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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dutchnomad:
Hi I noticed that for all the loggings (not offline) the speed attribuut has no value and that the database doesn't allow 'Null'. Could that be the problem? Something changed in that respect?

I saw that the execution result of the sql statements was not checked in the script. I added that and returned an error code Result:9 and die-ed the php script. Then the a problem was visible in the client (although the response 9 was not known). After thsi the position was stored offline by the client and i uploaded it and all went well. BUT: the speed had a value (sp=0) insted of no value (sp=)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
yeah, same problem here. That's a bug in the web viewer that has been there for a long time. Unfortunately one of the persons who wrote it (mcross) said that he would fix that problem, but we haven't heard from him again. Same with the other person (jcleek)

Now that there is a different trackme user who is changing the interface so once he finishes it I will try to fix that bug.

Sorry about that.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
It doesn't allow NULLS, but the default value in the database for that field is 0, so you don't need to include that field.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Yes, I have thought about that several times. The problem is it will take some extra space in the screen. I will think about it once again... :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Thanks a lot for your comments!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
I found something strange with what I do with the speed. However, I think it should still work.

I will fix that just in case that is the reason is not working for you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dutchnomad:
I see indeed that the default is 0, but the question remains why the insert statement fails and also why the client doesn't pass the speed (I was driving my car)?

Jan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
I found today that my speed and average speed are both -0 since updating the client.. Is there a server change? I compared the files to the latest server.zip I just downloaded and they seem to be the same.

I did turn on some of the new options, such as storing the battery, signal strength if CID used, store CID/Str in database..

I was using GPS this morning, as I do every morning.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dutchnomad:
Other problems new version?

Besides the problems with the sp value this afternooon I also encountered problems with uploading stored positions. A couple of them went ok but then the process failed despite of several other attempts. I loooked in the file with storedpositions and saw some strange things:

[22-10-08 8:45:01] $GPGGA,064440.000,5159.8456,N,00422.9026,E,1,07,1.0,23.5,M,47.1,M,,0000*60|51,9974266666667|4,38171|23,5|22-10-08 8:45:01

[22-10-08 11:35:01] $GPGGA,093425.008,5159.7775,N,00422.6472,E,1,04,3.3,-132.6,M,47.1,M,,0000*79|51,9962916666667|4,37745333333333|-132,600006103516|1-1-01 0:00:00

The first line is from this morning, made with the old version. the second line is from after i installed the new client. Please notice the end of the line (don't forget to scroll to the right to see it all). As you can see there is no date or time in the last line like in the first line. I am not sure how the storedpositions are handled and it could be that this is intended behaviour. Can you explain please?

Jan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
yes, that problem is related with what khaytsus mentioned.

I'll fix that too.

Sorry about these problems guys
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] timoline:
Hi,

Like Kaytus said there is a problem with Speed and average speed,

I used the new web viewer(restyle_v1.3),

(speed is 0(zero) in database)

Br,
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
New version available!

- An error was introduced with the latest version. 'Speed' value was not uploaded correctly.

People using their servers:

File requests.php has changed

You also need to run this query:

ALTER TABLE `positions` CHANGE `Altitude` `Altitude` DOUBLE NULL DEFAULT '0',
CHANGE `Speed` `Speed` DOUBLE NULL DEFAULT '0'

I hope everything works fine now.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] while(!(linux)){wm}:
This would be great. If either the minimum satellites are not reached OR no satellites have been found within the specified time, it pulls from CellID.

The newest version does not seem to disconnect the gps after each fix, even when the option to disconnect is selected. i'll go back to an older version for now.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johnfosteruk:
Loving the software staryon. and the new version is nice and quick, but when its trying to upload positions to my server i get "error uploadlastposition: InvalidCastException"

i updated the requests.php file and ran the SQL query, but to no avail. everything else is spiffing mate apart from that
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johnfosteruk:
i've just completely removed the server and reinstalled it with the current server download. - same problem.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] turtle2472:
When I run this query I get an error back that says:

Because I don't update my SQL database right away when those changes come I'm just now getting to this update. I just ran the query from here and it went fine. Did something go wrong?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johnfosteruk:
instead of ALTER TABLE `Positions` CHANGE `Altitude` `Altitude` DOUBLE NULL DEFAULT '0',

CHANGE `Speed` `Speed` DOUBLE NULL DEFAULT '0'

run:

ALTER TABLE `positions` CHANGE `Altitude` `Altitude` DOUBLE NULL DEFAULT '0',

CHANGE `Speed` `Speed` DOUBLE NULL DEFAULT '0'
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
ok guys, I had to upload another version (.108)

I also changed the file requests.php

It's the last time I don't test Trackme long enough before releasing it.

I don't like to release buggy things.

