iCloud3 has graduated from a Beta status to a Release Candidate status.
Beta 1 was uploaded in Dec, 2022 and went through 20 iterations. During that time many features were added based on your feedback, suggestions and feature requests. Not to mention that more than a few bugs were found and fixed. Right now, it has almost 30,000 lines of code and took more than 2 1/2 years from the last release of v2. At the last count, v2 has about 9800 downloads world wide.
Thanks for working with me. I appreciate it,
Gary
Important Links
Installing using HACS - iCloud3 is not available on HACS unless you have set it up as a custom repository. See here for instructions on how to do that and then install it. If you just go to HACS and do the installation, you will be installing v2.4.7, not v3.
Manual Download and Install - Go to the iCloud3 Releases page here. Scroll down past the notes, then select Assets, then select icloud3.zip. Download the zip file and unzip it into the /config/custom_components/icloud3 directory. Then restart HA.
Migrating from v2.4._ - See here for instructions on migrating from from an older version.
iCloud3 v3 Documentation - It is still in process, does not include the latest updates to iCloud3 and can be found here
Change Log:
- Event Log - Changed the text on the heading for each update. Now the Arrival Time (if going towards Home or another Track-fromZone) or the Next Update time is displayed.
- Short interval tracking (15-secs when close to a zone) - The current location data is used if it is below the old location threshold. When interval is short (5-secs) after leaving or approaching a zone, that location was reused when the next interval was reached since it was not old and still acceptable. Now, the next update interval time is taken into consideration when determining if the locaqtion should be refreshed.
- iOS APP Loation Request - If the iCloud account (FamShr) location is old a number of times in a row, a location request will be sent to the iOS App on every 4th iCloud request.
- Improvements to Monitored Devices tracking.