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"unauthorised" likely means your password is incorrect.



OruxMaps 7.1.2 works with SNI.



Cheers,

Martijn.

I meant that opening the URL you're supposed to use in Oruxmaps cannot be opened in a browser. It doesn't make any sense to try that.



For the rest, I have no idea what might be wrong without more information. But this is a forum about Oruxmaps, not Trackserver, so please open a ticket on Wordpress.org if you want more help.



Best regards,

Martijn.

Read the FAQ please. What you are trying to do is not supposed to work.



Best regards,

Martijn.

Is is really that hard?? If you want help, you should tell people what you have tried to make it work and what EXACTLY isn't working. "with no success" is NOT an accurate problem description.





In  Trackserver, leave everything default and take note of the "Full custom URL" that it reports.



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Hi,



I'm not sure what you mean by 'the one defined in trackserver'. There is no distinct password for MapMyTracks in Trackserver, only for TrackMe, OsmAnd and SendLocation. So indeed, use your WP username and password for live tracking with OruxMaps/MapMyTracks.



I'm curious to hear about your experiences with Trackserver.



Best regards,

Martijn.

Hi Orux,



I would like to make OruxMaps with Trackserver the best combination for any Wordpress user with an interest in GPS tracking and I hope we can work together where it is helpful for either application!



I am on holiday at the moment, but I'll be back next week and maybe we can discuss it!



Cheers,

Martijn.

Trackserver v1.3 was released this evening.



https://wordpress.org/plugins/trackserver/changelog/">https://wordpress.org/plugins/trackserver/changelog/



Cheers,

Martijn

Congratulations! A new baby is the most overwhelming thing that can happen in your life. Enjoy!!

Will you make the protocol open and add the option to specify a custom hostname for the server?



I would like to offer te same functionality in my Trackserver wordpress plugin.



Cheers,

Martijn

Yes, OruxMaps supports many services that allow you to upload tracks, but none of them offer the option to specify a custom hostname or URL.



If that option were present, I could easily implement the upload protocol in Trackserver.



My request to orux would be to add the "custom url" option to all supported services in OruxMaps that use HTTP for posting/uploading (and dowloading, too).



Best regards,

Martijn.

Hi,



This week I released v1.0 of Trackserver, a Wordpress plugin for live online location tracking and collection and publication of GPS tracks. It works with OruxMaps via the MapMyTracks protocol and it also supports TrackMe and other ways of collecting tracks.



If you have a self-hosted Wordpress website and you're interested in location tracking, please have a look and give it a try.



A short list of Trackserver's features:

•    Collect location updates using several mobile (Android) apps

•    Publish your collected tracks on a map in your posts and pages

•    Upload tracks via an upload form in the WordPress admin backend

•    Upload tracks by sharing a GPX file from your mobile, using a sharing app like Autoshare

•    View, edit, delete and merge your tracks in the WordPress admin backend

•    Live tracking of your location, with automatic updates of the map view in your WordPress post

•    Full-screen map views

Introductory blog post: https://www.grendelman.net/wp/introducing-trackserver-wordpress-plugin/">https://www.grendelman.net/wp/introduci ... ss-plugin/">https://www.grendelman.net/wp/introducing-trackserver-wordpress-plugin/

WordPress plugin page: https://wordpress.org/plugins/trackserver/">https://wordpress.org/plugins/trackserver/

Source code: https://github.com/tinuzz/wp-plugin-trackserver">https://github.com/tinuzz/wp-plugin-trackserver



If you try it out, let me know what you think.



Cheers,

Martijn.

For all the new feature that use 'OruxMaps servers', can I key in a custom hostname / URL, and will the protocols be documented?



I am asking because I am only interested in the features, not the hosted service. In other words, all those features are really interesting to me, but only in a self-hosted environment.



So, please please pleeeease make the hostname/URL a configurable setting. It should be no effort at all to implement that.



Best regards,

Martijn.

Please scratch this feature request.



I am working on a new server (a Wordpress plugin, actually) that supports both TrackMe and MapMyTracks, and a number of other ways to get tracks into the database.



Cheers,

Martijn.

Hi,



I am sorry, indeed my test server did not reply with a correct XML response to 'update_activity', like it does for 'start_activity'. Sorry for the confusion.



If you need help with the server side of something, please let me know what you have in mind. If it's Python or PHP I may be able to help out.



Best regards,

Martijn,

I have also been looking at the stuff OruxMaps sends to the server when MapMyTracks live logging is active, and I really wonder why it sends what it sends.



I have taken the 'start_activity' and all the 'update_activity' requests from a walk I took the other day, and put the values from the 'points' parameter in a spreadsheet. See here for the result: https://www.grendelman.net/files/screenshot-mapmytracks-oruxmaps.png">https://www.grendelman.net/files/screen ... uxmaps.png">https://www.grendelman.net/files/screenshot-mapmytracks-oruxmaps.png



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There are a couple of things that I think are strange.

• In total, OruxMaps made 32 requests, but there were only 14 unique ones, the others were duplicates.

• Column A is 'start_activity'. Those points are sent only once and never repeated.

• The highest number of points in any request is 49

• In column E, some points are dropped, apparently because otherwise there would be too many, but only 31 points remain

• In column J, all of a sudden OLD points are logged that have never been logged before. Those are the ones in red.

• In column N this happens again.

• In column J, also older trackpoints are sent, that weren't sent the 5 requests before that, so points first appearing in C or D, then NOT logged in E through I, and coming back in J through M, but not N.

The last observation I'm sure is due to the way OruxMaps decides which points to drop, to get the number down to an acceptable level (< 50?). However, the end result seems quite arbitrary. Some points get logged only once, others maybe 3 times and some even 13 times. The algorithm also seems to drop points from the set that have never been logged. It just doesn't make sense.



First question: why send points more than once in the first place? To cater for failed connections? OK. Then why not just send the last 50 points? That way, all points will get the same treatment and the server has lots of opportunities to catch everything. But that is not very bandwidth- or battery-efficient and neither is sending requests to the server when there is no new data.



I would suggest to send ONLY new data, and maybe when the number of new points accumulates to 40 or something, send one extra request with all those points, just for safety. But that shouldn't be necessary, because OruxMaps can know by the HTTP status code and the XML response whether the server has processed the request correctly. Failed requests could be queued and retried.



I think I read somewhere, that if OruxMaps can't reach the server, it will queue the points, but if more than 50 points get queued, the list is shortened with the same algorithm. In that case of course it does not make sense to send the last 50 points, since you want to log from the start of the trip. But in that case, why trim the list down to 50? Why not send all points and divide them over as many requests as necessary (assuming the limit of 50 points is somehow imposed by MapMyTracks and not an arbitrary choice in OruxMaps)? That shouldn't be hard to do. It's just a bit strange that the end result in your online tracklog should be different just because your connection was out for some time.



And two last questions: OruxMaps sends a request every two minutes. Could that be a configurable parameter? I don't know anything about the limits of the MapMyTracks service, but since I am implementing my own server, I would like more frequent updates. And would it be possible to send a 'start_activity' a little sooner, like directly when starting the log? I'm not sure what the added value is of saving up locations for two minutes before sending the 'start_activity'.



I hope this helps. Outside the things mentioned in this post, I really like OruxMaps, so I hope I can help to improve it.



Best regards,

Martijn.