Track my location ?

[timconsidine]

@RoundHouse1924 thank you
I did not know Traccar supported a phone or something, but will check it out in case it does.
I had it on a car but there was some concern about battery drain, so I removed it

[timconsidine]

@luckow thank you
I scanned past FindMyDevice because I don't use Android much and thought it was android specific. Will check

[RoundHouse1924]

@timconsidine
Traccar has clients for Android & iPhone
https://www.traccar.org/client/

Also, Traccar Manager for mobile
https://www.traccar.org/manager/

[imc67]

https://forum.cloudron.io/post/108131 Not here yet but seems much better! ️

[timconsidine]

@RoundHouse1924 Thank you ! again !

I had only known of and thought about Traccar for devices to go in vehicles.

I learned that Traccar does have an app for iOS (and Android) to act as a client, which can be configured to register the phone as a device for Traccar server.

It's kind of a fat solution but it's there ! and it's on Cloudron

[nebulon]

For the personal use-case dawarich (which is not yet packaged) would probably be the way to go. I keep watching their releases, eventually we will package it.

Traccar is more like fleet management.

[luckow]

Fun fact: there is an integration for Traccar in Home Assistant
https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/traccar/
The moment your smart home knows your location, it can react to this fact.

[timconsidine]

@imc67 yes, it looks a lot nicer (richer), more for a user than an admin of vehicles (Traccar).
But with that niceness / richness comes a lot of code, or maybe it's just the mapping overload.
I'm testing it as a deployment on a VPS.

[timconsidine]

I have a self-hosted Seq to log data submitted to it.
I love its simplicity but power.
If only I could find a phone app to write data out to it.
Might be a case of writing my own !

[timconsidine]

I can be a stubborn cuss at times
I made a simple iPhone app to record GPS location every XX minutes and submit it to my Seq server.
Yep, it's just a log, no fancy graphics, that's Traccar or Dawarich job

Need to test it, but will release it on iOS AppStore if the Apple gods decide it is compliant.