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[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] webpatrick:
Nice to have

Correct me if I'm wrong but in the Alert section it's possible to send an SMS or Email when entering or leaving a particular area.

Maybe it's a possibility to start an application or something else (toggle Wifi/BT) when entering or leaving a particular area.

Maybe it's an idea for a new tool.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Happy-Shrimper:
Like TrackMe, this is a fantastic piece of software. Well worth the £34.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Happy-Shrimper:
I have only installed trackme in the last few days as the live tracking in Run.GPS is a little overkill for the journey to and from work, and TrackMe fits the bill perfectly. As of yet, I haven't been able to get an alert to fire when I reach a certain point. I clicked get the location button when at a specific location and created an alert from it for about 3 locations on my journey.

Set up the sms and email addresses and message to fire, but to date, none have triggered.

I had set distance area to 0.5 miles, then expanded it to 1 mile. Should I increase the range? Typically these areas are very congested so don't pass them too quickly though.

Any suggestions?

Top piece of software though!

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
hmm...not sure about that. I wouldn't like to add too much bloatware to TrackMe. However, if there are more people interested I may look at that.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
I have never tried it with such as small distance but I think it should work. I'll do some testing tonight when I go home.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Happy-Shrimper:
Wow, now that was a quick reply! Would you recommend a larger range of say 3 miles or so?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
;)

It's up to you. It depends on what you need.

I'll let you know how is my testing tonight.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Happy-Shrimper:
Must confess, it would be a useful feature. Turn on wifi as you get home or to work and off as you leave. Turn on Silent maybe as you enter the office? Maybe someone could develop an application to trigger an event at home to put the kettle on a few miles up the road - :cool: but maybe carried away!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] juiceppc:
Guys sorry if this has been answered but I use startlogic.com as a hoster and they use Vdeck. I see a MySQL option but not sure where to go from there to setup a mysql database for the server any help would be greatly appreciated. THanks. Do I try to link the database I created to the "database.sql" file in the server files folder?

I'm getting this error when try to reach my install.php file

"The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.

The script had an error or it did not produce any output. If there was an error, you should be able to see it in the error log"
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] odie3:
About this Alert thing where it will sent a message (SMS/Email) when you are within a area. Can it send when you are going a set direction? Say I want it to send a message to my wife when I am going south (going home) but not north (when I am going to work).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Why don't you use the inside/outside feature?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] juiceppc:
Is this the stuff I'm supposed to edit in the config.php file?

// Database Information

$DBIP = "localhost";

$DBUSER = "Replace with MySQL User Name";

$DBPASS = "Replace with MySQL Password";

$DBNAME = "Replace with MySQL Database Name";

Would $DBIP = mydomain.com?

Can someone post an example of what exactly this should look like? Thanks.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] greeek:
Sorry

This has probably been covered, but I only just decided to actually install this after reading nearly the entire thread about a month ago, but... can anyone tell me roughly how much data upload etc is used each time it uploads?

I'm on a work plan, and I thought I should check before I go berko with this software - I'ts fantastic may I add!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ajs007:
Hi Guys,

I'm thinking of using Trackme for a charity run in the Summer. I'm happy with the tracking but wanted to 'spruce up' the 'sponser experience' i.e. let them go online to see the progress 'live'. Is it possible to add an additional feature into the html screen by pulling the altitude and distance travelled data to give a side profile similar to this:

http://bimrace.com/ba/race/race_map.php?race=5
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Hi,

I tested last night and it worked fine. My settings were 0.5 miles and be notified by email and sms when I was outside the target area.

Are you sure that the alert was enabled?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
hmm.. I cannot give you an exact size but every time a new position is uploaded the buffer size is around 70 bytes.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
You also need the $googleapikey key. Here is an example:

$DBIP = "myserver.test.net";

$DBUSER = "juiceppc";

$DBPASS = "juiceppcpassword";

$DBNAME = "juiceppcdatabasename";

$googleapikey = "AHBQjpZM6s9Y2DQxQAZqebFaKZyOW_BeYEGQb3qvoNuDO3zGJc12xhpe2qv8tVA";
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] w01f:
Now that would be a cool feature!!

I like the way you can hover your mouse over the elevation diagram and see the stick man cursor move over the route on the map.

I imagine elevation data would be easy to record and store in the database, but the hard part would possibly be coding the webpage to do that?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Happy-Shrimper:
Thanks for trying. I have tried again today with an increase Distance area of 10 miles and still no trigger. the position was gained by clicking assign current position and the fire event if ... is set to current position inside target area.

