Python Plugin: Life 360 Presence Detection (deprecated)

[febalci]

UPDATE: 20.02.2024

!!!DEPRECATED!!!

Use the plugin GPSLogger as an alternative https://www.domoticz.com/forum/viewtopi ... 65&t=42045

UPDATE: V2.3.1 - 22.02.2019
Fix: Error in Tomtom Api response
New Feature: Added a locations.txt file to name your frequent use locations according to the lat,lon and radius.

Hi All,

As i have been using Life360 geofence presence detection for some time; i find it pretty stable. For those of you don't know about Life360; it is a smartphone application to follow the whereabouts about your friends, family, kids etc. It has its own notification system, and whenever a family members goes home or work etc. it can notify you from your smartphone without any delay. You can also see on map about where your circle members are or have been at a given time.



The API of Life360 is not open, but with the help of other codes i found on the web, you can get simple jsons.

So, the steps are as follows:
1. Install Life360 on your smartphone (Together with the family members)
2. Create a Circle in Life360 and add your family members to this circle, and make sure this circle is the very first circle in the list (Everyone in the circle can see where you are from now on!...)
3. Mark your Domoticz installation site as 'Home' (This is important since the plugin presence depends on if you are iin the geofence of marked location 'Home')
4. Donwload the plugin below and copy plugin.py and life360.py to 'Life360' folder in your plugins folder.
5. Restart Domoticz
6. Select 'Life 360 Presence' in your plugins list and fill in Life360 username and password, as well as 'Poll Period'. Make sure the poll period is not lower than 60 secs.
7. For each member you have 3 devices: Presence, Location and Smartphone battery percentage.
8. In order to get Locations, you have to name special places in Life360, like work, school etc.

And that's it, hope you will like it. Please do not hesitate to ask your questions or problems here...
Life 360 Plugin: https://github.com/febalci/DomoticzLife360

[febalci]

Handled the "Error: hardware thread seems to have ended unexpectedly" messages thanks to @Dnpwwo. Poll period is now in minutes instead of seconds and the minimum poll period is 1 min. Now planning to add reverse geocoding from Google maps so that the Location device will show current address instead of Life360 predefined locations.

[msvds]

Thanks for the work on this, it works really great. I use Life360 for some years now and with your plugin it is very easy to get it working in Domoticz. Great job! So far the best presence detection I've tested.

[EdwinK]

When i installed the plugin and restarted Domoticz, I couldn't connect to domoticz anymore, just had to remove the plugin

[Derik]

can i use the free version of 360?
And is ther perhaps a option to use the mapspage in a personal Domoticz page??
So whe can see where the Kids are?

And a great Plugin dear!!!

Cannot test because i have a lot work @ home
Only when i have time...

[febalci]

When i installed the plugin and restarted Domoticz, I couldn't connect to domoticz anymore, just had to remove the plugin

I believe you copied both files life360.py and plugin.py to plugins/life360. Maybe you can send me the Domoticz Logfile after a failed domoticz start? Do you have any other installed-working python plugins?

[febalci]

can i use the free version of 360?
And is ther perhaps a option to use the mapspage in a personal Domoticz page??
So whe can see where the Kids are?

And a great Plugin dear!!!

Cannot test because i have a lot work @ home
Only when i have time...

Dear Derik, i also use the free version of life360, so basically Yes, you can...
About the mapspage, my first target is to fix location device, so that it can show not only the saved places of lifee360, but also the reverse geocoding for current addresses (By using google maps or foursquare). For the custom map page, actually it's a great idea. I will try my best.

[febalci]

I got the following:

2017-11-21 22:53:50.833 Error: (Life360) failed to load 'plugin.py', Python Path used was ':/usr/lib/python35.zip:/usr/lib/python3.5:/usr/lib/python3.5/plat-arm-linux-gnueabihf:/usr/lib/python3.5/lib-dynload'.

Same happend with Buienrader plugin from G3rard.

Edwin, do you have something like this error in the beginning of your logfile?

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PluginSystem: Failed dynamic library load, install the latest libpython3.x library that is available for your platform.

If you already have any working python plugin at the moment, than it's a fault on my code side, otherwise there's something wrong on your python or domoticz installation. If you also have a problem with the Buienradar, maybe it is possible that you do not have python plugins enabled on you Domoticz Beta? And also i believe you already have life360 account and set your username etc. Also, in the error of your Python path, there's no "/domoticz/var/plugins/life360" folder, that sounds like plugin support in your installation is flawed?

