GrapheneOS
Home Assistant location tracking not working
Since the 2025111800 update the Home Assistant app is failing to track location unless high accuracy is enabled full time. I've tried reinstalling Home Assistant app, resetting data, etc. I have tried to roll back the app to 2 previous versions. I have checked every setting and I see nothing that has changed since prior to the update. In non-high accuracy mode it does not report location nor does it appear to be querying Graphene for location data. I'm not sure what logs I need to post to get help with this. I've also found a couple other people with this problem as well, so this isn't an isolated issue.
I have a similar issue, however it's not related to HA but to OwnTracks. Ever since the update to Android 16 (99% sure about that) location tracking won't work properly anymore unless I open the app. I think this might be related and probably caused by some battery optimization stuff?
I have a similar issue, however it's not related to HA but to OwnTracks. Ever since the update to Android 16 (99% sure about that) location tracking won't work properly anymore unless I open the app. I think this might be related and probably caused by some battery optimization stuff?
I've seen similar complaints on other forums about it affecting OwnTracks too.
I am using Android 16 for quit some time. Location updates in Home Assistant stopped I think 1,5 / 2 weeks ago. I was using Places and that also doesn't work anymore. Tried OwnTracks, but the same results.
Here the same problem. Me and my wife have the same phone. My wife is always ignoring updates. So i am 100% dure it happend with the latest update.
Home assistent normally update the location. Since the GOS update it stopped. My location bever changed
In the privacy dashboard i can see that home assistent is using the location service. But somehow it is not getting the coordiantes
Same here, Home Assistant location stopped working, other apps using location like CoMaps working fine
Correction: CoMaps is also only working if high accuracy is enabled
Have you tried enabling Network location? I ran into a similar issue with another third-party app after the same 2025111800 update. It resolved when I enabled the GrapheneOS proxy.
Have you tried enabling Network location? I ran into a https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/6705 with another third-party app after the same 2025111800 update. It resolved when I enabled the GrapheneOS proxy.
Came here to say this after reading https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/6505#issuecomment-3524647738 : Since I updated to Android 16 QPR1 (or one of the other releases during that time), some of my apps could no longer get a location fix – except for 1-2 times when, I suppose, the GPS fix was obtained very quickly. Now I just enabled network location (through the GrapheneOS proxy) and everything works again like a charm! Interestingly, though, it works with both wifi and wifi scanning disabled, which I thought shouldn't work?
Anyway, while things seem to work now, like @RonaldPhilipsen I'm not sure how comfortable I feel sending wifi names anywhere.
@thestinger Would it be possible for the OS to provide a location obtained from GPS when the app is requesting a network location and network location is disabled? In other words: Shouldn't it be completely irrelevant to the app how the OS obtains the location? If not, I think it would be useful for the OS to at least issue a warning when an app requests the network location but network location is disabled. Right now, it feels rather buggy because many apps will end up telling the user "You need to grant location permission", when they have already granted said permissions.
The funny thing I seeing is no tracking like everyone else, BUT I do get entering "some" zones which 8s super confusing to me.
You can enable Network location without WiFi and bluetooth scanning and it'll only use cell towers. Even if it's less accurate, enabling this was still enough to get my app working again
I dont know what settings to use, I cannot get Home Assitant to get a location at all (even with all settings enabled, like high accuracy, network location etc). Sometimes when I restart the phone it gets a location fix one time, after that it just stops getting a location, were other apps like GPSTest, CoMaps (only when high accuracy enabled) keeps working. I run Play services with no Google account