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In some situations it would be nice to continuously send a smartphone's location to other family members.
What I am looking for is:
Free software
Self hosted
Only transmitting when actively turned on by the user, this must not be spyware
What can you recommend?
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@ckeen @esopriester Traccar. It’s meant for fleet management, but you can use it to share your location with friends as well. :3
@NikTheDusky @ckeen @esopriester +1 for #Traccar.
We use it since... nearly a decade I assume to monitor our cars (equipped with a cheapo Android) and ... share our positions to each other 😁
Runs great even on a #Raspberry at home (for about 4 years) but currently on a 1€/mo VPS (also over 2 years now).
@ckeen Ich meine, es gab da mal ne App für Nextcloud?? 🤔
Weiß nur nich, wie die hieß.
@ckeen I'm also interested and would otherwise try to build something using a simple “web app”; basically a web page with some JS to read / submit GPS to a small backend.
@sci_photos @ckeen I know people who tried years ago, there was no simple solution (I think the biggest issue was to collect GPS data, which seems to be phone specific)... But maybe this is irrelevant nowadays (?)
@jcolomb @ckeen Now, browsers have an API for that, here a snippet from my small demo:
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition( (position) => {
const { latitude, longitude, accuracy } = position.coords;
div.innerText = `📍 Latitude: ${latitude.toFixed(6)}, Longitude: ${longitude.toFixed(6)}\n🎯: ${accuracy} m`;
};
@sci_photos @jcolomb @ckeen The harder part will probably be the "continously", .i.e convincing the smartphone OS to let the app run reliably in the background without stopping it...
@jcolomb @sci_photos @ckeen OwnTracks is something that should work for that these days. I'm using it single user for getting rough location displayed on my website but it allows for multiuser friend sharing
@ckeen I haven't tested it yet, but I'm currently looking into OwnTracks https://owntracks.org/booklet/ because I need something like that too
@ckeen There is https://github.com/owntracks
@ckeen Also, if you have HomeAssistant, there is a plugin that does it all for you :-)