Hi, I am planning to build my own location history service similar to the google maps timeline.

For this, I need a simple app that sends my current location (and current speed/altitude if possible) to a given HTTPS endpoint every x seconds.

Is there an app that does that? I could also build my own app, but I’d prefer to spend my time on the server-side.

I found a similar feature in OsmAnd (see the image below), but I’d like to not send my coordinates via URL parameters for security reasons.

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Nextcloud can do something along those lines:

https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/phonetrack

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Thanks, I’ll try that for now since I wanted to set up a nextcloud anyways

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Traccar, uLogger, Locus, OwnTrack…

That said you say you don’t want to send your location via the url but with https, the url is also encrypted.

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Is this something you could do with tasker?

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Maybe Phonetrack? I use that in combination with nextcloud.

https://gitlab.com/eneiluj/phonetrack-android/wikis/home (avbl. In fdroid)

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GPSLogger seems to fit your requirements. It allows you to send location data to a wide variety of different servers, including URLs.

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I’ve found gpslogger to phonetrack works well. The phonetrack app isn’t bad but a bit heavy IMO.

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I’m using OwnTracks to feed my Traccar setup at home.

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