Comment on Dawarich: 10 years of recorded tracks and now they have a purpose
trilobite@lemmy.ml 1 week agoFor 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.
trilobite@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Cool. So I have a driving profile that is logging every 5 seconds after I exceed 10km/h (movement threshold is 10m); activation/deactivation 0/60 respectively. I’m finding the tracks are not smooth and because point get logged once or twice in town roads (i.e. the track cuts roads). Is this profile recording one point every 5 secs if and only if I exceed 10km/h? In that case I would expect a lot more points logged. How do I tell it to log a point every 10 m for example? Rather than use time interval? Priority is 9 while my home profile (stationary) is 10.
mxdcodes@lemmy.world 1 week ago
In case you have a profile that should activate at >10km/h it will kick in when the last 5 points average speed is above >10 km/h. The notifcation banner and dashboard will show when a profile is active. If your interval for that profile is 5s, a new point will be requested every 5 seconds. With a movement threshold of 10m in that profile, all points that have not atleast a distance of 10m to the last location will be skipped.
So to get smoother tracks you can decrease the movement threshold. Personally I use a movement threshold of 2m with a tracking interval of 6seconds which works very well for me.
Logging points every 10m is without a time interval is not possible, because the app needs a location to determine you moved 10m. A workaround would be to decrease the interval to something like 3 sec and set the movement threshold to 10m. Then the app will request every 3 seconds a new location and checks if it is atleast 10m apart from the last point. If it is it will recorded and otherwise it will be discarded. That will use a lot more battery though.
You can read more about the tracking profiles in the docs: colota.app/docs/guides/tracking-profiles
For places where you stay frequently (home, work, etc.) geofences work better. The stationary profile is good for situations where you are temporary for a longer time at a place (restaurant, friends, etc.)