Maybe I would be better using outside if it fires as soon as it comes outside of that area? i.e. I go into the area and fires as I leave. Maybe I'll try that tomorrow.

Thanks for your help and excellent app.

One thought, I use Flexmail as the default messaging. Maybe that interferes and doesn't let the messages go out? Different API maybe?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jmat:
You'd probably kill your phone in less than two hours with that much data logging, as well. :(

You might want to look at a GPS data logger for what you're doing. Search for "AMOD AGL3080" on Google/Amazon. It's a small cheap data logger than lasts around 16-17 hours and logs GPS data every second... I use one for photography, but it would work really well for tracking gokarts, etc.

Plus, I'd much rather carry a $60 gadget on my belt than a $400 phone while in a gokart or where it might get hit/damaged/wet/etc. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] greeek:
Cool, so even if a trip uploaded say 50-60 points, my data transfer should only total approximately 4KB for the trip...

Does that sound right?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mcross:
web interface

hey all,

I am starting to figure out the extjs stuff. I have a working map now, if you want to check it out, go here, http:\\www.mc-consult.com/trackmeEXT

for now you have to use firefox, I must have an extra comma somewhere that is breaking Internet explorer.

keep in mind that I am still working on this so there are extra fields showing, but you will be able to get the idea. Notice that the left, right and bottom have areas for data that can be easily shown/hidden. I think there is lots of potential with this library. I need to finish the login system, and then the live tracking option, then It will be ready for first release.

let me know what you all think.

mcross
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mcross:
ajs007,

That is very cool, I will look into how this is done. but making no promises.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] GpsPasSion:
Looking good !

@jmat - for karting I would even go with a 5Hz capable logger like the Qstarz MT-Q1000 : http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=107322
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
That's correct.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
I don't think is the email client. You can also check the screen, there is a message when an alert is triggered.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
I love it!

Please let us know about any progress that you get.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] p25o1:
thanks man, last time i was worried that the battry will heat up and expload in my pocket.

60$ sounds good,,, does it come with any gps application to export or visulize the data??

if not do you recommend any? plz

thaks again your advice is what i was looking for.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ajs007:
Looking good ;-)

Is anyone experiencing Google grief with the zoom function with Firefox, or is it only with Firefox Beta 3 ?

Partial zoom (75%) give loss of Sat. photos quoting that "we are sorry, but we don't have imagery at this zoom level for this region ..."

IE can zoom in great for the same location :-/
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] greeek:
Thanks Staryon - much appreciated!!! :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Kai-Uwe:
Hope you will find the coma for the IE... :rolleyes: If you dont find it you can use this one >>> , <<< I will spend it....:D

Greetings Kai-Uwe
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] w01f:
Big thumbs up for the new look mcross! :D
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] turtle2472:
QFT!

Great work and it looks great on Safari too. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mattpark:
Cool little app...

Just tested it on my latest road trip: http://whereis.matthewpark.co.uk/

I couldn't get the upload photo function to work mind you... kept getting "Cannot copy file" errors when i tried to upload.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tinpusher:
Great program. It's been fun tinkering with it, setting it up on my own server.

On a side note, I got the subdomain problem (not displaying the arrows) to work by doing a frame redirect to the location (as opposed to setting it directly to the folder).

i.e. Frame redirect --> http://mydomain.com/trackme

I tried that before I got around to figuring out the whole "siteroot" thing.

Works great!

Thanks for all the great work!

JS
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] webpatrick:
Wow! this looks nice, can't wait for the release... maybe you can release a Beta so we can help you identify (and solve) different browser issues.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] arpy:
Pleeaaasseeee...

Please, SmartPhoneSupport, i will kill for SmartPhoneSupport...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
I would love to... but unfortunately I would have to rewrite a big part of the program just for this, because there are many controls that are not compatible with smartphones.

The problem is lately I don't even have too much time to update the current TrackMe so I don't really know if I will end up adding support for smartphones one day. I'm really sorry about that :(
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jimmydu3:
If the program could just execute programs then Phoneweaver could handle running profiles in certain areas thanks to TrackMe's alert function. Simply drive onto campus and then Phoneweaver could dim the brightness, turn off the phone, and turn on wifi. It would work b/c Phoneweaver just added the ability to launch profiles from the command line...

"\Windows\PhWeaver.exe 1nn" with the nn's being numbers in the list of profiles.

Could be a killer addition if TrackMe could launch executables as an alert option! Thanks!

Here's a link to phoneweaver..http://www.sbsh.net/product.php?id=28
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Looks interesting. I'll have a look. If there is more people interested I may add it in a future release.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] turtle2472:
Who's running/owns the www.trackme.com site? I googled "trackme" because I couldn't find the thread and found there's a site that seems to be built just for this app.

