manual:user_guide:functions:live_tracking
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| ====== Live Tracking ====== | ====== Live Tracking ====== | ||
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| - | **Locus Live Tracking is sharing your actual position continuously in real time.** | + | **Locus Live Tracking is sharing your actual position continuously in real time.** |
| + | <WRAP center round info> | ||
| + | This feature requires your registration and log in to **[[manual: | ||
| + | </ | ||
| - | Locus Map offers | + | You can share your position in **three ways**: |
| * **Share with all** - sharing with the whole world on **[[http:// | * **Share with all** - sharing with the whole world on **[[http:// | ||
| * **Share with a group** - position is shared only in a **selected group of people** | * **Share with a group** - position is shared only in a **selected group of people** | ||
| - | * **Custom** - position is shared via **third party services** | + | * **Custom** - position is shared via custom defined service or **third party services** |
| - | First two live tracking options share your actual **position**, | + | First two live tracking options share your actual **position**, |
| ===== How to start ===== | ===== How to start ===== | ||
| - | * go to **Menu > more functions > Live Tracking** and tap. Initial page of live tracking wizard appears: | + | * go to **Menu > more functions > Live Tracking** and tap. Initial page of live tracking wizard appears: |
| - | * select **whom do you need to share your real time position with**: | + | * select **whom do you need to share your real time position with**: |
| ==== Share with all ==== | ==== Share with all ==== | ||
| Your real time position is shared with **public** at **[[http:// | Your real time position is shared with **public** at **[[http:// | ||
| + | Your **icon and name are prefilled** by default by values from your **My Locus profile**. I.e. if you logged in via Google, your Google avatar and name are used. **These data can be edited**:\\ {{ : | ||
| + | * press blue **start button** and Live Tracking begins. | ||
| + | * **active Live Tracking is indicated in your device status bar**:\\ {{ : | ||
| + | ==== Share with a group ==== | ||
| + | Select a **pre-defined group of people** and share your real-time position wih them. **Nobody else will see your shared position.** These groups were created by you or someone else. | ||
| - | + | | |
| - | ===== Public live tracking ===== | + | * **tap a selected group** and your group live tracking session |
| - | + | * if you need to **join a new group**, enter its **access key** here: | |
| - | This feature monitors position of **all other Locus users who have this feature on** and displays it on the main map screen. You are able to display also nickname, icon, message, azimuth, speed and other information about monitored users. | + | ==== Share with a new group ==== |
| - | + | <WRAP center round info> | |
| - | When launched for the first time a **new profile is created automatically** and you are prompted to insert | + | This feature |
| - | {{ : | + | </ |
| - | Then tap {{: | + | To start a new group, select this option. Your **new group is added right away** |
| - | <WRAP center round important> | + | <WRAP center round tip> |
| - | Using Live tracking | + | Group live tracking includes also **[[manual: |
| </ | </ | ||
| - | **Status** of the Live tracking is displayed in your device' | + | ===== How to stop ===== |
| + | | ||
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| + | | ||
| - | ===== Private Locus live tracking | + | OR |
| + | * go to Locus menu > more functions > Live Tracking | ||
| + | * tap the **stop button at the active profile**\\ {{ : | ||
| + | ===== Profiles | ||
| + | Configurations of your live tracking sessions are stored in **Profiles**. You can maintain several profiles at once and use them on different occasions. | ||
| + | |||
| + | **To START live tracking in selected profile**, tap the green arrow button:\\ {{ : | ||
| - | If you want to monitor and be monitored by a **particular group of users** (family, friends, colleagues, team mates...), you must define your **own live tracking | + | **To STOP live tracking in selected profile**, tap the red square button as was mentioned above. |
| - | <WRAP center round important> | + | ==== Auto-start ==== |
| - | This feature is available on **Live | + | It is possible to **start a live tracking |
| - | </ | + | * open **Live |
| - | {{ : | + | |
| - | ==== Adding a new room ==== | + | * on the next Locus Map launch, the Live Tracking will be automatically started in the selected profile |
| - | * tap **Edit** in the action menu of a live tracking | + | ==== Active profile ==== |
| - | * go to **Rooms** and tap **Manage** (or Select) | + | Profile that is being used for actual |
| - | * tap {{: | + | |
| - | * change | + | |
| - | * the new room appears under **Rooms** in the profile settings dialog | + | |
| - | * tap **Manage** again and then action menu {{: | + | - **group sharing** button |
| - | * select {{: | + | ==== Adding profiles ==== |
| - | | + | |
| - | ==== Accessing a new room ==== | + | To add a new profile, tap {{: |
