Article Comment: EOTrackMe

Looks like you've missed something in the settings for your iPhone as what's happened is when you've gone out of service it has not done the store and forward and only done last point in service to next point in service, where the system can continue to record and plot when out of service if you have the settings configured properly. Go to the documentation tab on the EOTrackMe page and look for iPhone settings and double check.

OK, gone to Documentation, then to:
'Supported Devices and Tracking Software 3G/4G Network
iPhone & iPad - uTrackMe'
'All iPhones feature an inbuilt GPS receiver, as well as selected iPads. Simply by downloading the uTrackMe app from iTunes you can submit tracking to EOTrackMe. See Settings for uTrackme (iPhone) for more information.'

Clicking on the 'See Settings for uTrackme (iPhone) for more information' brings up an error message,
'The system cannot find the specified blog item You have been returned to the Members myBlog Index'

I did a trip last year (iPhone 5s) up the Birdsville Track to Birdsville, further up to Bulia, then east to Longreach, down to Windorah, Innamincka and back to Adelaide.
For some inexplicable reason, the recorded track followed the correct route to around the Inside Track junction and the Birdsville Track, then recorded a straight line to Birdsville. There were other instances of "as the bird flies" tracking to the extent I was really disapointed with the end result.
My previous trip the year before (IPhone 4s) to the Kimberley and back saw a straight line deviation from Broome to Perth and back, then when we reached Katherine, a mystery trip across to Brisbane and back.
On followup, David mentioned a problem with the IOS version on the iPhone 4s as being the likely culprit at the time.

I no longer rely on EOTrackMe for recording of my treks. It's just not accurate or reliable.

I have really tried and wanted to use EO track me over a number of years and quite a few phones.
Unfortunately it just stops logging for days, then starts again then stops again.

It is a great concept and has some very neat features, but I have realised that it simply can't be relied upon to accurately log my trips. It is very disappointing to get home and find that thousands of kms are missing from your trip log with straight lines in between.

Last trip was fine in a test I did just prior to my trip around Melbourne, then it missed Mel to Tocumwal, then fine till Bourke, then missed the rest of of NSW and most of Qld then worked near Cairns hlaf way up the cape, then failed to log for 3 weeks all the way home except a brief log at Fraser Island. My phone was on, and working the entire time. Looking at my EO log you would swear I flew Mel - Tocumwal, Bourke, Cairns, the Cape, Fraser Island - Mel, hiring a few cars along the way LOL.

I would love to use it and at one stage used the website as part of my EPIRB registration. But that way it works, Search and rescue would have been in QLD looking for me while I am in Vic. I suspect that often when you lose phone reception, it gets screwed up and can't recover for some time, even weeks.

It would be nice to have the system revamped so it is reliable.
After about 4 years of trying to get it work reliably, I have given up sadly. Some times it is fine for ages and works, then all of a sudden it fails to log.

I have used it on my HF radio in the past ( which seemed to work well) and 4 - 5 different Android phones, none of which have been reliable with respect to EO track me.. I suspect the Android app stops working internally at random times. I have had HTC, Motorola, and several Samsungs on version 2.2 through to version 5 Android. They've all had the same problem.

I hope David and co can have a real good look at it.

I am new to TrackMe and have been testing it in metro area. I to find it does not follow the roads I have travelled on but just draws a straight line between two points. I have an iPhone 6.0 and runs 4g and uTrackMe. I set it as per iPhone docs. Is there something else that requires setup

Hi Member- Ups & Downs,

Michelle has asked that I have a look at this post/the issues raised, and I just wanted to let you know that I have had a look at your profile, and can actually see 2x iphones registered both with different Device IDs. So that I can figure out which is correct, can I please ask you to check your Device ID and email this to me at adele@exploroz.com (I can then delete the incorrect device for you.

Also I have taken note of some of the outdated information displayed in the EOTrackMe documentation and will be updating these tomorrow.

I also wanted to note that the uTrackMe Beacon app (which is the app that you download to your phone to configure for use with EOTrackMe) is a third party application, and therefore the tracking settings/data as reported by Sandman and Peter from Vic are actually logged by this application itself rather than being affected by any issues in EOTrackMe.

We have been working for some time to create our own proprietary iOS tracking app (as we have already done for Android and PC) - this would be developed and owned by ExplorOz and we hope to be releasing this in the upcoming months.