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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
:D that's funny. Actually it would be easy to do!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] turtle2472:
Man, I feel like we've been having a reunion here in this thread lately. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
By the way, I plan to release version 6.x soon.

Nothing new... it's just I made a lot of cleaning in my code and have reorganized everything for making updates easier.

But first I have to test it...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nhvoltagenh:
I would like 2 things.

1) The ability to send a destination location to the web viewer from my phone.

Say someone is following my movement.

which is great, but they dont know where im going.

This way they can also see my destination, and how far away i am.

2) The ability to mark a destination on the webviewer.

again this way i can see where someone is, and see how far they are.

now i dont mean how far they are with distance and this and that.

just a simple destination dot, and visually you can see the gap closing.

as well, if i am heading somewhere, i can send the location to the web viewer, and a dot will appear. then the viewers can see where i am in real time and where im going.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] luiggi:
I just have read the first post and looks very neat!! Congratulations for this great application staryon !!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
You're welcome. Enjoy it!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] morfeass:
Requirements of the installation package

Dear jcleek,

One quick question please.

May I use SQL Server 2005 instead of MySQL for the installation package in order to TrackMe access my server???

Is there any problem???

Thank you in andvance
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khoury4:
Staryon, thanks for this app, it is awesome. I like the new feature which allows you to see your "live" location on google maps from your phone.

I have a couple of requests/questions:

- Is it possible to show the live gps trail from your phone?

- I would also like to be able to see the live track of someone else from my phone.

- I second the request for being able to show the destination.

- I also like the request to see your friends locations.

- Is it possible to save the tracks in Google Earth and view them individually later?

Keep up the good work on this app, it keeps getting better and better. We are putting it to the test this weekend. We are going sailing and my wife wants to be able to see where we are while she is on land.

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

- TrackMe will detect if connection to bluetooth GPS has been lost.

- Main core functions have been rewritten to support easier future updates. Program is now better structured and a lot of cleaning has been done.

- GPS is now independent from Tracking. You can start your GPS without tracking. This is useful if you want to force an update or use Live Tracking on a map without tracking.

- Fixed problem when using Cell ID tracking on my server and using Google db. It stopped working a couple of months ago, so I added an workaround to make it work (something must have been changed on my server configuration)

- When uploading a position, the timer is reset. This is useful if uploading a position takes a long time. In previous versions if this happened, 2 positions were uploaded almost consecutively.

- Tons of fixes!

Hopefully this version doesn't introduce new bugs. However, I have changed so many things that who knows...

If you guys find something that was working before and it doesn't with this one, please let me know.

Enjoy!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dtrieb:
Great the new Version!

Here 2 things that would be great:

On the Live Map a sign that show what used: GPS oR CellID

An an easy change for different server. (p.e. Select between you Server and a private one)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] iggy:
staryon, I have not paid much attention to Trackme for awhile because it lacked the ability to show the tracking directly on the mobile but Trackme has come a long way and I am happy to be using this excellent software now.

I also second the motion to have the actual tracking shown on the mobile tracking page, my reason for this would be if you are in a foreign country and you are looking for someplace/or just sight seeing but now you need to get back to the hotel you can just retrace your tracking.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] hyachts:
Not sure what's going on, but this app hangs every time I start tracking. I have it set to use a CellID if GPS is not available, and I'm indoors right now so it times out, gets the CellID, converts it to a position and then, right after the "uploading" entry it hangs up. The Windows "working" icon comes up and spins for a second or two, then freezes, and the application becomes unresponsive. I can quit the app using the X or HTC task manager, but something is clearly still running in the background because the phone is very slow afterwards. A soft reset clears things up. Any ideas?

EDIT: So it appears to be related to CellID only. I had it use GPS only and it updated fine. Note that even with the CellID tracking it does appear to send the position if I let it go for a bit, but the program doesn't unfreeze in any reasonable amount of time (I've let it go for ten minutes or so).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Paulie89:
Just want to let you know I use it daily and it's a great piece of software. Thanks for that!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Could you send me your config.dat file located on your TrackMe folder?

I will try to do some testing using your settings to see if I can reproduce the error.

Email:

http://luisespinosa.com/contact_eng.html
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
You're welcome! I'm glad you find it useful.

;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
By the way, I started working today in the tracking log for the Live Map.

I hope to have something by the end of the week.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] vatzec:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=4481514&postcount=71
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
New version available!

- Added tracking log for Live Map

There are some restrictions though. It seems that Google Map checks how many requests are made from a single IP address.