[febalci]

Added new icons for presence and reverse geocoding to reflect the current address of a member if the location is not marked down in Life360. So you can also check the log of the Location device

[EdwinK]

Edwin, do you have something like this error in the beginning of your logfile?

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PluginSystem: Failed dynamic library load, install the latest libpython3.x library that is available for your platform.

If you already have any working python plugin at the moment, than it's a fault on my code side, otherwise there's something wrong on your python or domoticz installation. If you also have a problem with the Buienradar, maybe it is possible that you do not have python plugins enabled on you Domoticz Beta? And also i believe you already have life360 account and set your username etc. Also, in the error of your Python path, there's no "/domoticz/var/plugins/life360" folder, that sounds like plugin support in your installation is flawed?

I can't check it at the moment. The second I activate one of the mentioned scripts, Domoticz stops working and will not continue before removing the plugins again.

[EdwinK]

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2017-11-23 18:05:20.211 PluginSystem: Started, Python version '3.5.3'.
2017-11-23 18:05:22.621 Python EventSystem: Initalizing event module.

[EdwinK]

Giving up for now.

Error message AFTER activating python scripts

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[GCB2016]

Hi Febalci,

I have a circle called Family with my wife. I just installed the plugin and can see the different 'devices'. However there is a couple of weird things:

• I can not see my wife's Presence (but I do see her battery & location) There is no Presence under Switches for her (however mine is there)

• The battery percentages are not working. Mine says 0%, but it is e.g. 10%

I also attached a screenshot. Any idea what's wrong?

Thanks a lot!

[febalci]

Hi Febalci,

I have a circle called Family with my wife. I just installed the plugin and can see the different 'devices'. However there is a couple of weird things:

• I can not see my wife's Presence (but I do see her battery & location) There is no Presence under Switches for her (however mine is there)

• The battery percentages are not working. Mine says 0%, but it is e.g. 10%

I also attached a screenshot. Any idea what's wrong?

Thanks a lot!

Hi GCB,
First of all are you using Version 1.0.3? You can check it from the plugin.py's first line:

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<plugin key="Life360" name="Life 360 Presence" author="febalci" version="1.0.3">

If it is an older version, you should download the new one, delete the old one from Domoticz/Setup/Hardware, restart Domoticz, and add the plugin from Hardware page again.

If it is the latest version, please delete the plugin from Domoticz/Setup/Hardware again, While adding please select "True" for "Debug" and let it run for about 4-5 minutes. Then please sned me the Domoticz.log file so i can see what's wrong and correct it. In my case everything works fine.

[GCB2016]

Thanks for your reply,

I downloaded it yesterday from your Git and I checked: it is 1.0.3 for sure.

I deleted the hardware and re-added it again with debug on TRUE. I am at work and unable to SSH the RaspberryPi remotely but I copied some text from the Domoticz Log (I can reach Domoticz remotely). Also I have hidden some info from the log. I am sorry for the Word-doc, for some reason I am can't upload a plain text file.

What I find strange is when it comes to Marcella Battery is just says:

• 2017-11-29 09:35:01.207 (Life360) Update 88:'88' (Life360 - Marcella Battery)

But for my device it says:

• 2017-11-29 09:35:01.187 (Life360 - Carlo Battery) Updating device from 94:'94' to have values 1:'On'.

• 2017-11-29 09:35:01.197 (Life360) Update 1:'On' (Life360 - Carlo Battery)

Is this helpful?

[febalci]

OK, think i got the problem, will inform you.

[febalci]

I downloaded it yesterday from your Git and I checked: it is 1.0.3 for sure.

A very stupid mathematical error, calculated according to my family count . Corrected on 1.0.4 and already on github. Could you please use the new 1.0.4 plugin.py? And yeah, you have to remove and add again from the Setup/Hardware. And could you please inform me if this works?

[GCB2016]

Haha no problem, will let you know tonight when I am back home. Thanks!

[GCB2016]

Hi Febalci, I just checked everything and it seems to be working properly with 1.0.4! Thanks a lot for your quick response.

[febalci]

Glad that it is sorted out Carlo, the other solution was to have a baby so to make your family 3 person, why the hell i tought every family is of 3?