External_search_in_use problem

You can try following patch to enable location search:
https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/sharetribe/sharetribe/pull/3256.patch

Apply it to your code:

 wget https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/sharetribe/sharetribe/pull/3256.patch
 patch -p1 <3256.patch

Then rebuild sphinx index:

 rake ts:rebuild

Restart your server and delayed jobs worker.

In admin settings then change search mode to “keyword and location”.