In order to generate a path I need to pass in the URL a list of positions. I cannot pass a huge list of positions because the URL size is limited.

On the other hand, it seems that Google tracks how many positions have been passed and after a certain number, it will block you and you won't be able to get more maps.

I had to reset my router a few times because of that.

For those reasons, the maximum number of points in a path that I am passing is 10. I have also increased the interval of updating to 45 seconds.

I had to add those limitations just in case Google decides to ban my site id because of too much traffic.

Let's see how it goes... if everything goes ok, I will be removing some of those limitations.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
New version available

- Fixed problem when the option to use the Cell ID if GPS was not available was enabled. This was causing to try to read the Cell ID every 5s if for any reason failed. For this reason, the application became unresponsive.

- Other minor fixes
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
New version available

- Some more cleaning and code reorganizing.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mvmpy:
Hi Staryon,

thank you so much for this app. It is really great. It works just fine on my Kaiser. Thank you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] a_yacoub1:
gps tracking device

i need to purchase a device and use it in my car so is there any recomendation to buy some product

cheape and have good performance and integrated with trackme server

for life time use
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xda-kungfu:
crash, slow loading and default zoom

For those who have there own display server. . . . . .

If anyone is having problems with getting existing trips (i.e. TrackMe crashes)

Try adding this to the top of the php files e.g. requests.php

Rather than having just:

<?php

Change it to:

<?php error_reporting (E_ALL ^ E_NOTICE);

This may fix other stuff too like uploading pics. Add it to all PHP files.

Also for those who are experiencing slow loading of maps it could be due to the number of positions in the trip.

You can halve this by just mapping the odd numbers.

Try adding this to line 1125 in index.php

AND MOD(ID,2)=1

i.e change this:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM positions WHERE FK_Users_ID='$ID' AND FK_Trips_ID='$trip' AND DateOccurred BETWEEN '$startday' AND '$endday' ORDER BY DateOccurred");

to this:

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM positions WHERE FK_Users_ID='$ID' AND FK_Trips_ID='$trip' AND DateOccurred BETWEEN '$startday' AND '$endday' AND MOD(ID,2)=1 ORDER BY DateOccurred");

Now for a question;

Does anyone know how to change the default zoom for Goggle maps?

I want the trip to be loaded at the optimum level. i.e. the maximum zoom where you can still see the whole trip.

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] sciacca75:
MissingMethodException

TrackMe.exe

MissingMethodException

Impossibile trovare il file o l'assembly 'System.Data.SqlServerCe, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=3BE235DF1C8D2AD3' oppure una delle sue dipendenze.

in f.a()
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
As far as I know there are not specific incompatible models with TrackMe.

If you have any problems it should be because of the configuration.

Touch screen devices should be easier to handle with TrackMe, but non touch screen Smartphones work as well.

You can use it with PDAs that have an integrated or bluetooth GPS.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Did you install SQL Server on your PDA?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Thanks for that, but maybe it would be better if you post it in the User Development thread.

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

- Fixed bug when using GPS Intermediate Driver. It may cause TrackMe to freeze in some situations.

Hopefully it's fixed... I have to keep testing on this.

PS: I changed my nick ;)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xda-kungfu:
New version install

Can new versions be installed on top of existing versions. i.e. will settings be deleted or saved when the old version is removed?

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Yes, settings will not be deleted.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] xda-kungfu:
upgrade

Just tested the upgrade and it appears to keep the original settings
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] a_yacoub1:
can i use trackme server with gps device in my car not mobile phone with gps

integrated

i want to buy gps device integrated with track me???
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Hi a_yacoub1,

I'm sorry but TrackMe only works with Windows Mobile devices (touchscreen and smartphones PDAs)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
This is brilliant - any idea of the amount of data it uploads/downloads when live tracking? Me and a friend are planning a Euro roadtrip next year and I'd like to be able to provide a live feed of where in the alps we are to friends and family, however roaming data charges will more than likely be prohibitively expensive... I'll probably look into local sim cards for the countries we're in, but any idea on the amounts of data...?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Check the FAQ, there are some estimates there.

http://www.luisespinosa.com/trackme_eng.html#S5

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmbillings:
Ahh, exactly what I was looking for - apologies, I should have found that myself!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Lem,

Not sure when this started happening, but the last few versions I've seen seem to be very likely to "lose connection to GPS" and that's end of story, it stops logging until you manually re-start it with the blue icon on the main TrackMe screen.

Perhaps this is intentional to a degree, but can you re-try to connect to the GPS? I never have a problem actually reconnecting to the GPS, just it seems for whatever reason it loses connection temporarily.

