Android client frequency and distance

bones2 months ago

I'm new to Traccar. It's my understanding that if I set the update frequency in the Android client to 60 seconds and set the distance to 500m, it should only update once per minute provided the device has moved 500m. If it hasn't moved, then no update should be sent. Is that correct or is my understanding completely wrong?

I'm trying to prevent the client from sending updates to the server if the device hasn't moved. At the moment I have two Android clients sending updates every 60 seconds all around the clock when they haven't moved at all.

Is this purely by design and can't be changed? Or is there some way to tell the client to only send an update if it's moved a certain distance, and while it /is/ moving to update frequently.

Thanks

Anton Tananaev2 months ago

We basically apply OR logic to the conditions. So if you se 60 seconds and 500 meters distance, it will report if either 60 seconds passed or 500 meters from last location.

bones2 months ago

So it seems there's no way to reduce the number of client updates when not moving. Thanks for the clarification!

SiggiKa month ago

Hello,

I have an additional question on the Android client. I play around with the different settings in order to see the difference. I have the client sending updates, however when I do a walk the position changes very often and on the map it looks very funny like I was jumping around back and force.
I did change the Position Accuracy, which indeed had an influence. But still it's not accurate :-)

Thanks,
Siggi