Actually the first time I released TrackMe nobody had any problems because I made a lot of testing.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] turtle2472:
Thanks for the fast reply. I'm actually really proud of myself because I just figured out that the "P" was capitalized and shouldn't be. This is the first SQL error I figured out on my own. I've always viewed SQL kinda like most teen boys see Jason Voorhees at Camp Crystal Lake. :\
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johnfosteruk:
fantastic, it uploads positions fine now.

problem appears to be with the viewer (i upped the new requests.php): I load the page and it just shows me a world map.

when i check the DB its shows the trip (as it does on the viewer) but there's no positions actually been added
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Do you mean that nothing is added to the Positions table?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johnfosteruk:
yup that's absolutely right :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
hmm... it seems that the insert statement that is executed inside the requests.php file is returning an error.

Unfortunately I don't capture that error so I don't know why is failing.

Is anybody else having this problem with their servers and the latest version?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
johnfosteruk,

This is how the Positions table should look like on your server.

Please double check is identical:
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johnfosteruk:
erm....... that was me being a numpty.

when i reinstalled the server. I chose upgrade as install type presuming it would update the DB with the new tables (battery status etc) but it didn't. I dropped the DB and reran it and bob is your uncle.

thanks anyway for your patience :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
not a problem. I'm glad it works now.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] johnfosteruk:
incidentally fella, where does the battery status info etc supposed to show, its not in the bubble on the map viewer
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Yep, 108 worked for me tonight! Good speeds, etc.

Hey, I've been toying with GPSGate uploading data to the TrackMe server. I have a 'conversion' script, but I'm hosing up something with the speed.. What speed is the TrackMe server expecting? I thought it was kilometers per hour, and GPSGate outputs Knots per Hour, which I converted, but the speeds were off.

GPSGate isn't as reliable as uploading data as TrackMe, so it's probably pointless that I tinker with it any more. Plus TrackMe is much more flexable, offline data, etc..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
staryon,

Small feature request.. Is it possible to make the Auto trip name configurable? For me, I'd like to be able to make it just Auto_MM.DD.YY so all trips on a day are on one track.

Especially nice if the web viewer is able to only view N hours of data rather than the whole timespan, but not essential (for me.. :)

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] while(!(linux)){wm}:
Sept 12th, 2007?

For some reason, every placemark in the KML files generated by the server have a time stamp of

<TimeStamp><when>2007-09-12T15:07:27Z</when></TimeStamp>

I'm not sure what the significance of this date is, but if the server was fixed to generate the correct KML time stamp for each fix, we could use the timeline feature of google earth.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] humanjoy:
I'm using the latest version of TrackMe (downloaded 23-Oct-2008) and setup my own server.

I'm not able to upload photo, it's giving an error saying I must install NetCF35 to view the error message, any help please ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dutchnomad:
cleaning offline positions

Due to the problems of yesterday it seems that I have not uploadable positions in the database (local.sdf). Does anybody knows how to clear this database since the upload always aborts now?

Thanks,

Jan

It seems to work now correctly with the new version, the db update and the new requests.php. Conclusion: forget this :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dutchnomad:
Small change client

In the data that is send by the client I see that the latitude and longitude are specified in different accuracy (all the result of probably the conversion from the NMAE sentence information to the DecimalDegree format):

Log: Array

(

[a] => upload

=> dutchnomad

[p] => djoser

[lat] => 51.7965633333333

[long] => 4.66522833333333

[do] => 2008-10-22 17:28:8

[tn] => Overige

[ang] => 65.558

[db] => 8

)

I would like to suggest to find out what accuracy is required (for lat, long but also angle, speed) and format the information accordingly on the client before sending.

My suggestion:

Lat 999.999999

Lon 999.999999

Angle/Course: 999

Speed: 999

How about this?

Jan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] police22:
It double posted

*DELETE*
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] police22:
Error after 10-22-08 Update

After yesterdays update I have not been able to upload to my server. It has worked flawlessly since you started this untill now..

Get error:

Error UploadLastPosition: InvalidCastException

Anyone know why...

Using this on HTC Kaiser 8925

Worked fine yesterday till I updated..

Thanks for the help..
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
The web viewer doesn't show it yet. Only in GE
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
meters/second
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Good idea. Added to to-do list.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
I just tested it and yes, I have no idea why I have that. Probably some testing that I did. I will be removing that soon.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Probably a permissions issue on your server.

Install the messages description package first to see what's the error message. You can find it in the FAQ.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Yes, I was thinking about that yesterday. I will change the lat/long for the next version to that format.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Get version .108 that fixes that problem.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] police22:
Well dont know why or how, now but after a few more soft-resets and tinkering.. it came up to do another update and after it installed.. It works now...

Maybe the update yesterday failed? oh well its working.. Thanks;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] while(!(linux)){wm}:
Leave the timestamp in, just make it the correct date and time. The timeline feature in google earth could be really useful when viewing months worth of data.

