Mobile App: report location should only allow location + battery

[balloob]

The current report location is just a wrapper around device_tracker.see. We should only allow sending in gps, gps_accuracy and battery. All other data should be filled in on the server side with details from the registration.

See API docs for how it should be: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/en/app_integration_sending_data.html#update-device-location

[robbiet480]

At a minimum the iOS app would also need to be able to still send source_type, location_name and consider_home which are all accepted values in the standard device_tracker.see payload.

There are a number of location related attributes that the iOS app sends which users have found valuable that are outside of the standard device_tracker.see payload. These include:

• speed
• altitude
• course
• trigger (e.g. Geographic Region Entered/Exited, iBeacon Region Entered/Exited, Manual, Significant Location Update, Background Fetch, Push Notification and a few other possible values)
• floor

Do you have any thoughts on allowing these to still be sent? If I had to choose only one to keep, it would be trigger.

Everything else we currently send as part of device_tracker.see can be split into sensors.

[robbiet480]

Okay, so thinking more about those extra attributes, I'll leave them out for now and expose them all via sensors (#21782) instead.

Limited schema work at robbiet480@2b0658a

[robbiet480]

@balloob So when we call device_tracker.see, it still wants a device ID or MAC address. What should be provided?

[balloob]

we should generate a registration iD for the device ID.

I'm fine with including speed, altitutde etc. Those can be useful.

Source type should always be GPS, as that's what mobile devices use.

Location name, shouldn't we resolve that using zones?

Consider home, isn't that done by mapping GPS to the home zone at backend?

[robbiet480]

Source type can be bluetooth_le for iBeacon.

Location name is set by the app for situations in which a iBeacon doesn't have defined coordinates like its in a car.

We set Consider Home to 180 seconds for iBeacon exits to resolve some issues people have had with the iOS app jumping in and out of the zone.

[balloob]

I think that iBeacon sightings might have to be processed via the iOS extension

[robbiet480]

iBeacon exists on Android though too...

[balloob]

Wwe should not premature standardize, let's first see what things are in demand.

[balloob]

It's a non-breaking change to move something from ios to mobile_app if the API stays the same