Any ideas on who's doing this?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Interesting. That website wasn't there before. I wonder if they are trying to use TrackMe's popularity for their own software. damn... I should have registered that domain.

Thanks for the information.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] turtle2472:
Seems to me you'd have an easy claim on cybersquatting if you'd like to gain control of the domain. I don't recall the whole process to get control of the domain, but seems like you'd be a shoe it to get it.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] turtle2472:
I finally installed the mapping set on my own server and it was much easier than I thought it would be. Pretty cool if you asked me. I was never able to log into the web interface on your (Louis) site for some reason to be able to view it like this. I've always had to open Google Earth of Google.com/maps. Anyway, I'm really looking forward to the updated version of the web viewer now!
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] drum:
Can anybody tell me if the problem with freezing on an Artemis was ever solved. I have exactly same problem on a T-Mobile MDA Compact III and any help would be most appreciated.

Dave
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] turtle2472:
Hey mcross, I know you said you were mainly programming for IE but I thought you might be able to correct a little glitch I see with Safari or Firefox on my Mac.

Safari:

Safari without a picture:

Firefox is the same on the Mac.

Here's IE7 in Vista:

In this one there's a lot of dead space at the bottom of the balloon too.

Also, did I miss something about the pushpin icons throughout the trip? I'm gonna head back over to the OP and see what it said about them because I don't have any pushpins on my map other than the last one.

Please don't take these points wrong, I love what you and jcleek have done with this to allow such an easy way to interface with the data.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] barky81:
Help!?! My last trip is reporting "nan miles"....

Hi, I love this software and am using it to track my exercise walk around the neighborhood.

Up till now, it has worked great...but tonight, I get back from an hourlong walk, only to see my distance reported as "nan miles" even though all the points are on the map...
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Did you check the FAQ from the first post?

Regards
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
turtle2472,

Regarding the problem with the picture not being displayed, maybe I'm wrong, but I think it's an issue with Google Maps. If the image takes a while to load, Google maps doesn't know how to calculate its height. Once is loaded, if you refresh it, it will be displayed correctly.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] c.b:
What a brilliant piece of software. Congratulations to all involved. I installed it last night and have been playing ever since. May have a go at getting my web server integrated next.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] turtle2472:
Good call. That solved it. Thanks. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] st3v3:
This is brilliant running it on the Hermes but wanted to post with the config i ended up setting up to be able to run Tomtom and the brilliant TrackMe programs as there didnt seem to be alot of info around on this type of setup.

The hermes was unable to run both tomtom and trackme so this is what i did...

Using generic Bluetooth GPS paired with my Magician

Tomtom Australia maps

and GPS gate with bluetooth server running and virtual port.

Note: i did try to run GPS2Blue but it never wanted to send a port out.

Using the Hermes (i have unlimited 3g data on this)

Paired the output from GPS gate to run trackme.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mcross:
Just so you know, I hate IE:), I only use firefox, but web applications should run on all browers, so we will have to figure out why its not working in IE.

I only have IE and Firefox installed, it is good to hear that its working on others too.

My kids roller hockey league has started, I do the website for them. http://www.wcihl.com if you care to look. It was hacked, so I have been working on it. its all fixed so I hope to start on trackme web again.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mcross:
Hello Barky81,

have you figured this out yet? I can't figure out where 'nan' would come from.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] barky81:
Not yet, but I just back from tonight's walk and it worked fine. It must be something related to the number of data points or something (the "broken" track was a much longer walk).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mcross:
where nan shows, the web code is looping through your points to calculate the total distance traveled. it is using the 'Latitude' and 'Longitude' data from the 'positions' table.

I am thinking there must be some kind of weird data in one on those column in the 'positions' table for that trip. can you look at the data for that trip?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sparrowhawk:
After a hard reset, I'm having a few problems getting trackme working again. It seems to be the NET framework cab that's causing the bother, every time I load it I get an error message, then it seems to install correctly.

As soon as I try to run trackme however, I receive a message saying key components had failed to load.

Can anyone advise please?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] drum:
Think I've tried most things, only way I've got it to work so far is with GPSGate on a 14 day trial. Are they anyother work arounds yet?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Do you have this enabled?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] Sparrowhawk:
(Further to my post above.)

Can nobody help me out on this one?

This is what I get when I install the cab file:

If I click ok it then apparently installs correctly, or so it tells me.

Then I try to run TrackMe and get this:

Followed by this:

What's going on folks?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Since the problem is related with the installation of CF3.5 I think it's better if you post the question in the general forum. Maybe more people will be able to help you with that.

