Introducing OwnTracks - Speaker Deck

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Introducing OwnTracks Jan-Piet Mens February 2021 @jpmens FRAOSUG

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OwnTracks ?

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Once upon a time … http://googlesystem.blogspot.de/2010/12/google-latitude-app-for-iphone.html

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Their big data { "features": [ { "properties": { "placardHeight": 59, "placardWidth": 56, "id": "-8307528510653225244", "accuracyInMeters": 1414, "timeStamp": 1338351805, "reverseGeocode": "Friedrichsdorf, Germany", "photoUrl": "http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/badge/api?type=photo&photo=nkj- mzcBAAA.dxs397bzbO1k\nl-Dgy0qFIg.vWW5zvcxLgY3uaJrvEZnJA", "photoWidth": 96, "photoHeight": 96, "placardUrl": "http://www.google.com/latitude/apps/badge/api?type=photo_placard&photo=nkj- mzcBAAA.dx\ns397bzbO1kl-Dgy0qFIg.vWW5zvcxLgY3uaJrvEZnJA&moving=true&stale=true&lod=1&format=png" }, "geometry": { "coordinates": [ 8.65486, 50.238862 ], "type": "Point" }, "type": "Feature" } ], "type": "FeatureCollection" }

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A crazy idea … Privacy, Security, Easy data

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MQTT is MQTT is a standard, a transport, for PUB/SUB messaging, designed for unreliable networks, binary payloads up to 256MB, (+2 bytes), fast, lightweight, ideal for low-bandwith, high- latency networks, TLS, authentication, ACLs, TLS-PSK, (payload encryption), keepalive, last will & testament, UTF-8 hierarchical topics, wildcards

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the landscape

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and the apps? Alexander Rust Andrew Rowson Christoph Krey

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… MQTTitude

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#getrichfast

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MQTT what?!

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Your own infra

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The booklet

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Your data: JSON { "_type": "location", "batt": 21, "lat": 48.85833, "t": "m", "lon": 3.29513, "acc": 5, "tid": "JJ", "vel": 8, "cog": 143, "alt": 143, "tst": 1540285680 }

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Our apps today

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Los amigos

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Transition events { "t": "c", "tst": 1541794597, "rid": "ac7943", "_type": "transition", "event": "enter", "lon": 3.29513, "lat": 48.85833, "wtst": 1539794983, "tid": "jp", "desc": "$HoME-100" }

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HTT-what?

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Bugs, bugs, more bugs As anybody who does so can attest to, Open Source can be fun and interesting.

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Statistics • • • • • •

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In a vehicle? Ha, ha, ha, ha. No.

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For vehicles!

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to pack or not to pack {„_type":"location","t":"L","tid":"C2","tst":"1413805066","lon":"13.5 32628","lat":"52.432363","cog":0,"vel":0,"alt":30,"dist":0,"trip":0} JSON protobufs msgpack csv 0 40 80 120 160

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SIM cards Roaming Roaming Roaming Did I say “roaming”?

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Own vehicles Smaller Cheaper More Reliable our code is FLOSS

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Recorder

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Own ideas

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Ecosystem openHAB Home Assistant Traccar Zanzito …

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World wide I once blogged that that was the farthest away OwnTracks user; wrong: it’s Ben in NZ of course.