https://github.com/t0mer/locationsharing

A Docker container to retrieve coordinates from an google account that has been shared locations of other accounts and add it as a device tracker to Home Assistant. The container publishes the info using mqtt auto discovery without the need of special configuration on the Home Assistant side.
https://github.com/t0mer/locationsharing

docker docker-compose home-assistant home-automation location location-tracking mqtt python3

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A Docker container to retrieve coordinates from an google account that has been shared locations of other accounts and add it as a device tracker to Home Assistant. The container publishes the info using mqtt auto discovery without the need of special configuration on the Home Assistant side.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/t0mer/locationsharing
• Owner: t0mer
• License: mit
• Created: 2023-01-31T13:26:36.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-02-09T06:35:50.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-02T08:07:07.635Z (about 1 month ago)
• Topics: docker, docker-compose, home-assistant, home-automation, location, location-tracking, mqtt, python3
• Language: Python
• Homepage: https://hub.docker.com/r/techblog/locationsharing
• Size: 29.3 KB
• Stars: 2
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 3
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# locationsharing

A Docker container to retrieve coordinates from a google account that has been shared with locations of other accounts and add it as a device tracker to Home Assistant. The container publishes the info using mqtt auto discovery without the need for special configuration on the Home Assistant side.

## Install

Use the following docker-compose file for the container installation:

```yaml

version: "3.6"

services:

  locationsharing:

    image: techblog/locationsharing

    container_name: locationsharing

    restart: always

    environment:

      - EMAIL_ADDRESS= #Google account email

      - COOKIES_FILE_NAME= #Cookies file name (File name without path)

      - MQTT_HOST= #MQTT Host address

      - MQTT_PORT= #MQTT Port,Default is 1883

      - MQTT_USERNAME= #MQTT Username

      - MQTT_PASSWORD= #MQTT Password

      - UPDATE_INTERVAL=1 #In minutes

    volumes:

      - ./locationsharing/cookies:/app/cookies

```

### *cookies.txt* file

* You must sign out and manually sign into your Google account. Then browse to google.com/maps and extract from your "google.com" cookies and save it as cookies.txt

* Checkout [this chrome extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/get-cookiestxt/bgaddhkoddajcdgocldbbfleckgcbcid/related?hl=en) to help export such file very easily.

* Once cookies.txt is created, if the Google account is signed out, it will invalidate the cookies.

* Create the **./locationsharing/cookies** volume and place the cookies file inside it. 

* Next, set all the Environment variables and run docker-compose up -d to set up the container.

The container will run two scripts:

1. The location-sharing script that creates the device_tracker and updates the information.

2. The second script is responsible for refreshing the cookies and keeping is up to date.