Thanks Staryon!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] turtle2472:
I had this same issue and had to have my server support department make a permissions change. Every thing's fine now. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] humanjoy:
I have .NETCF35 installed as per your Installation guide but it still didn't show the error msg.

I have chmod 777 to the pics folder and all...any clue ?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] turtle2472:
^^^^

This isn't a folder permissions issue but server security. I believe in my case the server admins had to make changes to .htaccess and some other setting. I don't know the full details of what they did, but it worked.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] humanjoy:
I've install the message description package, now i can see the error, it's complaining about 500-Internal Server Error...

Please help...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] macsoft:
Hi,

I have a spare P3600 I wanna use to locate my car, in case it's stollen.

this aplicattion sounds it can do the trick.

I only wnat to use the sms funtionallity. When I send an sms to the device, it sends me back an sms with the coordinates (or googlemaps link). And it does.. but with some problems.

First, it does not sends me a normal sms. Its a "network message" so it doesn't stores in me received sms folder.

Then, the googlemaps link it sends seems truncated, so when I click it, it only shows me the googlemaps main page...

I get "error generating short googlemaps link" on the Trackme app, so it could me something related to that.

so.. since GPRS connetion is too expensive over here, and i only wanna use the SMS feature, it doesn't work for me :(

Any thoughts?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] macsoft:
hum...

So I found out that for generating the short link, it needs GPRS connection.

But I would like to use it without consuming GPRS, cause it's too expensive...

any thoughts?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
I think you are getting that 'network message' because you are sending an SMS to the same phone. It should work ok if you use a different one.

Regarding the generation of short links, TrackMe will always try to create them (you will need internet access), if it's not possible, it will send the email/sms with normal links. What I don't know is why those long links are truncated with your phone.

I am going to add an option to enable/disable the generation of short links, so you will be able to use it with your phone without needing internet access.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] turtle2472:
I'm pretty sure it's the same issue I faced with my server. I use a host so I let those server admins handle the issue and let them correct it. The issue was the phone uploading to the server and it needing to be enabled for the "trackme" subdomain.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] macsoft:
I'm using two devices. thr P3600 is the one with TrackMe installed and working, and I got a Diamond to receive the data.

The reason why the address is truncated is (i think) because it is a Netwok Message, and not an sms, there is no way for me to read the full message. the message is only readable in the buble, and since it's not an sms, it doesn't stay on my incoming sms folder. Since the bubble space is limited, the message get truncated.

Is there anyway that you can include the short link generator in the app, so that it could generate the short address without getting GPRS data? That would defenetly solve my problem. OR turning the Network Message into a real SMS... but that coud be operator ou country related (i'm from Portugal).

Another situation: since I'm planning on using it on my car, if stolen, and left in a garage with no GPS signal, when I send an SMS to the device requesting it's location, it will only send me back the info, if the car ever comes out of the garage... wouldn't it be better to send the last GPS active location?(like those anti-thief systems do) OR.... whe could have a text trigger in the sms to upload the track file to server (in that situation I wouldn't obviously mind the GPRS expense).

AND... another cool thing I would love... Another SMS text trigger to take a picture and upload it, (or MMS it), so I can see who is stealing my car! wouldn't it be great? :)

My favorite would be: (text triggers sent to device by SMS)

trigger 1: send SMS back with short link (generated with no need for GPRS)

trigger 2: send MMS back with short link (generated with no need for GPRS) AND photo of the driver (since I could point the cameras device to the drivers seat)

trigger 3: upload track file to server (it would cost me GPRS but I could use it to track a thief where there was none GPS location)

If all that was possible, it would be the best app ever! And i could give real use to an old and crashed P3600 device.

PS: Another thing it would be cool: link to gps app with favorite with those coordinates. so i can track the thief by car.

I would click the SMS link, and it would add a favorite to my TOM TOM, and i could imediatlly track me way to the my stolen car

EDIT:

Just remembered a way so it could have short links (not as short as those you use, but short) and NOT connect to GPRS.

the link would be just something like http://yoursite.com?x=11111&y=22222 (x and y the coordinates) and that webpage whould relay the info converting it to a googlemaps link.

EDIT2:

Is there a way to send SPEED info to googlemaps? It would be nice to know if the car is moving, or stopped when I get the position link by SMS
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xdaking:
Nice thread, thank you very much
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
ok guys, I updated the server files with the modifications that pammetje made.

He also added a few new features for live tracking.

