[OBSOLETE] Life360 - Refreshed Every Minute & All Places & More All API Data available for webCoRE Usage

[tmleafs]

UPDATE - November 2018

Now all useful information that Life360 provides is pulled every 5 minutes this information includes
PLEASE NOTE: The presence part of the app still runs on original code or manual refresh

• Address1 - In the UK only seems to provide places that you have added to Life360 - US might get more information
• Address2 - Again UK does nothing but may provide US users information
• PrevAddress1 - Previous address1
• PrevAddress2 - Previous address2
• Battery - Phone Battery Percentage
• Charging - Is Phone on Charge
• Last Checkin - Last time the phone updated the Life360 Servers
• Moving - Is the user moving
• Driving - Is the user driving
• Latitude - Latitude position
• Longitude - Longitude position
• Since - Time they arrive at current location
• SpeedMetric - Current Speed in Meters Per Second
• SpeedMiles - Current Speed in MPH
• SpeedKm - Current Speed KPH
• Wifi - Wifi turned on

TO ADD PLACES - That will appear in address1 - If you have Life360 plus you can add as many alert places you like but on the free account only two but you can name places and I believe you can have as many as you like

This has been available for sometime in the topic about Life360 not being reliable.
But recently @btrial added some more features and I feel more people should know about it

• distance from your chosen place (can be used in webCore),
• sleep / awake status (can be used in webCore)
• last location update date/time

Ideas and some code snippets taken from webCore presence sensor by @ady624 (so praise goes to him)

Install - Very Important
Even though the code is the same as the official Life360 you cant just install this code and expect it to work, SmartThings will just continue to use the official code. You will have to completely remove the Official App and Devices before you can install using this code & enable OAuth

GitHub - tmleafs/life360-smartthings-refresh: Adding a refresh function to...

Owner: tmleafs
Name: life360-smartthings-refresh
Branch: master

Now the idea is to use webCore to monitor the Life360 for inconsistencies and then fire the refresh if needed for example @sdbg posted this as a example

If you don’t have a another presence sensor to compare to you could fire the refresh every day at set times for example

[Michael_Deffendall]

One more to add to my ‘find time to check it out’ list.

[Michael_Deffendall]

And when I try to install it after adding the SmartApp via IDE, I get an unexpected error trying to add my Life360 users

Solved and thank you!:

@tmleafs

My guess is you haven’t published the life360 user DH or not enabled OAuth on the app

If not post some IDE logs

[shadowjig (John)]

Can you explain how Life360 is not reliable? I find that it’s extremely reliable and accurate. Wondering, as I’m looking to use Life360 to automate the Home/Away mode changes.

[Nezmo]

@shadowjig

Can you explain how Life360 is not reliable? I find that it’s extremely reliable and accurate.

I’m curious for the same reason. Never had a blip with it.

[tmleafs]

My guess is you haven’t published the life360 user DH or not enabled OAuth on the app
If not post some IDE logs

[tmleafs]

Just look at the mount of posts about life360 https://community.smartthings.com/search?q=life360

It was more a thing in mid 2016 when I originally made this. Some people no longer have the problem, even I no longer have but thats because we have better phones and 4G signal than we had in 2016, but it was also due to Life360 breaking the app too. Back in mid 2016 early 2017 once or twice a week life360 didn’t work correctly. This is the main thread at the time Life360 seems to send notifications properly, but presence status not updated? moaning about the problems of life360 at the time.

[Paul_James]

This is working nice for me. I made a small change and changed it from reporting Km to miles from home on the tile.

[tmleafs]

Can you send me what you have changed I could possibly make it so a user can change it the settings

[Michael_Deffendall]

And you would be correct. Didn’t realize it had a DH as well. Thank you!

[scottma61 (Matthew)]

I would like that ability too. You can change the SmartApp where is calculates the distance by dividing the result by 1.609344 to convert the Km to Miles. Or, you can do it in the DTH by dividing the result by the same 1.609344. Either way the DTH still needs to be updated as it is ‘hardcoded’ as ‘km from: home’ and I changed that to ‘mi from: home.’ Could you add in a user selectable option for Km or Miles and then make that conversion and text label change based on their selection?

Great work. Thanks.

[Michael_Deffendall]

Thank you for this! Using webCoRE, I was able to use the distance metric from a Life360 user and stored it to a global variable and then set it into a virtual temperature sensor. That in turn allowed me to add my new virtual temperature sensor to my ActionTiles Tablet.

[tmleafs]

@Paul_James @scottma61 @Michael_Deffendall

I have added a user switch for the distance display in miles or km

I have also added distanceKm & distanceMiles attribute theses are all ways updated doesn’t matter on the display switch

[scottma61 (Matthew)]

The actual miles was showing, but the text still showed “km from Home:”. I looked at the DTH code and altered it to this:

    if(units == "Kilometers" || units == null || units == "")
	    def status = sprintf("%.2f", homeDistance / 1000) + " km from: Home"
    else
	    def status = sprintf("%.2f", (homeDistance / 1000) / 1.609344) + " Miles from: Home"

    sendEvent( name: "status", value: status, isStateChange: true, displayed: false )

It works now. Can you take a look and see if this is the correct way to do it?

Thanks again.

[tmleafs]

That’s the way I originally had it and it should work but for me it isn’t

I get just get status with that code

[scottma61 (Matthew)]

My Error. I did not re-run the SmartApp to recreate the devices after I updated the code. When I reverted to your code and did that everything works as expected. Sorry for my oversight and thanks again for this.

[bobbles (Bob)]

Since the recent app update I’m getting a ? appear in the main tile.
Anyone else seeing this?

[tmleafs]

I’m getting the same are your on android, I feel this is a might be the app rather than my code as It cant just stop working. @btrial what you think?

Anyone on iOS wanna let me know if its working

[Nezmo]

iOS 2.14.0 released (1/30/18)

If iOS is crashing on 2.14.0, please check if you have an incorrect type set for a multiAttributeTile in a custom device handler. Here is an example of incorrect code tiles { multiAttributeTile(name:"contact", type: "contact", width: 3, height: 2, canChangeIcon: true){ tileAttribute ("device.contact", key: "PRIMARY_CONTROL") { attributeState "open", label: '${name}', icon: "st.contact.contact.open", backgroundColor: "#ffa81e" attributeState "closed", label: '${name}', icon: "st.contact.contact.closed", backgroundColor: "#79b821" } } Changing the ‘type’ from “contact” to “generic” should resolve the issue. We are also looking into fixing the app so it doesn’t crash with an incorrect type. On Android, this seems to manifest in a “?” tile.

[btrial (Bartek)]

I also see “?” on Android, instead of icons. It was working properly before.

As @Nezmo pointed, there is missing type:“generic”.
I have pushed an update to my repo and yours @tmleafs,
meantime you see on the screenshot attached, what and where to add it.