They show a map where vehivle last parked compared to you.
They could use it for their proprietary phone as key feature that doesn’t work and is unreliable compared to using UWB.
Gonna add this one since its totally the reason, sell your data. They store the car data, why not get the phones location data so you can get them all the time!
I haven’t deved android since before all of the permission overhauls but I believe aprpximate would suffice for those cases, and I don’t think they are actually needed. Luckily with a little bit of work and someones open source project I was able to get a home assistant integration to use their API and give them 0 of those permission requests.
I’m no android pro Dev, so no absolute confidence in my point. You’re probably right.
And good you managed to bring it into HA without the permissions.
They need it for 2 things I believe.
Sure they sell the data…my point was just that they would probably need the permission even if they didn’t want your actual location.
I haven’t deved android since before all of the permission overhauls but I believe aprpximate would suffice for those cases, and I don’t think they are actually needed. Luckily with a little bit of work and someones open source project I was able to get a home assistant integration to use their API and give them 0 of those permission requests.
I’m no android pro Dev, so no absolute confidence in my point. You’re probably right. And good you managed to bring it into HA without the permissions.