For kicks, during a drive while my cell was plugged in, I cranked down the reporting interval to 5 seconds and set the accuracy to medium.
https://imgoat.com/uploads/1f491a404d/128278.png
I was driving East to Gretna, and then North on 29.
It seems that a lot of my location reports were sent from some poorly calculated points, all near each other and in a row.
https://imgoat.com/uploads/1f491a404d/128280.png
I thought, maybe my location provider services are all jacked up... But then I saw it was correctly reporting the inaccuracy of these points.
I also noticed that when I opened satstat or any other GPS app, it seemed like my phone had to wait a bit to get its fix; Given the low interval on my phone, I thought Traccar would keep the GPS on and fixed.
The area I was driving through would not have had much in the way of wifi from which to get a "medium" accuracy fix... so I'm assuming those badly reported points were based purely on a cell tower fix.
Curious why Traccar may not have been using GPS for this?
Even if GPS is always ON, it doesn't mean that it's always possible to get a valid location from it. For example, GPS doesn't work indoors. Tall buildings can also block signal.
This was driving on a rural highway with mostly open fields. SatStat had a consistent fix, and even during that time that I had it open and was watching it, Traccar doesn't seem to have logged locations as expected.
I will try it again with an ADB Logcat running and see if something more interesting shows up.
For kicks, during a drive while my cell was plugged in, I cranked down the reporting interval to 5 seconds and set the accuracy to medium.
https://imgoat.com/uploads/1f491a404d/128278.png
I was driving East to Gretna, and then North on 29.
It seems that a lot of my location reports were sent from some poorly calculated points, all near each other and in a row.
https://imgoat.com/uploads/1f491a404d/128280.png
I thought, maybe my location provider services are all jacked up... But then I saw it was correctly reporting the inaccuracy of these points.
I also noticed that when I opened satstat or any other GPS app, it seemed like my phone had to wait a bit to get its fix; Given the low interval on my phone, I thought Traccar would keep the GPS on and fixed.
The area I was driving through would not have had much in the way of wifi from which to get a "medium" accuracy fix... so I'm assuming those badly reported points were based purely on a cell tower fix.
Curious why Traccar may not have been using GPS for this?