Comment on Dawarich: 10 years of recorded tracks and now they have a purpose
danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 1 week ago
I would try to use GPSLogger, it is capable of sending data to dawarich and is really reliable. AFAIK, the Owntracks app has a queue and normally sends the data back when it is online, but I also found that this is sometimes not the case, and there is no way of restoring it then. GPSLogger has the advantage that it stores the GPX file also on your phone; if something goes wrong, you can still grab that and upload it.
Colota also seems like an awesome alternative. I’ve only heard good things about it.
trilobite@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Cool, thanks. GPSlogger is also on fdroid whereas calota is not.
Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Actually Dawarich and Colota are both in F-droid.
trilobite@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
For some reason when i do a search it doesn’t find them. Then when i click on a link provided by someone it’t there …how annoying. But yes, i downloaded Colota today and impressed thus far. I need to get profile to do what i want still …
mxdcodes@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Colota dev here 👋 What do you want the profiles to do?
Profiles are an optional thing to finetune your tracking settings based on certain conditions, e.g. speed above or below x km/h, phone charging, Android Auto connected or being stationary. So you could raise the interval while charging, since that usually means you are not moving. To start with you could also make a pause zone at home and at work and turn on the WiFi pause. GPS stops completely while you are there and the app will consume much less battery. Tracking resumes when the WiFi drops.
I would add one at a time and see if it behaves like you want. When you create like 10 different tracking profiles with different priorities they can interfere with each other, so less is often more.