago

Will do, thanks!