# Friday Funday: Live Location Tracking in Tulip with a Custom Widget

**URL:** <https://community.tulip.co/t/friday-funday-live-location-tracking-in-tulip-with-a-custom-widget/15687>\
**Category:** Show and Tell\
**Created:** [October 3, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/friday-funday-live-location-tracking-in-tulip-with-a-custom-widget/15687 "2025-10-03T21:50:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![mellerbeck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@mellerbeck](https://community.tulip.co/u/mellerbeck)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/friday-funday-live-location-tracking-in-tulip-with-a-custom-widget/15687/1 "2025-10-03T21:50:21Z")

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> **[Friday Funday: Live Location Tracking in Tulip with a Custom Widget](https://michaelellerbeck.com/2025/10/03/friday-funday-live-location-tracking-in-tulip-with-a-custom-widget/)**
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> One of the things I’ve been excited to play with is location tracking from a Tulip app. Let’s get to it!Let keep it KISS, just display the GPS location on screen. First things first, ne…

One of the things I’ve been excited to play with is location tracking from a Tulip app. Let’s get to it!

Let keep it KISS, just display the GPS location on screen. First things first, need to enable the

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/2X/8/88fff04179a528b959413aede583eafaab050138.png)](https://michaelellerbeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image-7.png)

And enable geolocation

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/2X/d/d45b851ca266e2b7261d148881296278bcc984a2.png)](https://michaelellerbeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image-8.png)

Make a bit of HTML and Javascript [https://github.com/mellerbeck/simple\_tulip\_gps/tree/main](https://github.com/mellerbeck/simple_tulip_gps/tree/main)

Ok, cool. We have lift off!

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/2X/d/d6acab16846f63aeef0d290ccb124bd266554155.png)](https://michaelellerbeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image-9.png)

Let’s put this in an app, and test it on the road!

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/2X/9/9e9026c52dd6b84b972ad03c54c1472e96310cf3.png)](https://michaelellerbeck.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/image-10.png)

So, it looks like if I run it in the safari browser (\player) version. It works! (It asks for permission to use the GPS)

I haven’t been able to get it to work in the tulip player yet though! I suspect the app might needs some modifications to pass the enablement of location sharing.

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**Author:** ![Akira](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/akira/32/2919_2.png) [@Akira](https://community.tulip.co/u/Akira)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/friday-funday-live-location-tracking-in-tulip-with-a-custom-widget/15687/2 "2025-10-23T12:28:01Z")

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Hello @mellerbeck ,

Thank you so much for this geolocation widget. It worked well. As you mentioned, I hope Tulip Player will handle gelocation permission to use the GPS.

Kind Regards,  
Akira Takahashi

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**Author:** ![mellerbeck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@mellerbeck](https://community.tulip.co/u/mellerbeck)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/friday-funday-live-location-tracking-in-tulip-with-a-custom-widget/15687/3 "2025-10-23T15:10:40Z")

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We need to lean on them to enable it 🙂

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**Author:** ![Akira](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.tulip.co/akira/32/2919_2.png) [@Akira](https://community.tulip.co/u/Akira)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 1:15am UTC](https://community.tulip.co/t/friday-funday-live-location-tracking-in-tulip-with-a-custom-widget/15687/4 "2025-10-27T01:15:35Z")

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Hello @Pete_Hartnett ,

New custom widget feature has been released and we can access “Geolocation” of own device. But right now Tulip Player doesn’t pop up permission dialog when we load custom widgets which contains “Geolocation”.

Is there any road map to allow us to access Geolocation and etc. via Tulip Player?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/agilemfg/original/2X/3/36df8b3adeb9f9277e5df0fbe48376c8034619c3.png)

Kind Regards,  
Akira Takahashi