Utrack

Background terminal position tracking for Ubuntu Touch devices.

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Credits

• Thanks to gpx-py : https://github.com/tkrajina/gpxpy

features

• Record into a gpx file your trip into Download folder,
• Auto-import trip into activitytracker,
• Realtime recording of your position into Phonetrack https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/phonetrack

version

• 0.3
  • Auto import into activitytracker
  • Realtime tracking into PhoneTrack
  • Harden and cleanup code
  • Better use of the binary test_gps
  • Add debug information
  • Add help menu
  • Renaming of the script
  • migrate to github
• 0.2 update UI
• 0.1 intial release

Requierments

• Depending of the Ubuntu Touch version and AppArmor security, you might need to run this app into an iperspace. See https://open-store.io/app/iperspace.emanuelesorce Currently RC and Stable requires this tool.
• Terminal app has to be allowed to run in background with the app ubuntu tweak tool https://open-store.io/app/ut-tweak-tool.sverzegnassi.

Howto use it

To start the application, it's required to be in the folder of the python script and be launched with sudo. By default Utrack creates a gpx file at the end of the run, for extra features argument needs to be passed to the script :

phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ cd /opt/click.ubuntu.com/utrack/current/
phablet@ubuntu-phablet:/opt/click.ubuntu.com/utrack/current$ sudo ./Utrack.py -h
usage: Utrack.py [-h] [--cloud CLOUD] [-d] [-activity]

Utouch tracker options.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  --cloud CLOUD  Add Phonetrack address to enable cloud recording, address
                 type https://Cloudserver.org/apps/phonetrack/log/owntracks/c1eb6b15bc694e1127db6ac4/
  -d             create a debug file /tmp/Utrack_log.txt
  -activity      Auto import the trip to Activity tracker application

Thus to record a gpx file + pushing it to Activitytracker the following is required : sudo ./Utrack.py -activity To record a gps file + Activitytracker + phonetrack : sudo ./Utrack.py -activity --cloud https://Cloudserver.org/apps/phonetrack/log/owntracks/c1eb6b15bc694e1127db6ac4/

Userfriendly tip

• The application is located in the folder /opt/click.ubuntu.com/utrack/current/, in order to ovoid each time to write down this path, let's create a bash alias doing that for you.
• open ~/.bashrc by nano ~/.bashrc
• add the following : alias GPS="cd /opt/click.ubuntu.com/utrack/current/ && sudo ./Utrack.py"
• close the terminal and reopen it,
• To start the recording by calling the shortcut GPS.

I've two alias one with the other without --cloud argument.

Enjoy.