Save Parking Location

1. Automate Community
2. Transportation

Description:

Automatically save Parking Location based on Bluetooth disconnection (car stereo / hands free Bluetooth device) with the option of storing text or an image when parking away from your home location to aid in returning to your vehicle I.e. can store "level 7. block 15. back left of carpark)" which will be shown when you run 'find my car'


Setup:

1. Start the Save Parking Location flow

2. Pick your Bluetooth device (that will trigger the location being stored when it disconnects)

3. Pick your home location

4. Download the shortcut flow - https://llamalab.com/automate/community/flows/44984

5. Open the shortcut flow and click edit

6. Click block 1 and select 'install homescreen shortcut' (this is find your car shortcut)

7. Click block 8 and select 'install homescreen shortcut' (this is manually save current location shortcut)

8. Come out of edit mode of the shortcut flow & exit automate (it doesn't need running / won't run, as it just runs once when the homescreen 'find vehicle' / 'manual location save' shortcuts are selected)

9. Now on Bluetooth disconnection or hitting manually save location shortcut it'll write your location to file and if away from home location you get the option to add text ('level 6, block 4 of multistorey carpark....'), add a photo or do both. (Note: Manually save location will always show the text/image input option)

10. When you click 'find my car' shortcut it'll put the saved location into maps (Google maps / waze / what three words / whatever your default is) with any additional text that your stored, once you get close to the location (about 50 meters) then the text/photo/both will pop up on your screen.

Notes:

1. It is fairly easy to change the trigger method if you just want to use it as a base for your own design. I.e. trigger from physical activities (i.e. going from 'in vehicle' to walking) or charger disconnected or NFC tag etc. Rather than Bluetooth, but if you do that, make sure to remove the auto update blocks (#85 - #113) or change the flow ID in #85 to point to your upload to the community store. So that any updates I make don't overwrite your changes.

2. ATM there is no way to reset the Bluetooth device or home location. For that, you have to manually delete the carpark_bluetooth & carpark_ignore files. Will look to update it to include easy options to reset these and also clean up the file locations in the future