Can I have a temporary link to show a device

Marc 5 years ago

Hello --

I'd often find it convenient to get a third person temporay access to my Traccar server, for the explicit purpose of following a device for a given time. E.g. 'let's meet later in the day, you can follow my progress to our meeting point with this link'. Sort of a throwaway link that would expire automatically after 24 hours or so and just shows the current position/recent movement of one specific device.

Is that feasible? I have snooped around a bit, but not found anything that would immediately fit.

Thanks

Anton Tananaev 5 years ago

Should be possible. There's an expiration day for a user. You can make a read-only user with access to a single device. And you can use token link for access.

Marc 5 years ago

Thanks - I've been able to create a user and login by token, and tying the device ID to the user created.

Although, how can I limit time visibility? Just because I give an outsider permission to see my current position, I would not want to share my location history. Ideally it would give permission from the moment I create the user to the time it expires.

Anton Tananaev 5 years ago

There is no way to restrict reports.

BerndFfm 5 years ago

You can change the ID of the device.

If you write your own app you can send the location to 2 servers, one has an temporary device id.

I need the same for operations of our search and rescue dog teams.

The id of the device is sometimes chached.

Greetings Bernd