Nearly – Family Location Sharing Without the Data Harvesting

This is a cool project. Privacy-minded location sharing is a topic I see discussed somewhat often - there arent (yet) many strong options How is location data made accessible when the tracked device is out of range for your HA LAN? Without a remote, centralized server, there must be a VPN tunnel directly to the HA server, right? Is that a separate service your users will need to configure?