LUA code for geolocation

[BernhardtZs 0]

Hi to All!

 

I have a problem to get my mobile location, and some issue with the calculateDistance function.

I have HC3, here is my mobile registered, location is set. On my mobile is the location all the time allowed. It seems to me, when I get closer to my house, that a Fibaro-Icon is showing but for 1 sec only, and nothing happened after this.

 

My code is the following:
Line 1: local userID = 2
Line 2: local homeLocation = "xx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;xx.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
Line 3: local userLocation = fibaro:getValue(userID, "Location")
Line 4: local distance     = fibaro:calculateDistance(userLocation, homeLocation)

 

The error what I got:
for Line 3: "Assertion failed: Expected number". Here I have tried also: local userLocation = fibaro:getValue(tonumber(userID), "Location")
for Line 4: "attempt to call a nil value (method 'calculateDistance')"

 

What could be the problem here?

Thank you for your help!
Zsolt

[tinman 1,070]

4 hours ago, BernhardtZs said:

I have HC3, here is my mobile registered, location is set. On my mobile is the location all the time allowed. It seems to me, when I get closer to my house, that a Fibaro-Icon is showing but for 1 sec only, and nothing happened after this.

 

My code is the following:

 

HC3, but what you using is HC2 example (fibaro:getValue vs fibaro.getValue or hub.getValue)

 

Afaik there is no calculateDistance on HC3, so you need to code your own, e.g.

 

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This is based on perfect sphere, there is as well WGS84 elipsoid model, used by GPS itself. However, we talking about 10cm more accuracy each every 100m (in Berlin).
Besides of that the location radius in Yubii app is reduced to 150m, no idea it the data is being updated once one arrived at home location.

Edited November 20, 2025 by tinman

[BernhardtZs 0]

Thank you for your answer.

It is still not working

Error message is: "14: bad argument #1 to 'find' (string expected, got nil)"

 

I think because the "hub.getValue(userID, "Location")" get no value is null.

What could be here the problem?

 

I have checked the API:

http://<IP_ADDRESS>/api/users/2

 

Here is no value for Location. That could be a problem. But I understood not why is not there?

Edited November 21, 2025 by BernhardtZs

[Łukasz997 117]

From my experience: hub.getValue(userID, "Location") does not work at all - as you noticed returns nil. So, there’s no way to retrieve user position on HC3 (and compute the distance from home). One and only you can count on is notification that user enter or leave geofence. 

Simplest, You can use it in scenes.
And in quickapps through the event mechanism. The latter certainly requires more knowledge about the HC3.

And even this is still not a very reliable. 

Edited November 21, 2025 by Łukasz997

[BernhardtZs 0]

Thank you for your answer.

I wanted to try with this location query, because after I have created a scene, nothing happened.