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I recommend the Colota app for tracking. I use a mix of Reitti and Dawarich at the moment to log the info (both of which support sharing) as I can’t work out which I prefer.

https://github.com/dietrichmax/colota

https://colota.app/

I use Pangolin reverse proxy with OAuth (PocketID) for family access to services, along with CrowdSec, and for the Immich app access which needs to bypass auth login through the reverse proxy, I use ‘link share’ in Pangolin that gives me header tokens that can be entered in to the Immich app under Advanced settings.

I’ve been an Immich user for over 2 years now, so it’s been a journey for me to implement it to this standard.

Or as someone else suggests, try CloudFlare with something like Google Auth login. Just be aware that you are then exposing all your traffic to Cloudflare. I take that as a small sacrifice for simiplicity.

Good to hear!

However I may have spoken too soon with Colota… it stopped registering my location after a first trip, and wouldn’t restart tracking until I restarted my phone (GrapheneOS Pixel 9). I need to look at the logs and maybe raise an issue.

Dawarich has had some great updates in the past few weeks, and I’m hoping Colota + Dawarich is my future family tracker system as they both have a very nice feel to them.

GPS Logger + Reitti is my background system atm while I mess with Colota & Dawarich.

I’ve been using Colota this weekend sending data to a Dawarich server. I like that you can filter out inaccurate GPS readings by setting an accuracy threshold, so this removes any false points that I tend to get with other location apps.

I’ve tried GPS Logger for Reitti, and the new Android Dawarich app, but so far, Colota seems the best (early days). It has the nicest ui as well.

In terms of what to enter, you need to find out what HA requires for the URL to receive data, then set that in the Colota app. Colota will just store the location data until you set a remote end for it to connect to.

Moved all my Unraid ‘apps’ to Dockhand, and linked my Pangolin VPS with the Hawser agent. I had Dockge for a while on newer container deployments, but wanted something a bit more playful, Dockhand is it.

I degoogled my GMail last year to Infomaniak, which was OK, but moved to Fastmail last week, which I now love! Setting the custom domain pulled in the sites favicon for the Fastmail account header, which made me smile too much for such a simple thing. Think I’ll be on Fastmail for the future. (Background syncing with the new Bichon email archiver).

I was just thinking this week, that those who self host (and more importantly, those who program the code we self host), are at the front line of the modern digital resistance: in the sense that the world is burning due to the greed of the tech bros that run our daily lives. Convienience for the masses is what gives them power over us, and any one who rejects their systems is helping to fight back.

Voting with your wallet helps, so not giving them your money is the first step. Then managing and keeping your own data private is the next one.