Comment: EOTrackMe

Well David OziExplorer works fine without an internet connection and that is supposed to be using an internal GPS. The tablet is an Acer A1-830 and the GPS is stated as "GPS / GLONASS"

Interesting the last one of these reported was related to a faulty GPS. The test you have done would suggest something else. Can you tell me does it error straight away when you launch the program or after a period of time? Can you try to launch the program and not start the logging functions and wait for at least 3 mins and see if it crashes?

David

Darn not right click just click on the blue EOTrackMe Android words and this will download the apk file. I will try to resolve the reason the file image of not showing (just another migration issue).

David

Ok now added .apk as a valid file type so you should now have an image - download the apk and install it on you tablet and let me know how it all goes.

David

Uninstalled, Powered of, restarted tablet, installed app.

If there is no internet access the the app fails to start and returns the error that it has stopped.

Powered of, restarted tablet, connected to internet.
EOTrackme starts fine and runs
disconnect internet
EOTrackMe reports it cant resolve host in the server field
after about 90-120 seconds returns the error that the app has stopped.

I have got it working on a cheap Tablet which dosent have GPS by using a USB mouse GPS (what I use on Notebooks) but OziExplorer wont work because it needs the internal GPS.
Arthur

Arthur,

Ozi should work with external GPS. However I have a thought and will try to put in some code into the program to ignore aborts. I am not 100% sure how to code this in Android but I sure it is easy enough. I just need a bit of time. Right now in the migration of the servers (busiest days today/tomorrow) I may struggle but I will do it when I get a few mins and publish up a new version for you to try. If it solves it I will update the Play store version.

David

PS: If I have not done it by Monday please hassle me with a followup, member message or email. With the amount of stuff in my head right now anything is possible.

Some improvement
1, Cleared the data
2. Uninstalled
3. turned off then back on (delay over 5 min)
4. downloaded the Android file via PC
5. Installed on Tablet
6. Started app

With Internet connected everything OK
turned Internet connection off and it continued eventually returning "ERROR Internal Status Check - Assume Offline"
Reconnected Internet 1 hr later error message disappeared.

First line of display said "using GPS"
with the unit not moving returned "paused GPS" occasionally.

Turned everything OFF including Internet connection and having set Start on Bootup. Then turned the tablet on and everything appears to work .
Took the unit out for a drive including into an underground Car Park (to check what would happen with NO GPS signal and it continued to work.

Returned home and connected to Internet and it reported 34 points uploaded.
Now the problem
On ExploreOZ EOTrackMe page under "My Tracking" it reported that last seen was 0 seconds but the data displaid was from two days ago, not what I had just done. Waited several hours and rechecked and still only data from days back!

Also Ozi for android only uses internal GPS contacted the developers there and they confirmed that with no plans to add external GPS receivers,

Arthur

Excellent that it worked need to refine that message showing - the message indicates that the comms check program was crashing. I will fix the message and upload a new solution to the play store - excellent another thing working.

The thing that is not working seems to be a problem I introduced since the update yesterday and I am currently working on it. I suspect I have lost some data in this error. I am on the code right now and I think I have all the data in logs files but I may not be able to process it.

Must go now and get the new maps server running so I can get past this data error. Will report back soon

Yeah a win
David

David
Just did some more testing and the offline methods seem to be OK. Only problem I have found now is when you click to stop logging the stored points are lost when you restart logging. same when you stop logging and shut down ie stopping for several days outside of internet connectivity. When you restart stored points are set back to "1" once position is found.

Really - how can that be I will have to have a look - are you using the APK above of the Play Store updated one?

Try the Play Store one for me and I hope this is not happening. I will run some testing also. But I did a fair amount of checking.

David

Arthur,

Firstly revert back to the Play Store version for any testing.

I have fully tested this and there is no way the system can delete the file without sending the positions. How do you determine it has reset? It will not show you the queue till you are online I do not think so you will see a position count of 1 which is the number of positions since you started the queue can still be large. To confirm this before you download plug the device into your PC or use a file manager and have a look at the sender.log file in the EOTrackMe folder on your storage card if it is there and is larger that 0 bytes then there is position data.

Please let me know if this is the case as I have released this version and in my testing it works correctly.

David

David
I was determining it as the points to send had reverted to 1. I have just cleared the tracks on the tracking screen and will recheck, have checked the sender .log and it has a size. This file is on the tablets internal drive if that makes a difference.


Arthur

Arthur,

I am very comfortable that there is no problem. you will only see points since you hit start the other points are still sitting in the background. I do not process the file if you are offline so I do not check how many are in there if the device is not both logging and online.

I guess I could mod it to read the numlines and display this at boot but it will get removed by the Offline message. I could do a bit of work on the interface so will ensure I look at this in due course.

Please continue your tests as it is most helpful to me, however I believe the data is fine and will upload when you are in service, you will see Sending Locations appear followed by X Sent Y Queue.

David

David

After finding that file I reconnected to the internet and left it connected and it seemed to upload OK. I don't think I was giving it enough time although the device indicated an internet connection eotrackme had not.
The maps were also becoming cluttered with the testing racks.

Thanks for your help and I will do another test with cleared maps

Arthur

Everything appears to be working fine. Thanks to everyone.

David,

Would it be possible to add a "log to file" function, which would save all points recorded to a file (CSV or other)?

It would be a great peace of mine to myself and likely many others if we could have a backup which we could load into our own mapping programs should an upload fail...

Oziexplorer does this but is buggy as hell, so i tend to rely more on EO trackme...

Thanks,
Janek

Janek,

Yeah I can add this and I also want to add a messaging system to allow you to send and receive short messages to the device. These messages would be able to be shown on the tracking map.

I need to do a lot of work on the EOTrackMe system still - there is more I want to deliver but right now we are full time EOTopo 200K. Once this is done I will have a look at this.

David