Regards
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] mk1 black limited:
Recover deleted trips?

I deleted some trips from trackme the other day, and discovered they were deleted on my server as well...:-( Any way of recovering them?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] DoughtCom:
I'm almost complete with my .Net version of the PHP code. I'll release the URL later. I'm about to have to start working A LOT but I'll continue to support it when I can. I'll be releasing the Source for whoever wants to add to it or whatever once it's at least to the point of functional :)

I have it to where you can embed an iframe in whatever site you want, I have a login so that only or users you create can view your map(s) (trips) and have it to where you can delete trips and trip data.

Before I release it I want to add functionality that'll enable it to e-mail people (need to figure out my relay SMTP server) and also add a feature stylize the routes per trip. So blue for Sunday and red for Monday for instance.

Later I'll enable it to where you can overlay (include) multiple trips and do other queries on the data. We have time and location with that data that are linked to specific trips... there's LOTS of cool reports we could run. I just need to come up with more ideas and have the time to develop it :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] odie3:
So, did you figure out the problem with the style error we get when bring up a trip in map.google.com?

BTW, thanks for your site too, been fun showing Family/Friends what my new phone can done (however I think I am forever marked as a geek).
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
man... that looks awesome. I cannot wait to see that. Thanks a lot for your support.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Yes, I found the problem. I'll work on that today. I'll try to have it ready as soon as possible.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] while(!(linux)){wm}:
Staryon,

Thanks a lot for all your work. It looks better every day!

I was wondering if you've looked into a way of having TrackMe wake up the device, turn on GPS, take a fix, and then turn off the GPS again. I'm interested in leaving it running all the time in the background, and having it take a fix every 30 minutes or so. If it could wake up the device to take a fix, or at least let the device fall asleep, then i could leave it on all the time without worrying too much about my battery.

Also, what is trackme programmed to do if it cannot get a fix? is there a timeout, or does it just keep trying until the battery dies? Could you add a setting to change the timeout period?

Thanks again
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] spamenigma:
I have the o2 orbit (Artemis) running WM6, and get the same issue as Artemis, tap 'start' and it locks the mobile up whilst 'opening port...COM4:'

any advice pls?

thanks

P
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
ok, I fixed the problem with Google Maps.

KML files should now be compatible with Google Earth and Google Maps!!

You don't need to update the client. The problem was in the PHP files, so I made the changes on the server.

If you already have the kml file, you will have to re-export it again to make it work with Google Maps.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jcleek:
Can you re-upload the php files so we can all have them?
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
not sure why. I haven't been able to test it there. I know some people are using the program with bluetooth GPS and Smartphones and it's working fine.

Maybe it should something easy to fix but I don't know how to test it... could you try this program that Sherpa wrote?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=337076

Basically it will try to connect to your GPS.

Please let me know what results you get with that.

Thanks
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
I'm sorry I forgot to include it in the to-do list, but I haven't forgotten this request.

Yes, I plan to add that. It's just is a little bit more complicated, so I'm trying to do first the features that look easier.

I will also add an option in the configuration for a maximum number of retries when a timeout occurs.

Regards
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] _LEM_:
Here you are:

(only file export.php has changed)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jcleek:
Works perfectly. I especially appreciate the KML fix that makes it work directly with Google Maps.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] ghadjimitsis:
thanks for the info and software

keep up
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] tf442:
I found this thread a couple weeks ago and have been following it every day. The program looks great. I have my money ready to donate as soon as you get Trackme to work on my smartphone. (T-Mobile Dash). Thanks for all your hard work.

Tim
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] daesimps:
Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view), I now have a Kaiser and it works perfectly.

I am looking to download the server side stuff so that I can host it on my own Linux box. That's next on my list of stuff to do.
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] irresisti:
This program looks really neat. I was looking for a program like this and found many but never tryed any of them cause they did not seem to be the right software for my kaiser.

This one looks good and I will give it a try now. :)
[Windows Mobile Apps and Games] jcleek:
Ok Staryon, a couple of things:

1) You put a copyright notice on every GPS plotted point. So now those of us who are using this in any form other than on your server in the manner in which you developed are in violation of that copyright, including doughcom. Any customizations of the output are in conflict with your copyright. Certainly it is within your rights to copyright your work but is it necessary to copyright the output?

2) I spent most of the morning figuring out how to do something that really was pretty simple. Using the Google maps API I got a little mashup going. Check this out:

My custom tracking web page

All you need to do is get a Google Maps API key and then you can use this code to set up your own page:

You need to change two things: the path to the kml file and the API key entries. Other than that upload it to your site and customize away.

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