Following to a recent post on Facebook, I tried the Nextcloud PhoneTrack App. The app in Nextcloud is just great. Very easy to use, quick in the response and for now everything available what is required.
However, the Android Apps are the limitiation from my prospective.
Mainly advertised is the PhoneTrack Android App. Like the Nextcloud App, it is very simple to use and works basically very well. However, compared to the documentation, it is the App which pulls my battery down quickest. I must say that I have enabled to keep GPS activated between position detections. This as without having this option enabled, positions get not logged with a reasonable accuracy.
Do I see it right that the App doesn´t get further developed? The latest release is from 2020. This would be a big pity as in principle it is just great. And I believe (at least my problem) could be solved very easily when implementing a feature which disables logging when being logged into defined WiFi networks. So that whenever I´m at home or in the office, where I don´t need any logging, it won´t draw any power (and also not log unneccesarry flickering).
Just as a side node my experience with regards to the other Apps:
- OwnTracks: The one which provides the best logging accuracy to me with the lowest power demand. The problem about is, that it has (large) jumping positions. This may could be solved by allowing to select GPS as data source only but it seems also not be maintained anymore. At least the bug report on Github is some years old and doesn´t get attention.
- GPSLogger: I haven´t tested it much yet, but experienced also a position jumping to which I found also a corresponding report on Github. Different to the problem of OwnTracks it seems by GPSLogger more a time-stamp issue of timing of the updating of the positions rather than positions which are totally odd.