Know where they are.
Nobody else does.

Track your kids, your pets, your car, your keys. See everyone on a single map that lives on your home server. No company gets the data. No subscription required. No cloud between you and your family.
SEE HOW IT WORKS
WHAT YOU CAN TRACK
Everything. Locally.

Haven Locate turns your Home Assistant dashboard into a real-time family map. Phones, wearables, pet collars, vehicles, anything with GPS or a Meshtastic radio shows up on your map and stays in your house.

Family phones

Every phone on your Haven network reports its location directly to your home server. No third-party app, no Life360, no Apple or Google watching.

Pet collars

Meshtastic collar nodes give you GPS tracking for dogs and cats across your neighborhood without cellular. Just radio and satellites.

Vehicles

OBD-II trackers or simple GPS modules report your car's location to Haven. Know where it's parked, when it moves, set geofence alerts.

Keys & bags

Bluetooth beacons integrated with Home Assistant. Lose something in the house? Your Haven server knows which room it's in.

Kids on foot

Meshtastic wearables give kids a panic button and location beacon that works in the park, at the bus stop, anywhere within mesh range.

Elderly family

Gentle location sharing for aging parents. Know they got home from the store. Get alerts if something seems off. All private.

WHAT THEY CHARGE
The cost of knowing where your family is

Every tracking app below sells your family's location data, locks features behind subscriptions, or both. Here's what they cost and what they take.

Haven Locate

Location data never leaves your home. Built into Haven, runs on your server, zero monthly fees. Track phones via the companion app, pets and gear via Meshtastic mesh radios, vehicles via GPS modules. One map, one dashboard, no cloud.

No monthly subscription
Location data stays on your server
Track phones, pets, cars, gear
Meshtastic mesh for off-grid areas
Geofence alerts & automations
No account required, no data harvesting

Life360

Family Tracking App
Free–$15/mo · Up to $360/yr
Caught selling precise location data to brokers (2022 FTC)
Free tier strips features, nudges you into Gold/Platinum
~ Crash detection and roadside assistance on paid tiers
55M+ users' location histories on Life360's servers

Apple Find My

Ecosystem Tracker
"Free" with Apple hardware
~ Works well within the Apple ecosystem
Apple-only. No Android family members allowed
All location data routes through Apple's servers
AirTags: $29 each, limited to Apple devices

Google Find Hub

Android Tracking
"Free" with Google account
Requires Google account on every tracked device
Location history feeds Google's advertising profile
No pet tracking, no mesh, no offline capability
~ Works across Android devices and Pixel Buds

Tile / AirTag

Item Trackers
$25–35/tag + $3/mo premium
~ Good for keys and bags in urban areas
Relies on crowd-sourced network (other people's phones)
Premium features locked behind subscription
Useless in rural areas with no crowd network

Annual Cost: Family of Four + 2 Pets

What it costs to track a family of four plus two pets for one year, including all hardware and subscriptions.
Haven Locate
~$120*
Google Find
$0†
Apple Find My
~$150†
Tile Premium
~$250
Life360 Gold
~$300
Life360 Platinum
~$500
*Haven Locate: one-time cost for Meshtastic hardware (collar nodes, base station). No ongoing fees. Already included for Haven subscribers.
†"Free" services pay with your data. Google and Apple use your location to build advertising profiles and train AI models.
MESHTASTIC MESH NETWORK
Tracking that works where cell towers don't.

Meshtastic is open-source radio mesh networking. Small, cheap radios that talk to each other over long range without cellular, without internet, without anyone in the middle.

How the mesh works

A base station at your house connects to your Haven server. Collar nodes on your pets, wearable nodes on your kids, and vehicle nodes in your car all communicate back to that base station over LoRa radio. Range: 1–10+ miles depending on terrain and antenna setup.

No SIM card. No cellular plan. No monthly fee. The radios cost $15–40 each and run for weeks on a single charge. They report GPS position, battery level, and can even send short text messages.

For families in rural areas, this is transformative. Your kid can walk to a friend's house a mile away and you can see their location on your Haven dashboard the entire time, through forest, across fields, with zero cellular coverage needed.

Pet collars

SenseCAP T1000-E nodes in weatherproof housings. GPS + LoRa in a package small enough for a dog collar. Track Olympia through the woods in real time.

Kid wearables

Wristband or clip-on nodes. Panic button sends an alert to your Haven dashboard instantly. Location updates every 30–120 seconds.

Vehicle trackers

USB-powered nodes that plug into a car's USB port. Reports location whenever within mesh range. Pairs with OBD-II for speed, mileage, diagnostics.

HOW IT WORKS
Three pieces. One map.
01

Haven server

Your Home Assistant instance runs the tracking dashboard. All location data stores locally. Accessible from any device on your network or remotely via Haven.

02

Phone companion

The Home Assistant companion app on each family member's phone reports location to your server. No third-party app, no middleman, no cloud relay.

03

Mesh radios

For pets, kids, cars, and anything else: Meshtastic nodes talk to a base station at your house, which feeds location data into Haven automatically.

Your family's location is
your family's business.

Set up private tracking for everyone you love without handing that data to anyone else.

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