Home Assistant GMAPS

THIS IS NOW DEPRECATED AS IT HAS BEEN INTEGRATED INTO HOME ASSISTANT AS OF 0.97

The Home Assistant Google Maps Device Tracker, updated to use LocationSharingLib 4.0.1 This is a mostly drop-in replacement for the google_maps component, using the newer 4.0.1 Location Sharing Lib from @costasf. The biggest change is that you now have to fetch the cookie yourself and put it into your configuration directory. To get the cookie, see https://github.com/costastf/mapscookiegettercli.

Installation

1. Copy the gmaps folder to the custom_components folder in your Home Assistant configuration directory:

/home/homeassistant/
├── .homeassistant
│   ├── custom_components
│   │   └── gmaps

2. Add the following code in your configuration.yaml file, or modify your google_maps configuration:

device_tracker:
  - platform: gmaps
    username: YOUR_USERNAME

(The password is no longer used since you authenticate on your own when creating the cookie.)

3. Get the cookie using the mapscookiegetter. It will create a file named location_sharing.cookies which needs to be renamed and moved to your configuration directory. You might also be able to use the cookies.txt Chrome extenstion, but I have not tried it.

4. Rename the file using a slugified version of the username (email address) in the configuration. For example, if the username is example@gmail.com:

.google_maps_location_sharing.cookies.example_gmail_com

If you have been using the google_maps component, you already have a file by this name and you can just copy the new cookie over it.

Configuration

key	required	type	usage
platform	true	string	'gmaps'
username	true	string	The email address for the Google account that has access to your shared location.
max_gps_accuracy	false	float	filter false GPS reports. Defaults to 100km
scan_interval	false	float	The minimum number of seconds between queries. Defaults to 60 seconds

The reason for the new scan_interval configuration variable is that checking every 30 seconds seemed to be irritating Google's servers which would then start rejecting my queries.

Resources

mapscookiegettercli

locationsharinglib

HASS google_maps component