No "Discard offline locations" toggle, but it does anyway
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I'm using the custom URL feature, sending to my own hosted server and putting the locations in a DB for display on an OSM map. Works fine.
However it doesn't send cached locations if network connectivity is lost. I need it to.
-I tried this two ways: going into aeroplane mode and out; and connecting the phone's WiFi to my caravan homemade gadget which doesn't give Internet access.
I can't find the "Discard offline locations" toggle mentioned in documentation. Has it been removed?
GPSLogger version is 124. Phone is SGS9, Android 10.
The discard offline feature hasn't been released yet, that will be in the next release (no timeline). The normal behavior is that if you're offline, locations do get cached then sent later. If that's not working you'll want to have a look at the 'log view' to see if there are any errors being thrown when you're expecting nothing to be happening, that could indicate that the device thinks you have internet access but actually you don't. You can also try a debug log as shown in the troubleshooting section.
Thanks for the quick reply. I will try some logging.
-It is confusing to have the current documentation contain features not in the current released version.
Yes I probably should have added that in later, lesson for next time, it was the simplest way to manage the pull request with my limited time.
Hi there,
I'm just facing this "issue" today, it seem that, somehow, my phone turn offline this morning and log a lot of location, as for many hours now I got url push every seconds for many points (more than one per sec)
This may be caused by using passive record that I've just try to test, I'm not sure
But since, this is basically stuck, is there a way to make it faster if I cant discard them? (I would be a bit annoying to have to drop all the app data just for this :/)
There's no simple way I can think of, because the offline jobs that get created aren't direct files on disk as far as I've seen. You could try saving the profile which gives you a file with the various properties in it, but not all properties. Then reset the app and restore the profile file. But you'd still have to look around and restore missing properties like passwords.
Still way better than having to reset everything as I was planning :)
I did not know this feature was a thing, thanks a lot for the tip!
Last night on the xmas dinner trip to relatives, I put the phone in aeroplane mode for part of the drive, both ways.
Log view going there, detailed view coming home, then app closed, as I normally use it.
The whole trip was recorded correctly!!! No idea why the change in behaviour.
So maybe close this issue as unable to reproduce. I'll revisit it if it happens again (and try logging).
Installed 125. Can confirm that the "Discard offline locations" toggle now appears on the custom URL page.
(I will leave it off.)