OwnTracks Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Any alternatives to Life360/FindMy?

  The only private alternatives are going to be self hosted and will require some technical skill. See owntracks for details. Source: 11 months ago

• Trying to make a pair of compasses that always point to each other

  On your side, you need some way to be tracked. Easy solution is an app on your phone, I like OwnTracks as a privacy-respecting option. Source: about 1 year ago

• Privacy-focused Vehicle Tracking Tool?

  Sounds like owntracks with a android headunit https://owntracks.org/. Source: about 1 year ago

• Updating location on Google maps

  OwnTracks is app people can install on their phones that you can setup to send live gps coordinates back to your web server. Source: about 1 year ago

• Best solution for remotely hosting public-facing low-traffic services?

  One container where this would have been an issue for me is OwnTracks recorder. Probably could have got it working on ARM if I wanted to compile the program then create a container around it, but didn't want to spend the time and instead just used the free tier x86_64 VM. Source: about 1 year ago

• What are your top self hosted services that you are very satisfied with ?

  I also use OwnTracks on my phone and installed OwnTracks Recorder on my server. I skimmed over my blog post for that but I don't think there's much useful for you there. Source: over 1 year ago

• How do I consistently and smoothly share live location?

  Maybe Owntracks ? It's open source and available on iOS and Android. https://owntracks.org/. Source: over 1 year ago

• similar app to Apple's Find My

  If you mean private, your best bet is probably owntracks. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Is there any service/application for logging locations I’ve visited

  Yeah, you are right about the privacy concerns. While doing my research I did find Owntracks [1] from a reddit discussion [2]. [1] https://owntracks.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Recommend some real world projects in Django

  OwnTracks for the actual tracking, google maps javascript api for mapping points out onto a map. Source: over 1 year ago

• Self Hosted Kids Smartwatch Service/Tracker

  You could look into OwnTracks. Not sure if it'll fit your use case fully, but it does allow multiple clients / devices to be listed. Source: over 1 year ago

• Travel tracker self hosted

  Take a look at https://owntracks.org/ . It especially aims at providing records of location. I guess it is not a third party, because you have to host it yourself. Hope this helps. Source: over 1 year ago

• Best elderly tracking service/app (Android).

  Https://owntracks.org/ is the solution you're looking for, but you will need to setup your server (there are instructions). Source: almost 2 years ago

• ⟳ 3 apps added, 5 updated at apt.izzysoft.de

  OwnTracks (version 20408019): keep track of your own location. Source: almost 2 years ago

• My mom wants to use an app that in case of an emergency could show her my location. Which one would be best?

  If you have that then my setup would be a combination of https://owntracks.org/ and a tiny cloud service where someone could login and see my status. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Best way to detect if there are multiple people nearby a Raspberry?

  If everybody has a smartphone, you could use OwnTracks app to geofence multiple phones. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Give me an idea for a side project

  Excuse me if I’m missing something, but why do you need the internet at all? Can’t you collect your location with a GPS watch as you run and just handle the gpx file offline when you get home? Unless you’re looking to share location with others as you run - in which case your request makes sense. Would OwnTracks meet your requirements? https://owntracks.org/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Hacker News top posts: Apr 4, 2022

  OwnTracks – keep track of your own location\ (41 comments). Source: about 2 years ago

• OpenSource GPS tracker?

  You could have a look at https://owntracks.org/ Open source has iOS and android apps. Easy to write tools for. Uses mqtt message broker underneat. Source: about 2 years ago

• MQTT Mobile App to Pulsar via MQTT

  Https://owntracks.org/ is a cool app you can use to send your location over HTTP or MQTT. We will use MQTT, which is actually MoP (MQTT on Pulsar) to my Pulsar cluster. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

• Car stolen with homemade GPS tracker in backseat

  If you find this interesting, check out OwnTracks. https://owntracks.org/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11315999. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago