Tracking options

I would like to set up unit tracking but I'm not that smart.

I like the fact that you can log in via a tablet and have it tracked but you cant track it if they don't log in. I have looked at all of the listed options withe the following results

APRS: Very confusing with many different companies plus it appears to be radio based not tablet based.

Instamapper: No longer exists. 

GTrack: Unable to find any info for Australia

LocateA: Looks as if its no longer in use.

Latitude: No longer exists.

OpenGTS: Complicated and difficult to set up.

Internal: ?

Mobile Tracker: Works well however relies on the person logging in (Need a app to work in the background)

Xastir: A version of APRS which is complicated.

Any info or advice would be helpful. One I have found that works in the background is Follow Mee (https://www.followmee.com). I wonder if that could be tied in via its API key.

Darrell Tenbosch

Lower Hunter

NSW Rural Fire Service

Recheck instamapper i have testing it for the last couple weeks and it seems to work

Richard C

St John Amb NSW

From the web site of the Instamapper for which we wrote a Tix interface some years ago:

     "InstaMapper was a popular GPS tracking / location sharing service. After nearly 5 years of operation, the site shut down in 2012.

     "We are hopeful that we will find a way to relaunch the service in the future. Please note that other sites or apps claiming to be "InstaMapper" are not affiliated with us in any way. "

It only supports Latitude, LocateA, Gtrack, OpenGTS and Internal Tracker.

Here is what I found.

I setup an OpenGTS server. It is hard to use, doesn't work with our tickets install and doesn't work with apple devices. At least, if it does, the documentation is outdated.

Enter Traccar. This program is extremely easy to use! For server side, it runs on most platforms. I have it running on a windows machine. You run the installer, open the ports on the firewall, and ensure you have the server running apache / mysql. That's not that hard to setup actually.

While it doesn't work with Tickets, they keep updating it. It works with a slew of hard wire devices, but all of my trackers are based on cell phones / tablets. Android and Apple. It's easy to update, easy to maintain and easy to use.

https://www.traccar.org/ 

That's the web site for the project.

I use a modded Traccar with an easier to use interface and a responsive design: http://traccar.litvak.su/ 

Fantastic program all around. It doesn't work within Tickets, but I am done with OpenGTS and it's poor documentation, cumbersome operation and lack of support.

Which information from traccar device should be used on the TicketsCAD units "Callsign/Key"?

I have a working TicketsCAD and Traccar on the same server unit.

so TicketsCAD setting for Traccar is:  db: "traccar.sql" user: "root" pass: "<password>" host:  "localhost"