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 @[email protected], 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

      • @ChapulinColoradoEnglish
        1•3 months ago

        It’s shit for automating things and especially useless outside the Apple ecosystem, but it does offer the option to turn off sharing.

        Apple ID -> Find My -> Share My Location

        Since it’s closed source it’s possible they still capture the location and I would t trust it, but in practice anyone that you’ve allowed to see your location (for an hour, day, while on-route) gets a “location unknown” on their app of the toggle is off.

    • @[email protected]OPEnglish
      2•3 months ago

      for two reasons, I can’t use this.

      1. Android. Me, my family. Our past phones were, our current phones are, and future phones will be Android phones.
      2. I’m looking for whatever it may be to be OSS and self-hostable (if the community name didn’t give that implication away)
      • @Custodian1623English
        1•3 months ago

        findmydevice on fdroid. you can use encrypted pings to your server at set intervals to track each device