Reduce Update Delay in When Sensor Location Changes

[hsbaath]

Thank you for developing the Places component

Is it possible to configure the Places component to update immediately when the latitude or longitude of the tracked sensor changes?

I’m using the Places API to monitor my car's live location. However, I’ve noticed that updates are delayed by about 10 minutes. For example, when the car leaves home or arrives back, the Places entity continues to show the previous location and only updates after a delay.

Is there a way to configure the Places to trigger an update as soon as the original sensor's attributes (latitude or longitude) change?

[Snuffy2]

It should be updating as soon as the lat/long changes. From your screenshot, Jeep is the tracked entity and Jeep Live Location is the Places sensor, correct? What kind of entity is Jeep? device_tracker, person, sensor, etc?

[michelscholte]

I have the same problem. I am using pnbrckner's life360 integration to track a person. When the person moves, the latitude/longitude is updated about every 15 seconds, but the Places sensor updates about once every 2 minutes, and sometimes longer.

[Snuffy2]

Mine updates pretty quickly. Top row is places sensor, bottom is device_tracker.

@michelscholte, same question to you. What kind of entity is connected to the places sensor? device_tracker, person, sensor, etc?

[hsbaath]

It should be updating as soon as the lat/long changes. From your screenshot, Jeep is the tracked entity and Jeep Live Location is the Places sensor, correct? What kind of entity is Jeep? device_tracker, person, sensor, etc?

yes Jeep live location( below) is places sensor, and Jeep (top row) is sensor with these attributes

Latitude
Longitude
Source type = gps
GPS accuracy = 2

[michelscholte]

Hi,

First. Thanks for your quick comment.

It is a device_tracker.

As you can see below the last_update time is changed, but the las_updated not. At that moment the person is driving on a highway and the coordinates of device_tracker changed every 15 seconds.

[Snuffy2]

Sorry, I'm still not able to determine if there is an issue. Last Changed at 08:31 and Last Updated at 08:37 says to me that places rechecked the device_tracker at 08:37 and determined the coordinates on the device_tracker were unchanged from 08:31.

places listens for the tracked entity to change and will trigger each time it changes (unless the change is <10 seconds from the prior check). Additionally, places runs every 10 minutes even if not triggered by a change in the entity.

Can you please enable debug logging and grab the logs while someone is driving (or something similar). You can post them here or email them to me at my7idwq0@mail.snuffy2.com if you prefer.

[michelscholte]

Unfortunately, I haven't had time to get more information together yet. Hopefully I'll manage it this week. I'll let you know.

[michelscholte]

Due to security reasons (locations of my family), I send you part of the logging through email. Hopefully you can find something. Thanks in forward.