GPSTracker on home server - Page 7

lambosprit · 06-10-2009, 06:15 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Cerberus

Yep, Dumped the XML file and it created a new one and ran fine.

It doesn't say 'connected' when I'm away from home anymore. But it
doesn't seem to when I'm home and connected to the wireless either.

Didn't get any pins from the journey I just took. But I was only out
for 5 minutes (corner shop, should have walked really but I had a
good excuse to drive!). Except the now customary driveway pin
of course!

Dodgy xml attached

C

yup thats dodgy and thats what I've had. Not sure how to fix it though.

Can you send me your debug log. I put some extra debug in that should have said if it noticed a network connection or not and what happened when it did.

lambosprit · 06-23-2009, 11:22 AM

Just to keep those interested informed, I've been trying to crack Cerberus's problem. I think it could be any of a couple of things which is leading me towards changing the storage of the tracking data as a database rather than an xml file. This will allow lots of new stuff in terms of displaying the collected data as well. I'm still trying to keep this as simple as possible as its already quite a complicated install (I haven't heard if anyone except for me has it working yet) so hopefully there wont be any more setups or installs to do. Hopefully new version in a couple of days.

Toxic0n · 07-01-2009, 08:47 PM

I am going to try this out on my carPC tomorrow and let you know how it goes.

lambosprit · 07-02-2009, 07:04 AM

Well after a long wait here it is. The all new version 2.0. I found Cerberus's problem and have fixed it. I've completely rewritten the commuications between client and server and changed the data storage to be a sqlite database rather than xml. I picked this because its free (allways a good thing) and it doesn't require lots of extra installation (its one new dll that doesn't even need registering). If you want to look at the data stored then see the release notes for a link to a free program that allows you to do it.

Anyway find it on the first post and please leave any feedback bad or good.

lambosprit · 07-09-2009, 03:35 AM

Any one tried it yet?

Cerberus. Did it solve the problem you where having? It took me ages to fix it so I hope so.

hondabldr · 07-10-2009, 05:47 PM

I lost my external ip

So I havent had a chance to play with it.. I will try wifi when i get a min this week

Thanks for keeping at it!!!

lambosprit · 07-14-2009, 11:50 AM

Got myself a nice 3G mobile broadband setup now so will be testing this in real time mode as well now.

Also found out how to send pictures so will be adding a current webcam picture feature as well. It will rely on some other program taking the picture but will handle sending it to the server.

Sonicxtacy02 · 07-27-2009, 02:15 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by lambosprit

Got myself a nice 3G mobile broadband setup now so will be testing this in real time mode as well now.

Also found out how to send pictures so will be adding a current webcam picture feature as well. It will rely on some other program taking the picture but will handle sending it to the server.

how are you handling the connection with a 3g device as oppose to a wifi device. How are you connecting to your router when your 3g device is outside your network. I'm very interested in getting this app setup but im not sure how to make that initial IP connection. I'm using a verizon U760 mobile broadband card.

lambosprit · 08-09-2009, 05:19 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

how are you handling the connection with a 3g device as oppose to a wifi device. How are you connecting to your router when your 3g device is outside your network. I'm very interested in getting this app setup but im not sure how to make that initial IP connection. I'm using a verizon U760 mobile broadband card.

sorry for the slow reply. Been on holiday .

All the network connection stuff is handled by windows itself. For the client you dont need its ip address only the servers ip address.

The config file has an internal and external ip address. This is the servers ipaddress though, not the clients. If the clients network connection is a wireless one and has the same SSID as that defined in the config file then the internal address is used otherwise the external address is used.

Sonicxtacy02 · 08-13-2009, 05:48 PM

i got this installed per your instructions. The funny thing is when i launch the client app it sends a single point to the server.. but subequent points are not sent... the debug says the server isnt pingable... even though the server clearly is because one point has been sent. This happens each time i start the client app... one point uploads.. then nothing. Any ideas?

lambosprit · 08-17-2009, 11:09 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Sonicxtacy02

i got this installed per your instructions. The funny thing is when i launch the client app it sends a single point to the server.. but subequent points are not sent... the debug says the server isnt pingable... even though the server clearly is because one point has been sent. This happens each time i start the client app... one point uploads.. then nothing. Any ideas?

The way the app works is to try to send data when a network chnge occures i.e. everytime you get a new network connection. It checks to see if the network is an internet connection by trying to connect to http://www.microsoft.com/. If this passes then it looks to see if you've allowed the server to be pingable. This is set in the ini file. If it is then it trys to ping. If it recieves a response then it trys to send the data if not then it fails.

I think the debug message your seeing is the setting from your ini file as I default it to false.

I think whats happening is the client has sent its message, which the server has recieved (hence the one point) but the the server message sying its recieved the data is not being returned to the client. The client then goes into the no connection mode and waits for the specified retryperiod.

So the question is why does it think its not sent the data when it has.
Does the client say a current time for the server updated label?
Does the client seem to hang for a long time?
try setting your tracking period and retry period smaller. Say 10 secods and 15 seconds. That way you may see more points. It wont have solved your problem but it will narrow it down.
I assume that the server can see the client. By this I mean can it respond. have you got a firewall that will stop it from responding?

Can you send me your debug file to take a look.
I could add some extra debug and send you a special version if you pm me your email address.

Sonicxtacy02 · 08-17-2009, 11:51 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by lambosprit

Does the client say a current time for the server updated label?

Yes the initial connection specifies the time the server updated

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Does the client seem to hang for a long time?

No the client's CPU doesnt raise and i've seen no signs of it hanging

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I assume that the server can see the client. By this I mean can it respond. have you got a firewall that will stop it from responding?

Its very possible i'm missing a setting or something.. but there shouldnt be any firewall installed on my carPC and i've got the ports handled on the server. I guess i should check if windows firewall on the carpc is blocking the connection. In any event.. my debug log is attached and my email is sonicxtacy02@gmail.com. Thanks for your help

lambosprit · 08-17-2009, 05:16 PM

can't see any debug log. Am I missing it somewhere?

Some other things came to me.

Does the client say connected at the bottom (you need debuglevel of 5 for this to show).

Have you changed the timing settings or are they still 30 and 60?

Sonicxtacy02 · 08-17-2009, 05:41 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by lambosprit

can't see any debug log. Am I missing it somewhere?

Some other things came to me.

Does the client say connected at the bottom (you need debuglevel of 5 for this to show).

Have you changed the timing settings or are they still 30 and 60?

ah i forgot to post the log while i was at work. My appologies. I did play around with it some more and i got it working. I dont know if it was turning off windows firewall or reducing the timing options but its working great now

lambosprit · 08-18-2009, 07:02 AM

Great. Seeing as your the only one following this at the moment I'll update you on upcomming stuff.

Personnally I have more than one user on my server machine. What I'm finding is that if the user logged on isn't the one running the software it doesn't track anything...obvious I know. But to solve this I'm working on changing the server to be a service and adding a gui to display whats happening when required. this has a problem though in that its very difficult to have a gui on a service. So if an alert or sos comes in there is nothing displayed.So I then need to make a tray app that will show an alert.

So I'm converting the current server to a service + gui app + tray app. What do you think? Is it a good idea?

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