I'll experiment some to see if I can figure out what's causing it, but I think regardless TrackMe attempting to reconnect would be a good thing, perhaps every time interval that it'd take a reading? Or a separate fixed value would be fine, every 15s or something.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Hi khaytsus,

Do you use a bluetooth GPS?

I think the timeout that I specified was 15s. If during that time TrackMe doesn't receive any data from the GPS, it will disconnect.

Yes, I thought about the reconnect thing. I will try to add it soon.

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Yep, bluetooth GPS. That'd be cool, not sure why it seems like it's doing this now and it never did before, but I'll look forward to an update in this regard. :) In the meanwhile I'll just keep an eye on it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Maybe it was doing it, but TrackMe was not notified so it seemed that it was still connected. :confused:

By the way, does Google database works ok for you on your server?

They have changed the protocol and I haven't been able to make it work since then.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
Yeah, actually it's fine here, not sure what's up with why it stopped working for you, I haven't touched any of the cell code in a long time. Looks like cellid_google was last touched 8/2008 on my server. I actually haven't synced up server software with yours for quite a while now. I did a bit of modification to yours a while back for something and now I'd have to do patch/merge ;-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
hey khaytsus,

Do you think you can send me a PM with a link to your page so I can do some testing?

Also could you send me a copy of your cellid_google.php5 file?

Thanks a lot!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dtrieb:
Hi!

I think there is a bug in the new Version.

If GPS isn`t enabled, an you have select GPS and not CELL ID and you press the button to show you live positon the program crashed. Tested on 2 device!

I think you have for the first live posion request Cell ID.

So i would also great to write in the live Map what's used: (Cell ID or GPS)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mvmpy:
Hi LEM,

ones again thank you for this super app. I have one question that maybe was already asked before. Is there a way to export the offline data to a route.kml without having to upload it to the server? Because there might be more than one trip you would to store but separatly in a area where you don´t have internet access for maybe several days (desert).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
I have tried it but it seems to work on mine.

Do you think you can send me your config.dat file so I can test it here?

http://www.luisespinosa.com/contact_eng.html

Basically as soon as your start the program, do you click on the button to show your live position?

Thanks!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
No, I'm sorry. Offline data is useless until is uploaded to the server.

We used to have a Local and Remote mode in TrackMe long time ago, but it was removed after some discussions in the forum.

Cheers.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mvmpy:
Thank you LEM for your quick answer.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Dtrieb:
Yes that's right!

I send you the config.dat ... and then you can look.

Also btw. an idea:

What do you think about the possible to Twitter you current position, as Link on googlemaps, as Coordinates, as text?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Constantinff:
Last several days i was testing the program, and I have some trouble in uploading data. TrackMe was running for 30min and after that i uploaded the offline data to my server, but only 3 positions was uploaded, and in the log file i see a lot more than 3 positions.

Where might be the problem , and if the log file is more correct how can i upload data from it?

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Hi Dtrieb,

I haven't received the file. Did you send it?

yeah, the twitter thing is on my to-do list.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
What version are you running?

I had to remove the feature to log positions to a file some time ago, so I'm wondering how you are doing that.

It's hard to tell which is the reason. Maybe your positions didn't have the minimum required number of satellites, or some positions were skipped because they are too close... it depends how is your configuration.

The best thing that you can do is to look at the TrackMe window to see what's going on.

Hope it helps.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] optikalmouse:
How to receive the information on route distance on google earth?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
That information is not shown there.

However, if you have some experience with PHP it shouldn't be too complicated to add. You only need to modify the export.php

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Constantinff:
Is there any difference between using Screen off button or pressing Turn Off button on the phone which sleeps the phone?

And usually when i periodically check if the coordinates have been saved they are saved or skipped on some reason, but if i put the phone in my pocket and dont check it - nothing is saved ... i dont thing that it looses signal because it works fine if i'm walking 10 mins (for example) , and after that check what have been saved.

About the log file - it was my mistake...

What is the difference between track marked with arrow315.png icon (or any other arrow) and with mm_20_gray.png (this is by default)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Pressing the power button will turn off your device and it will probably turn off the GPS as well.

Didn't you check the window after those 10 minutes? There it should tell you what happened.

Could you please elaborate? I'm not sure if I understand.

Regards
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Constantinff:
If i check it rapidly everything is OK

I always use Screen off , the problem not in this.

