EO Live Tracking & Spot Tracking Devices (Feedback)

I am running SPOT, and I've not experienced the same issue, but I have experienced the complete lack of tracking all together- working now.

Landy,

Thanks for your email I am pasting most of the response in the thread to ensure others are aware of the answer. Please note this is for SPOT devices only and all other tracking devices are online processes so there is no poll process done.

---- Email from me to Landy -----
Thanks again for your excellent feedback and test results. I found the problem and have resolved it and improved the code for the system significantly. The reason it stopped was the trigger process was not running as often as it used to due to a program improvement in the mapping system (so in short the process was only triggering infrequently every few hours). This is the reason you got strange results. I have now adjusted the entire process to ensure it runs all the time and will trigger every 10 mins.

Basically the flow now is: if you device is active (this means I have seen an update in the last 2 hours) then you will be polled every 10 mins. If your device goes inactive (I have not seen you for at least 2 hours) then you are polled every hour until of course I see you again and you become active.

So hopefully this will resolve it fully and correctly. Again thanks for raising the issue.
--- End of email response ---

David

This may be partly relevant: Spot sat coverage has not been continuous over the day. Globalstar were supposed to launch the remainder of the 2nd gen sats last month to fix this.

Landy

We have been using SPOT since it was started. There are times when positions are delayed, but from our experience these down times are quite rare.

We have travelled up from Victoria & are currently in Cpae Leveque and havent noticed any down times when we check our trip on line.

I have noticed at times, that the ExplorOz site is a behind. I noticed this in Kununurra last week - I think there must have been an issue with the ExplorOz site as my positions were being shown on the SPOT site & Sptowalla.

You can check our travels at http://www.zebra400.com/ExplorOz.htm. Currnetly it shows our position about 30 minutes ago.

Laurie

Landy, I hope you don't mind me stomping on your thread.

The HF radio club has a service where you can send your GPS position to their web site and to Facebook. It sends an email from the HF radio club to Facebook's position system.

David at EO, it would be realllllly neat if you could interface to it to add HF radio positioning as another input to the live tracking service.