I have also updated my server with the new viewer, so now it becomes the official one.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] turtle2472:
Would it be possible to add a page refresh to the normal non-live viewing page? It seems like it should be there so the user wouldn't have to manually update the track page if they were seeing you move through the trip. This would be a user selectable option with the refresh rate also being user selectable but defaulted to 60-120 seconds.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Apie!:
I love this program! My girlfriend has the annoying habit of calling me during my trip home from work. I go by train and usually take a nap during that trip, so basically she wakes me just to ask me "are you on your way back home yet?". Now she can just sms me and receive my whereabouts by mail/sms.

btw, I found that it's possible to enter multiple notification email addresses when you use a comma to seperate them. For me, that's a good thing, but you might want to limit the max number of email addresses.

I just donated 20 btw.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] macsoft:
if there is a new version, why thoes the prog says "no new updates available"?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Are you thinking that the recent discussion of the server? He has updated the server, but has not updated the client for about 3-4 days.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wally80:
That's the worst use I've ever heard! (:-D Joking)

Dan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Thanks for the feedback and for the donation! I always love to hear how people use TrackMe :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Yep, my wife can see where I am when I'm out geocaching, and knows where to send people in case I don't come home ;-)

Just make sure that you're not at the other girlfriends house when your girlfriend tracks you!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tichuiche:
Hi,

This new version does not function with the navigator “Netscape V7.1” posting is except standard, example here: http://apu.mabul.org/up/apu/2008/10/26/img-234936ctlvq.gif.

With IE7, it's OK

Into the French translation, small errors slipped:

Rèsumè du trajet == Résumé du trajet

Durèe totale == Durée totale

Options d'affichage personnalisè: == Options d'affichage personnalisé:

Choix des unitès == Choix des unités

Thank you very much for all carried out work, this software is really formidable
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] macsoft:
any thoghts on this yet?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] macsoft:
another thing:

When the pocket pc with trackme receives the SMS message to trigger it, it allways wakes up the device. since the trackMe app makes the device allways stay on, the device never turns off the screen again.

I use DeltaLock to lock the screen, but the screen's light still stays on.

Any chance that the app turns off the screen after receving receiving the SMS?

That would resolve this problem.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
macsoft,

sorry.. I think your ideas are great but at this moment I don't plan to add more functionality to the anti-theft feature.

As I said a few times I think this should be a completely different application because I don't want to convert TrackMe into bloatware.

I may write that application once I finish with some of the pending requests that I have for TrackMe and if I see a lot of demand for an application like this. I will consider your ideas once I start working on that.

Regards
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Thanks for the feedback. I just told the developer.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] kwikky:
<never mind/>
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Apie!:
There are two ways to counter this:

1) "Nah, that's just a glitch in the system, honey. It's not 100% fail-safe you know :rolleyes:"

2) make sure you keep the other girlfriends house really close to yours so it looks like it's the same spot :D

JK, I would _never_ do that :cool:

Anyway, I 'm curious about the following:

1)

I enabled "Use Cell ID if required satellites not reached"

I enabled "Start tracking if positions are not available"

I disabled "... and keep tracking after are available"

I'm at the office.

I receive an sms with a trigger which causes an event

TrackMe recognizes the trigger and starts tracking to get the GPS position

TrackMe logs "No valid positions available"

TrackMe logs "Will try later when GPS positions are available"

TrackMe keeps on tracking to get the current position but doesn't get any.

Why doesn't TrackMe fallback to the Cell ID to determine the position?

2) If I use GPS as source and enable "Store Cell ID/Signal Str. in TrackMe database", does the GPS position of te current Cell get stored as well?

Edit:

I'm still at the office and started a new trip using GPS with "Use Cell ID if required satellites not reached" enabled about 10 minutes ago, but it keeps on searching for satellites instead of using the Cell ID.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Clear your cache. :D That's just that it hasn't loaded the right CSS yet.

EDIT: Netscape? Really??
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Me Too on this... I sent myself a test trackme message and never got a response.. I figured I'd look into it later. 3 or so days later I finally did a GPS track and blam, got the email as soon as it got a fix.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Apie!:
^^ Indeed, I started another trip during lunchtime and the email, which should've been sent this morning when I got the SMS, was sent as soon as I got a GPS fix. I have no issues when I only use Cell ID as source BTW.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] dutchnomad:
New server lookandfeel Firefox

Hi, in my FireFox the new layout for the server is not displaying correctly, everything is 'moved' to the left and the map is barely visible. I have Firefox 3.0.3

See attachment for a screen shot.

In Ie all looks ok.

Jan
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tichuiche:
Thank's for this info,

Sorry, it's OK now !

Yes ! Why not ? :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] timoline:
I disabled the margin-right in layout.css.

This way you can have the nav-menu float left or right

#content{

/***margin-right: 165px;***/

height: 100%;

}
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
yeah, this was already discussed. The option '"Use Cell ID if required satellites not reached" is only used when you have a fix.

Something that I will add is to use the cell id even when a position is not available. This should resolve your problem.

Yes.