Location of phone with gps
 

I would like to be able to know current location of my phone.

When I cannot find it (is it in work, home, summerhouse,...), when somebody steals it from me (possibly hurting me in process),... there're plenty legal reasons for it.

I imagine application, that will run on background and periodically report it's position to server or send it by email, etc. While it can be done python script,...

There're of course many issues/options (how often report, go online if offline for more than hour, turn on gps if not on-gps for more than four hours, send position as email / fetch url on your server,...) to decide, but that's for discussion.

Re: Location of phone with gps
 

There is already something for that, it's called "I am here".

Search up.

Re: Location of phone with gps
 

But make sure you read the whole thread before making up your mind to install or not - the dev appears to have dropped to have dropped the app a while back. Bit of a shame because it had real promise.

Re: Location of phone with gps
 

Re: Location of phone with gps
 

If you don't mind playing with scripts, have a look at http://www.whereismydevice.com

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=51027

It ideally needs a little more work on the scripts, but the server side stuff is all there...

Re: Location of phone with gps
 

I got scared by references on "I am here" - which was the point I guess :) - but I really like other two and as scripts are not issue for me, so I'll give try to both of them.

Thank you

Re: Location of phone with gps
 

i dont mind playing with scripts but i really dont know what to do with the scripts you have given in that site.i ve even registered with the site but reverted back because of lack of knowledge abt that.a simple advice will suffice.i ll google the rest.thx in advance

Re: Location of phone with gps
 

On the API page it explains how I have set them up - the 99_tracker script goes in the if.up directory, which means it will get run each time the network is brought up. That triggers the various other scripts as necessary.

Hope that helps!
Ben