About the icons you can check here

http://constantin-ff.info/trackme/index.php

there are several gray icons, Why?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
I didn't write the web viewer but I guess is because those positions doesn't have direction information included so they are shown as regular icons.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
New version available

- Live Map. Fixed bug when using Cell ID if GPS fix was not available. In some cases the program could crash. (Thanks to Dtrieb for his help and provided information about this problem)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Thanks for your ideas.

Regarding the "Find Closest Buddies" option... this is something that I added just for fun. Nothing too sophisticated. In the future (I hope) we'll have the ability to share specific trips with friends or family, have public tracks and many other new options. When that happens this option will be completely changed.

Cheers
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
New version available

- Live map. Error messages are now displayed on the screen.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Tigggger:
Just to report that I've been having this problem too since upgrading to the newer version (the one with the new bluetooth icon at the top) and keep getting 'Connection to GPS Lost'

Had been working flawlessly until this point tracking for days non-stop, but now can't seem to get it to stay on for very long.

I can't find anything I'm doing at my end to cause it, normally the program starts, minimises and I never look at it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Laos101:
CDMA support yet?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
As far as I know it's not possible yet. Does My location on Google Maps works for you?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nhvoltagenh:
Um, I am running this on a touch pro... CDMA aka BELL Canada

been working fine since day 1.

Data is data.

CDMA is just how the unit talks to the provider.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Are you sure is not using the GPS or IP address information?

Last time that I tried Google Maps on a CDMA network (Verizon) it didn't work.

Anyway, if it works and you know a way of reading the Cell ID on a CDMA network, please let me know.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] nhvoltagenh:
ah i see what your saying. cell tower based locations..

my bad, ya that doesnt work.

sorry i was thinking you guys ment something else.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] drboblj:
Does trackme work on windows mobile 6.5?

I can't get it to work, just get the error about sql server. Maybe SQL Server 3.5 doesn't work with 6.5???
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] khaytsus:
You have installed the SQL Server 3.5? AFAIK it doesn't come with most stock roms, but often does on non-lite cooked roms. You'll want to verify that.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Thanks a lot man! Check your PM. I just sent you the files.

Regards
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
EDITED.

I got it to work! I forgot to set the variable for the map type in the file config.php.

It looks great!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Awesome. Looks very nice. Thanks a lot for your help man.

This weekend I'm going to work on the new version and in the documentation. I will include the different ways that you have for viewing maps.

So far we have:

- Directly from Google Earth

- From Google maps, specifying the URL of the KML file.

- Using the browser with your module.

By the way, people who are using my server for storing the data can now use this module. You just need to go here:

http://luisespinosa.com/trackme/index.php
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wafwot:
My attempt

I was playing around with a user login interface this morning, too.

I created a separate table so you can create "non-tracking" users, like friends and family. It also informs you of incorrect logins.

Kinda rough... but attached is what I worked on.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Thanks wafwot!! Great idea.

hey guys, I love all these contributions. It would be great that TrackMe can have all kind of custom plugins from many different users in the future.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] wizzzard:
This thread and app are one of the best examples of XDA-Developers. There is a true sense of community development at work. I particularly would like to thank staryon and jcleek for their tireless input.

I have a limited 15Mb webspace supplied by my ISP but they do not allow me to use php or any other server scripts so I am limited to simple html only. The above url you have made available fits my needs exactly.

Once again thank you.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Thanks a lot wizzzard. I really appreciate your comments.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] adebilloez:
Thanks! in that way, I'm missing something: how upload to MySQL is working for GPS point ?

user/password error message is coming from TrackMe so I guess TrackMe assume that it's not able to "upload" data (is with help of PHP server scripting ????)...where is the difficulty that your great app encounter..my god, can I help my Kaiser ;-)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MPIIIMan:
Well I've been digging through the code for a couple hours now.

Trying to figure out the best way to implement better security, but at the same time make it so alot of code doesn't have to change.

One thing I'm running into. All passwords that are stored in the database have to be MD5 encrypted. I can easily write a script to update everyone's database.

But it's going to take me more time then I expected to finish this.

I expect I will be done tomorrow sometime.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] MPIIIMan:
Staryon I see you added altitude and speed.

Is this something that will be passed in via the URL to request.php?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
That's alright. Take your time. We can do this step by step. I will release my new version tomorrow, and we can be modifying it gradually.

Don't worry about writing the script to convert to MD5. I will come up with something.

I will also change my application to send the passwords already encrypted.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Yes, they are passed via the URL.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
adebilloez, just be double check. Did you create a folder called 'routes' inside the folder where you have all the PHP files?

The file upload.php stores there the KML files received from TrackMe.