Alternative to Life360? (discuss.tchncs.de)

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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

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

It is Apple exclusive and can't be turned off

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days 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.

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