I am trying to to install the recorder on a Raspberry Pi with docker and Portainer. I am using the windows instructions as a guide and I am stuck at this step:
How do I create the folder tree on my Pi? I know the docker folder is in the /var/lib directory, but I get an access denied message when I try to open the docker directory.
Thanks! I just saw that directly inside friends I can click on the icon and then click on the contact icon and assign a contact so the picture of the contact is now shown without filling that card!
I've never played with the Pi for this, but that usually means you need to "sudo su" to give yourself admin rights to access a resource in Linux.
Just a quick note, leaving town for 3 weeks.
Got this yesterday and today.
Running 1.7.89
app:16332024-09-03 00:00:00.259errororg.codehaus.groovy.runtime.metaclass.MissingMethodExceptionNoStack: No signature of method: user_app_lpakula_OwnTracks_698.refreshMaps() is applicable for argument types: () values: Possible solutions: refresh() (refreshMaps)
dev:20432024-09-02 20:36:17.607errororg.quartz.ObjectAlreadyExistsException: Unable to store Job : 'dev2043Once.presenceTracker', because one already exists with this identification. on line 545 (method parse)
Which model/version of the hub are you running? My C5 is throwing errors similar to that after that beta version that it wouldn't update to. I haven't tried soft resetting and restoring yet.
C8 2.3.9.175 beta
@dnickel
Is that a perpetual error in the log when the map is open, or just at midnight? This is a red herring "refreshMaps()" since it doesn't even exist, but looks like it might be the stale notification check.
Do you have any phones selected in the notification section? That might be the miss on my side.
New to owntracks. I've about given up on the flaky geofencing of the built in app.
Just a couple thoughts, I've kept about all the default settings. This project seems to rely pretty heavily on the hubitat cloud. Is there any concern this may be something hubitat might start charging for? (No idea how much load this really presents in the grand scheme of things)
Second question is about the google API for geocoding. Is my understanding correct that google gives you $200 worth of credit monthly, which equals 40,000 lookups. Just want to make sure that's not a trial basis and I'll get a suprise credit card charge down the road. 
I can't see our two phones even coming close to that quota.
Just at midnight. I have no phone's selected on a notification side.
No notifications set.
Only happened those 2 times so far.
We're off today so no access to logs as I don;t have remote admin.
My list of things never done, VPN. 
I cannot comment on Hubitat cloud. You need some sort of connection back to the hub. If you had a VPN connection from your phone to your network with the hub, you could directly access it without Hubitat Cloud.
For the API, the $200 credit should get you more than you ever need. The app is counting how many credits it's using from Google, and unless you turned off the slider in the Google API section, it will just stop asking Google when that limit is hit to eliminate extra charges. That being said, point before about you never hitting that limit still holds.
@dnickel Thanks for the info. Let me check what happens at midnight with no notification devices present. That looks to be part the nightly maintenance where it refreshes the google maps and checks for stale members.
For step 8 of the recorder setup for my raspberry PI I have 3 lines with OTR_HTTPHOST. One already has 0.0.0.0. Do I also change the second and third instances to 0.0.0.0?
Also, the OTR_STORAGEDIR path in the hubitat app instructions is different that the instructions in this topic. Which one should I use?
App
From this topic
Are the GEOKEY and the BROWSERAPIKEY the same values?
Only one needs to be in the file. Any line prefixed with a '#' is ignored.
'Recorder_store' is an arbitrary folder that I pulled from a wifi. It can be anything as long as the OTR_STORAGEDIR points to it.
Yup! If you are using the same key, you just need to ensure that in Google that the key has "geocode" and "google maps javascript" enabled.
Did you figure this out? I'm noticing the same empty list of friends in the mobile app, but populated entries in the HE app. I have Android but my family members use iPhone.
Edit: it was my thumbnail sizes
Only one needs to be in the file. Any line prefixed with a '#' is ignored.
Thanks for the clarifications. Your response to my first question has led to a new question. All the lines are prefixed with a "#". Do I only need to remove them from these lines with red or blue text listed in the instructions or are there more?
You just need to remove the # from the lines you showed (same as the recorder.conf file you listed above).
That file can be just replaced with the recorder.conf with only the couple lines listed as well.
With close to 3000 replies on this thread, I'm sorry if I'm asking something already addressed earlier.
I know this is primarily to ask about the HE app, but I'm hoping someone can confirm something for me about the owntracks mobile app:
Am I correct that the four settings for updating (significant changes, move, manual, or quiet) are about my own phone's activity? Meaning that if I'm not significantly changing (or moving) then my mobile app isn't automatically sending an update, which then means this is why the locations of the other friends isn't reflected unless I send a manual update.
So unless I change the distance that constitutes a significant change and make it lower, it looks like they are stationary?
Not a problem!
The mobile app can only update that map when it sends a location back home. At that point it pulls back the current locations of all members.
Significant mode is the most battery / data friendly. I have found that getting a Google Maps API key, and then just using the Google Friends Map web link that the HE app lists on the mobile phone the best solution for what you are asking. When that web page is open, it will check for updates every 5-seconds and then the map will dynamically update.
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