| - | There are two options: | + | ==== Editing profiles |
| + | To edit a profile, tap the profile tab in the list:\\ {{ : | ||
| - | **1)** when sharing the access key to a room Locus generates also a **direct link** to it which, | + | |
| + | * you can add a **message | ||
| + | * **frequency of updating** | ||
| + | * **groups** - list of groups of users of which the profile is a member. When there is no particular group listed, the profile is **public**. By tapping | ||
| + | * **positive feedback** - swich on if you need to know if the live tracking | ||
| + | * **negative feedback** - swich on if you need to know if the live tracking stops working (loss of GSM or GPS signal) | ||
| + | * **display last shared position** - your icon stays on map on your last fixed position for 10 more minutes even when you are offline | ||
| - | **2)** similarly to adding your own room go to the **Room manager** > {{: | + | ==== Deleting profiles ==== |
| - | ===== Setting | + | To delete |
| - | You can maintain several Live tracking | + | ===== Group management ===== |
| + | Groups for sharing your real-time position with particular people can be **created, edited and deleted** in a live tracking group manager. | ||
| - | * tap {{: | + | ==== Adding a group to a profile |
| - | * Add **name of the session** | + | * open group manager |
| - | * the profile | + | * tap a selected group |
| - | * Insert your **nickname** | + | * group is added:\\ {{ : |
| - | * Set **frequency of updates** | + | |
| - | * Set **notification** | + | |
| - | * **Tap {{:manual: | + | |
| - | {{ : | + | |
| - | All other Locus users who have this feature **ON** | + | In this case, your realtime position is now shared with two independent groups of users. |
| + | ==== Creating | ||
| + | <WRAP center round info> | ||
| + | This feature is available | ||
| + | </ | ||
| - | * //location coordinates// | + | * tap {{: |
| - | * //description// - contains | + | * change **icon**, enter **name** and **description** of the new group, tap **Add**.\\ {{ : |
| - | * //altitude, speed, azimuth, accuracy of his GPS and date/ | + | * the new group appears under **Groups** in the profile configuration |
| - | {{ : | + | * tap **Manage** again and then action menu {{: |
| + | * select {{: | ||
| + | * Locus generates a **key** that you can share with the members of the group via e-mail, SMS etc. - with this key they can **enter your live tracking group**.\\ {{ : | ||
| - | Live tracking can be **stopped** | + | ==== Joining a group ==== |
| + | There are two options: | ||
| - | ===== Web services ===== | + | **1)** when sharing the access key to a group Locus generates also a **direct link** to it which, if clicked in a device with Locus installed, calls Locus > live tracking > your group. |
| - | | + | **2)** similarly to adding your own group go to the **Group manager** |
| + | ==== Live chat ==== | ||
| + | Users joined in a group live tracking can **communicate in real time** via live chat. It can be accessed from the **main map screen**:\\ {{ : | ||
| + | === Send places === | ||
| - | This feature enables real time monitoring of Locus Map user's position in selected web-based services. We have pre-set two for you - **[[http:// | + | When live chatting, |
| - | ==== GPSies.com | + | === Toggle among groups === |
| + | When you are live tracking in more groups | ||
| + | === Notifications === | ||
| + | You are **notified when a new chat message comes**. You can choose **a beep, your own sound or vibration**: | ||
| + | ===== Custom live tracking ===== | ||
| - | - before using this web service make sure to **register** | + | <WRAP center round info> |
| - | - go to // | + | This feature is available |
| - | - launch Live tracking | + | </ |
| - | - name your new GPSies session or leave just " | + | |
| - | - tap the session in the list and a new dialog appears | + | |
| - | - insert your **GPSies username** | + | |
| - | - optionally you can set the notification section | + | |
| - | - tap the green **START** | + | |
| - | **Your position begins to display in the map window of GPSies.com Live Tracking service.** | ||
| - | ==== C-ME ==== | + | Do you want to start **live tracking |
| - | + | ==== Add new... | |
| - | [[http:// | + | |
| - | + | ||
| - | ===== Custom live tracking ===== | + | |
| - | * <wrap info> | + | Here you can configure all parameters of live tracking on your own. |
| - | All parameters of live tracking feature can be configurable here. The setup is therefore dependent | + | * **name** your new livetracking configuration |
| + | * it displays as a **new profile** in the list | ||
| + | * tap it and go on setting up:\\ {{ : | ||
| **The main parameters** | **The main parameters** | ||
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| * update parameters of time and distance | * update parameters of time and distance | ||
| * required accuracy | * required accuracy | ||
| - | * base URL | + | |
| Live tracking data handling: | Live tracking data handling: | ||
manual/user_guide/functions/live_tracking.txt · Last modified: 2022/04/07 14:40 by mstupka
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