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Recommend me a smart watch I can track remotely in Home Assistant (lemmy.nz)
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I'm after a watch that I can put on a kid when they are on their own at a park etc.

What I'd like:

  • It's own data connection so it doesn't need a phone with it
  • Home Assistant support so I can track it remotely via home assistant, automations, etc
  • Some way of calling them when it's time to come home, or them calling us when needed
  • We don't have an iPhone so I think Apple is out since it needs an iPhone for setup
  • No subscriptions outside of the cost of the cellphone plan
  • Preferably doesn't need OEM servers, just connect to Home Assistant
  • Handling knocks and bumps would be a bonus
  • If you can run a non-google OS without tracking etc GrapheneOS style then yay but I don't know if that exists

Any suggestions?

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[–] 2 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 child)

Just to chime in: I have a couple of GPS Meshtastic lumps I use for tracking my cars in Home Assistant. I live in the North West of England - if you take a look at a map, I get reliable coverage as far north as Lancaster and as far south as Wigan, with unreliable coverage as far north as Barrow-in-Furness and as far south as Liverpool. That said, there are a lot of Meshtastic users in the area thanks to a lot of publicity from a local YouTuber (Ringway Manchester) who is into his radio kit, so your mileage may well vary.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 9 hours ago

    My main use case is within 1km of my house, and largely within a couple of hundred metres of my house, so it's quite possible the devices I get can can just talk to each other.

    With that said, it seems where I live there is a recommendation to use SF16 instead of Long Fast due to crowding of devices, which seems promising even though I don't know what that means 😅

    I ended up ordering two of the T-Watchers and a T-Lora Pager and am looking forward to having a play!

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