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Well, I've had a fully functioning Traccar instance running all night and most of the day and I'm sad to say that I'm less than impressed.
The tracking isn't quite as bad as OwnTracks but not nearly as good as PhoneTrack. Instead of showing me that I randomly went to a city several miles away, I just spent some time in a field by my house instead of walking down the road next to it.
I've kept PhoneTrack running in tandem and the comparison, in terms of accuracy and battery usage, leaves no question. I tried everything I could think of to post a screenshot of my battery usage but "image is too large" was all I got even for an 18k image. So, after a day-ish of running both, my battery stats in Android show:
I think it's PhoneTrack's "significant motion" setting that makes the difference here. If Traccar gets this feature (or already has it and I'm missing it...) that will solve a few problems.
If I'm missing something with Traccar here, somebody please set me to rights. It seems strange that the only setting in the Traccar client to save battery is to set the interval longer, thereby killing accuracy. PhoneTrack seems to have solved this problem, and it's "just a Nextcloud app", Traccar is dedicated to this functionality, I feel like it should have more options. 🤷♂️
Looks like I'm sticking with PhoneTrack for now which means my Nextcloud instance has been relegated to app platform instead of all-in-one file manager.
EDIT: Didn't notice the wake lock setting, trying it for a bit with that off to see if that helps
I have yet to try this, but you should be able to use the OwnTracks app with Traccar.
I‘m using OwnTracks for years now to log into PhoneTrack (and previously php-owntracks-recorder). No issues.
Interesting, I'll have to give that a try. Thanks for the tip!
A small update: Traccar with the wake lock off and the interval set to 100 seconds uses a fraction of the battery but the accuracy still seems questionable. Since it's not draining the battery anymore, I'm going to keep running them in tandem for comparison. If I remember, I'll come back here with my results