As a courtesy to my girlfriend I send a text when I am done flying so she knows I'm on the ground safely. Not that long ago I forgot ... and I had her niece on board, which caused some stress and worry especially since it was after dark. After that I searched for and found an Android utility that will prevent that from happening again.
The app is named Automate, I have no affiliation, I just found it to be the easiest the automation tools I tried. The 'flow' is always running on my phone and does not cause any significant battery drain or adverse affects. It waits in the background for my planes Bluetooth to connect to my phone. Once the connection is made it checks to see if it already sent a text, if so it sleeps 2 minutes and checks again. If not already 'flying' the tool will acquire my gps location, set a variable 'flying' to true and send a preformated text with my location to a predetermined number. When the Bluetooth connection is no longer Automate sets the 'flying' variable to false and sends done flying text.
The app is named Automate, I have no affiliation, I just found it to be the easiest the automation tools I tried. The 'flow' is always running on my phone and does not cause any significant battery drain or adverse affects. It waits in the background for my planes Bluetooth to connect to my phone. Once the connection is made it checks to see if it already sent a text, if so it sleeps 2 minutes and checks again. If not already 'flying' the tool will acquire my gps location, set a variable 'flying' to true and send a preformated text with my location to a predetermined number. When the Bluetooth connection is no longer Automate sets the 'flying' variable to false and sends done flying text.