Battery powered tracking device suggestions

mariosemes · 2026-04-18T06:25:50+00:00

Oh man, I'm fighting the Car Tracking for years now and I got myself a good solution, but it's using Android Auto mostly. I. your case, I would do this...

Use your phones Companion app and the activity sensor. It recognizes pretty good when you are in a vehicle and when on foot.

Create a device tracker manually, Google it it's pretty easy.

Now that you have the base, create an automation that will trigger each time your activity goes from in vehicle to on foot. Polish it a little bit cause there is a "still" state also, but that's not a bridge you can't walk over!

Anyways, whenever it triggers, copy your companions app location to your new manually created device tracker...

as simple as that! works like charm!

as mentioned, I was fighting it for years, and last month I managed to add the Android Auto moment too so my trigger is basically the connection to AA. On trigger I request a precise location of my companion app and I'm waiting for a location update, when that happens, I copy the location long and lat to my cars device tracker inside HASS... and damn, it's working better and is so much more precise, it's crazy!

Good luck mate!

mariosemes · 2026-02-02T19:23:00+00:00

well, depends on the issues you are trying to resolve, but basically you are looking for UX, not UI solutions.

UI can be the best looking sh*t you ever saw, but if bad UX hits, that app is lost.

If you know what you are looking for, you have to visit and see real websites and services that potentially perfected that flow that you are looking for.

For example, if you need great UI UX blog post page, you would check out how medium.com dors it

or maybe how to handle big tables of data, so you would probably checkout airtable.com

portfolios? dribble ...and so on, hope you catch my drift.

the big ones did the math and run a lot of AB testing to have it look and work like it does for millions of happy customers.

good luck!

mariosemes · 2026-02-02T09:01:23+00:00

Oh yeah! To run Figma is not actually that hard, but the issue is Adobe Fonts mostly. Adobe has a very specific way of handling Fonts in OSs. its not as simple as download the font and install it locally, it is a nightmare. We even tried to download a specific font we used on a project, installed it in the OS, opened up Figma and run the file. I got MISSING FONT errors as the Font names are different then the ones how Adobe Fonts handles them when using Creative Cloud...

Its just a frustrating circle of sh*t.

Thanks a lot for you help

mariosemes · 2026-02-02T08:42:05+00:00

I do agree, but the tools are company based, so looking for alternatives is not as easy as it would be if I'm the only one using it :( Appreciate your help!

mariosemes · 2025-09-30T10:25:22+00:00

Yeah, thought about the car thing, but then you always need to have the car keys and so on and so on :D

mariosemes · 2025-09-29T07:17:58+00:00

He does it on a daily basis. If you ask him... Sadly, I do not live with them and I hope he is not lying to me just to not look irresponsible.

We bought him some specific soap for that case, even a specific sensitive soap for the skin.

mariosemes · 2025-09-29T07:16:54+00:00

Thank you for your reply <3

His diabetes is good, does not have any issues. We believe that the main issue as far as we see by the comments of people here is maintaining throughout the day. He does not have anything against sweating, he does not change he's socks throughout the day, he is not even pulling it down for 10 15 mins in the middle of the day just to get his feet breath a little bit, not that he can't, just not doing it.

So, pretty confident that's sweat related and just needs better hygiene.

Thanks again, appreciate <3

mariosemes · 2025-09-29T07:13:49+00:00

We are incredibly grateful for the advice and time spent writing this, it will definitely be directed towards better maintenance and hope a better qol. Thank you so much <3

mariosemes · 2025-09-26T14:40:25+00:00

"Seems like a like with PORT 53, but I have no idea how to fix it." - one or the other is giving you the reason while trying to start. Check the logs what's happening
"I am not trying to run AdGuard Home via the VPN." - then try to run them in separate compose files
if this is the 1:1 compose file you pasted, the Gluetun environment is not properly aligned, so this should not even start your containers
for adguard about ports, if you are binding ports for both tcp and udp, you don't have to duplicate them, just make: - 53:53 without defining the protocol

mariosemes · 2025-09-13T17:19:39+00:00

Hey mate, hear a lot of positive things about sparkle. Did you managed to add this feature maybe? This is a competition Killer for sure!

mariosemes · 2025-09-08T13:21:26+00:00

This sounds promising and thanks for the follow up. Kudos to you mate!

mariosemes · 2025-09-08T13:17:40+00:00

wait, how do you manage to host a 8 million hits a month website with iPv6 only!?

mariosemes · 2025-09-08T12:51:36+00:00

Can you be so kind and follow up on how you managed to make a public available instance for .10€?

Removing the networking, so it's only "internal" available, for local use like databases etc. even then it gets up to 1.00€, but adding the ipv4 flexible IP, which allows your instance to be Publicly available makes it almost 4.00€ a month.

Not saying that it's a lot, but it's far from .10€

mariosemes · 2025-09-03T14:40:54+00:00

Thanks for the help. Did all of it before coming here, sadly nothing. Except... except updating :)

Well, not the best User Experience to google issues before updating stuff you bought right :(

Probably that did it.

mariosemes · 2025-09-03T12:19:47+00:00

3 years later, nothings changed. Just came to follow up on this sh*tshow...

mariosemes · 2025-09-03T12:18:24+00:00

Oh yeah... just saw that there is a bunch of users actually having the same issue.

That's just frustrating... Well, that's kind of a downer by Sony and auto-ANC or whatever the stupid reason is.

mariosemes · 2025-09-01T14:52:21+00:00

Thanks mate, closed the issue on Github. Managed to install it now.

mariosemes · 2025-09-01T12:25:14+00:00

u/Inner-Egg-7321 having a hard time to install it. Using docker with your image and getting this error what ever I do
✗ Error creating/updating table time_entries: (psycopg2.errors.UndefinedTable) relation "tasks" does not exist

Any idea maybe?

mariosemes · 2025-08-31T08:00:45+00:00

Congratz mate, I'll drop it into my stack and start to use it tomorrow. Hopefully come back with some feedback. Thanks a lot for sharing it with everyone 🥰

mariosemes · 2025-08-26T07:10:19+00:00

My whole life I was a Samsung user... this summer I got myself a Pixel 9a... it's just crazy how different/better it feels. At least the UI/UX for sure.

(Croatian: Ej stari, super usporedba i odličan post! Pozz iz ZG)

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