Inquiry Regarding Jimi JC261 Camera Integration with Traccar
Hi,
From the proxy setup the heartbeat packets are reaching Traccar correctly and the device stays online, but the lastUpdate field is not updating because position packets are apparently not being processed correctly by Traccar.
The Jimi devices use a GT06-based protocol variant. (here is a sample position packet : 78782622190b03091739cf02c484460601327012152a01a80200000263bb010000000217860f8b12840d0a) I am forwarding all raw packets without modification to Traccar. Login packets work and device stays connected, but location packets are not updating the device position in Traccar.
Is Traccar able to decode Jimi GT06 variant packets directly, or do I need to convert/normalize the packets before forwarding?
If Traccar’s GT06 decoder does not fully understand Jimi dialect, what is the recommended approach?
Configure proper port?
Use OsmAnd?
Convert raw packets to Traccar JSON API?
Create a custom Traccar decoder?
Could you please suggest ?
The recommended approach is to implement support for any unsupported message types in Traccar.
Thanks again for the guidance.
The devices are accepting the position packets on port 5023, and Traccar is successfully decoding the position packets; the location updates are showing correctly on the map. However, when the device goes offline, the last state remains “moving” at the last reported point and time.
Do we need to implement support for the remaining Jimi-specific message types to get proper status transitions (moving → parking→ idling), or could this still be a configuration/protocol mismatch issue?
Would appreciate your thoughts on whether adding support for the missing message types is required here.
or could this still be a configuration/protocol mismatch issue?
No.
Could you please help us to sort this out? Is it an issue happening from the device side or the server?
Thanks in advance.
We do have professional services if you need help with the implementation.
The way we are developing a gateway to work with JC261 involves :
We had deployed a RTMP server (to catch live streams requested with RTMP,ON command). And deployed some scripts to catch HTTP event file pushing from JC261. We are not clear about how can pass these files to Traccar, so we have develop alternative media portal with same tc_users authentication where we manage all stored media files.
Last thing we are gonna modify is traccar-web template, to add somewhere the access link to media portal.
Sharing this just as idea, hoping be useful.
Greets.
not your model but we got it working with jc181
Byron, please share the code.
Hey Anton if you could make this happen. We'd be so grateful. I found another implementation of this. Maybe you can check it out. I don't want to include the link here as I can see its not allowed so I will just screenshot it. The amount of people requesting dashcam gps trackers now is a lot and we just can't support it. This is a youtube channel by the way. You can search it up.
Hey Anton, Ive just done a little more digging as i can't access the traccar site but its seems this developer has the code up online however its an older version which i don't think includes the video telematics features but just check it out.
Who's interested in donating or temporary providing Jimi camera so we can implement proper video streaming support in Traccar?
Please send me invoice I will pay for jc181 camera from your local provider, I can donate the cost of the device. I don’t have the code I paid a developer to create this, I only have the server running with this working can you connect to it and get code this way ? I have server credentials and I have contacted you before for profesional services and you have conected to my server prior. I believe proper video streaming support would be best. I also have oficial jc181 protocol, as this camera support live video and also request video from sd card to view history plays back.
Can you please email support with the documentation. And to discuss device order.
Hi Anton,
I have managed to resolve initial connectivity issues, and it was because of device authentication, and I preserved the auth packets from device and sent them to Traccar when the device connection was lost. Now my Jimi JC261 device appears as online on Traccar. However, the coordinates and last updated time are not displaying correctly. The status changes to online when I send the following packets, but no proper location or time updates are registered.
Sample packets received from the device:
78780a130406040002095d35230d0a
78780be001010101020008af10fb0d0a
Traccar shows the device as online after receiving these packets
Position and last update time are not updating correctly
Could you please help analyze if the incoming message format is correct or suggest what configuration might be missing for Traccar to parse these packets properly? Should I try any other port? Please suggest.