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Traccar is relatively easy to set up, for those who might be interested in ditching Google for location history altogether.

cobertos 3y ago
Any conflicts with battery optimization? Google's location scraping felt more bulletproof because they seemed to prioritize it at the OS-level on Android over how normal apps function
- jmbwell 3y ago
  On my iOS device, according to the battery report in the Settings app, the Traccar client does appear to use about 8% of my battery throughout the day. Google doesn’t show up at all, however, which doesn’t seem correct at all, so I’m not sure Google isn’t doing something to hide its true consumption from the OS.
- kelnos 3y ago
  I've been using OwnTracks for years now with no issues. I disabled battery optimization for it. Granted, I don't have a phone made by a manufacturer that has decided to add garbage to the OS to aggressively kill background apps. Only annoyance is Android has a thing where it doesn't allow apps that start on boot to automatically start getting GPS data, so on every boot you have to tap a notification to kick things off.
  - cobertos 3y ago
    Which phone manufacturer is that? I hate having to remember all the apps I disable battery optimization for. I think I currently have like 5 apps or so.
mbirth 3y ago
As an early adopter of Google Latitude, my location database is currently about 400 MB. During a bout of Degoogling I‘ve imported my Google Location History Takeout into php-owntracks-recorder and used it happily with the OwnTracks app on my phones. About a year ago I’ve replaced it with PhoneTrack running on my NextCloud - while keeping the OwnTracks app as a client. These days, I want to check out Traccar and how it compares to PhoneTrack. I believe Traccar can also work with OwnTracks data. So if the Traccar client doesn’t behave, it’s a nice alternative.

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Traccar is relatively easy to set up, for those who might be interested in ditching Google for location history altogether.

by jmbwell 3y ago

cobertos 3y ago
Any conflicts with battery optimization? Google's location scraping felt more bulletproof because they seemed to prioritize it at the OS-level on Android over how normal apps function
- jmbwell 3y ago
  On my iOS device, according to the battery report in the Settings app, the Traccar client does appear to use about 8% of my battery throughout the day. Google doesn’t show up at all, however, which doesn’t seem correct at all, so I’m not sure Google isn’t doing something to hide its true consumption from the OS.
- kelnos 3y ago
  I've been using OwnTracks for years now with no issues. I disabled battery optimization for it. Granted, I don't have a phone made by a manufacturer that has decided to add garbage to the OS to aggressively kill background apps. Only annoyance is Android has a thing where it doesn't allow apps that start on boot to automatically start getting GPS data, so on every boot you have to tap a notification to kick things off.
  - cobertos 3y ago
    Which phone manufacturer is that? I hate having to remember all the apps I disable battery optimization for. I think I currently have like 5 apps or so.
mbirth 3y ago
As an early adopter of Google Latitude, my location database is currently about 400 MB. During a bout of Degoogling I‘ve imported my Google Location History Takeout into php-owntracks-recorder and used it happily with the OwnTracks app on my phones. About a year ago I’ve replaced it with PhoneTrack running on my NextCloud - while keeping the OwnTracks app as a client. These days, I want to check out Traccar and how it compares to PhoneTrack. I believe Traccar can also work with OwnTracks data. So if the Traccar client doesn’t behave, it’s a nice alternative.