Locative replacement?
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Hey all, so Locative https://blog.locative.io/bye-everyone-df01871fe949 is now gone as of mid-May. I was using this service for geo tracking in conjunction with the people plugin. What other location-aware services that can trigger a web hook are you all using with success?
I'm still using Locative, and will continue to do so for as long as it works on iOS. It still calls webhooks, and it's still the most light-weight and reliable thing available. The only difference now is that if you want to maintain a geofence entry/exit history, you have to do it yourself using something like node-red to provide the REST endpoints. Using homebridge-people to provide the endpoint still works just the same way it always did.
Weird. I am unable to get the hooks from the Locative app on my phone. The plugin still works and I can manually hit the correct URL in a browser but doesn't work from my phone. The syslog shows something was received but not a correct sensor. Same URL works though... more troubleshooting I guess-
If automation is a possibility, install homebridge-cmdswitch2, use the webhook urls as on and off commands, go to Home.app and tell it to turn the switch on when at home and off when away from home.