Comment on Dawarich: 10 years of recorded tracks and now they have a purpose
trilobite@lemmy.ml 1 week agoCool. 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.)