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This is an app to save location history locally. I'd like to connect it with HomeAssistant, which it supports, but the documentation is pretty sparse. Do I need ro set up HA to receive the info? What endpoint do I enter into the Colota app?

I feel like this should be more obvious, I really have no idea

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[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm back. So, Colata is just a better OwnTracks. It's a client, compatible with almost every selfhosted location server like HA, Dawarich, etc.

I followed the documentation (all on my phone) and it's pretty straight forward. I did what it said and it worked. There's nothing more to it.

Whenever I get some free time I'll install and try Colota with Dawarich or something else that let's me embed it inside HA through an integration with widgets.

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Thanks for looking into it. What URL did you enter in the server endpoint? Is it just the HA domain? Or is it another link that I have to get from HA? I'm sorry if this is a dumb question but I genuinely don't know.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 1 points 59 minutes ago

The documentation explains it perfectly. When you add the OwnTracks integration in HA, it gives you the url you have to use in the OwnTracks client which in this case is Colota.

In my case it was the Nabu Casa URL, since I pay for their cloud service.