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ha ha - idea from 3 years ago

@lor74cas - I already have set the max 5 minute update. I have suggested/ questioned here & elsewhere why this limit is so low. For my described use-case I would prefer 1 hour update. Even with this 5 minute update as you can read from my previous posts, Locus is exchanging LT mobile data every minute. BTW there is a bug - if you set more than 5 minutes, then tap Back, the setting is not saved and there is no warning/ error.

+1

maybe all features for premium LT so these hard working Locus guys can make a few $'s; delicate balance

For LT 4g 3g 2g doesn't matter, it works because uses just few byte at every update.

@lor74cas - how do you know it is just few bytes at every update? I have monitored the data using the excellent app GlassWire and it showed consistently over many hours ~294KB download/ 86KB upload per hour. This was LT data going up/ down each minute. For me (294+86)/60 = 6KB/minute. Yes, not a lot of data per minute but it appears to keep the phone working far more than simple offline track recording, and my experience is double the battery consumption which on multi day rides I cannot really afford.

To minimize battery consumption I intend to block LT most of time; just enable each 30 minutes say. [...] or otherwise I need to incur a large battery hit.

So now your experience is this bad?

@tapio - it's not a bad experience; it's impressive functionality; I'm just reporting my battery consumption. I've been using the app "No Root Firewall" and the mobile data traffic is surprisingly high with Locus sending my LT data & Google responding with other LT users each minute even though the update setting is 5 minutes. Yesterday over 5 hours I just disabled flight mode each hour for ~3 minutes, and the battery consumption returned to ~2%/hour. I did find the LT lost/ LT found notifications didn't work reliably. I'll report more later...

[2014]

Maybe I could increase it to 15 minutes, but why more?

@milan.cejnar - my use-case is friends & family tracking my progress. For a bunch of reasons;

• sometimes no wireless/ mobile reception,
• sometimes stopped for sleeping etc.,
• high battery consumption with LT (double consumption of only record tracking), I will be experimenting with flight mode most of the time;
• Locus LT update interval is only max. 5 minutes.

To minimize battery consumption I intend to block LT most of time; just enable each 30 minutes say. That resolution of position is good enough for family & friends; they don't care what street I'm on, just which town/ region I'm recently visiting. Maybe checking once per day; not watching minute by minute. So, most of the time this 10 minute server side timeout means my position won't even be on the webpage, or otherwise I need to incur a large battery hit.

I'll investigate private groups further.

Copyright 2014 at the bottom of https://live-tracking.locusmap.app/manuals/ needs updating?

Link from Creating a new group > Live Tracking Premium @ https://docs.locusmap.eu/doku.php?id=manual:user_guide:functions:live_tracking#creating_a_new_group leads to PC web browser page saying "Your connection is not private" + NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID + "You cannot visit link.locusmap.eu right now because the website uses HSTS"? I tried a few searches via https://docs.locusmap.eu Locus knowledge base but my web browser (Vivaldi) blocks access to the live tracking premium. When I attempt the same from Chrome > Live Tracking > Creating a new group > Live Tracking Premium, the browser gets redirected to https://www.locusmap.eu/.

nice progress

>on the top of mobile web page
web AND PC web page?

>Public group session time remained to be set to 10 minutes
why not longer?

> Is format MM/DD/YYYY unusual for your locale?
isn't MM/DD/YYYY mainly USA format? I thought more common would be DD/MM/YYYY; and the latter is the way other websites display a date to me in Australia; both formats are problematic - who is to say whether 04/03/2019 is 4th March or 3rd April ;-( but that is not your problem

[1] I see, you have declined the idea 5 years ago, but I thing GPS on/off is much more needed than the full GPS window. An additional button is needed :-)

@tapio - the GPS button has a long tap menu --> Turn on/ Turn off. Good enough? I only discovered this feature myself while writing this post. Useful for me too.

However, the zero distance bug has gone now for me.

fixed for me too; I can't find any problems with other track sort methods

Allow time control on how long positions and GPX are revealed.

+1 nice idea, my partner used the live tracking of my ride a few weeks ago but was confused when my position disappeared when no mobile signal at times. It would be better if last known position was retained for (say) 30 minutes (or even longer) rather than just a few minutes.

Also see attached screen cap - support date format DD/MM/YYYY

[Live tracking web]

Thanks all for the feedback for our new Live tracking web. It is work in progress

I like the way when you click on a "group" icon it zooms in to maximize the spread of users; then if you click on an individual icon it re-centers them to the middle of the screen. However once centered a further click does nothing, but maybe it could open the right side panel to display the user details? Yes I know I could click the << link, just lazy. The panel also says "PUBLIC GROUP" but really it is a public individual - I know it is just static text, whether a group or individual is selected, so very cosmetic.

I wonder whether the group count is correct. In Sweden, Suomi I currently see 5 users. When I zoom in a little it splits into a group of 4 + 1 individual. But when I zoom out it shows the group as 6. The numbers don't add up.

It would be nice if, like Google Maps, the URL was continually updated, or there was a Permalink link somewhere you could bookmark, so you could quickly return to your zoomed/ panned part of the world.

I'll email my backup.

Thanks John. I would have taken all day+ to upload my 86MB backup (if it worked at all).

Where are the options for GPS filtering? I was not quite sure if the GPS filtering were in "GPS and sensors" before.

I thought it was in the hidden "expert menu". Maybe it now replaces the previous filtering setting in GPS and sensors > Altitude Manager > Altitude Filter?

Usefulness and my acceptance of the locus livetracking would be bigger, if there wasn't wasted space on the target website.

+1 I had a recent help topic on this but can't now find it ;-(

quote from @Menion - "interesting, I can't simulate it with any folder. Does this happen to your will just a single folder with tracks or will all you checked?"

I just confirmed on 3.36.2.14 for 3 different folders. Summary - displayed distance is 0m when sorting by  Nearest, but non-zerp & correct when sorting by distance to Starting Point.