Is anyone using a GPS tracker that reports your position live, like APRS does?
The idea being that you could share a website (or app?) with friends and family that would allow them to see your progress.
Charlie
I use Greenalp.com (free) with an Android phone so the spouse can watch flights in my non-APRS equipped biplane. I think they now have an option for iPhone users.
Aircraft with ADSB Out (non anonymous) can be followed live*using sites/apps like FlightAware.
* in real world testing, there is a delay of a couple of minutes
I use Greenalp.com (free) with an Android phone so the spouse can watch flights in my non-APRS equipped biplane. I think they now have an option for iPhone users.
Sorry Sam no Greenalp for IOS just Android
(from the Greenalp forum)
Hi,
I'm really sorry, but there are no plans to create an iPhone version. There is an online tracking tool http://www.greenalp.com/meet which works for iPhone too. But it won't store tracks, it shows only the current location of every user in your group. Location of a user will be updated only while s/he is watching the map. As soon as the users leaves the page location updating for that user will be stopped.
I was reading the greenalp website and one thing that I read that kind of threw me was......"usually tracking works only if the tracked phone is connected to the Internet. However, there is one exception. If Internet is not available, you can send a SMS remote command, and the tracker will send back a SMS containing the GPS coordinates..."
The "connected to the internet" wording (to me) suggest that tracking would not work in the air if you were only getting satellite signals and not ground based cellular (data) connection. But the fact that several of you use this in the air, I wonder if the person who wrote the above statement mis-spoke....
I do like that you can control the app somewhat with messaging. And if you can send messages via satellite that is really nice....especially for a free app....
Charlie
I usually use the app at low altitudes so broadband service is available. I don't know how high is too high for solid broadband service. This may not be a good app for many users, I just mentioned it because I rolled the dice on the Play Store and it works quite well for me. I leave the map running on the desktop in my home office when flying and my bride can see the biplane roaming around the county (and when I leave the 'drome headed for the house). The RV has ADS-B out in addition to APRS and Flightaware (Executive account due to running a PiAware receiver) sends her texts when the RV takes off and lands. There is no hiding with all that stuff running.....
We have been using this:
https://www.cloudahoy.com
Not free but it's an awesome product. The students hate it!
I find that flight aware only provides data if planes has 1090es transponder OR you are on filed flight plane OR flight following. Using 978 UAT with mode S sniffing transponder will not produce out put on Flight Aware. This has been my experience YMMV
I’ve heard it’s hit or miss for some but for me, it has worked 100% with the stock Skyview 978 UAT setup with NO flight plan or flight following for the last 3 years.
Now with ADSB Flightaware works pretty well.
www.flightaware.com
If you stand up a Rasberry Pi you can get the free Enterprise account and have unlimited people in your list so you know when all your buddies are flying. It will send you a text.
https://flightaware.com/adsb/piaware/build
Ha!
I can hear it now....."Whadda mean I busted minimums, no way!"....
Charlie
Is anyone using a GPS tracker that reports your position live, like APRS does?
The idea being that you could share a website (or app?) with friends and family that would allow them to see your progress.
Charlie
Why not just use APRS? It works great and the service is free.
Bevan
I use Greenalp.com (free) with an Android phone so the spouse can watch flights in my non-APRS equipped biplane. I think they now have an option for iPhone users.
I have the Dynon transponder, so if need be simply refer people to FlightAware or FR24 for live tracking and for historical data, I tend to use ADSBExchange.Is anyone using a GPS tracker that reports your position live, like APRS does?
The idea being that you could share a website (or app?) with friends and family that would allow them to see your progress.
Charlie
I got a reply from Greenalp and they said that the app has to have internet to download the flight to view on a map. Hence based on what I have been told it seems to me that this is more of a data recording device and would not report position "live" while you were in the air.
Charlie
No, it definitely reports live much like APRS, my wife has watched me in flight and the little bubble refreshes every few seconds (not sure of the exact interval).
Just try it....it's free......
Greenalp definitely requires a cell connection OR internet availability. I cannot explain what your wife is seeing, but I can say with 100% cofidence that a cellular or internet connection is required for an up to the minute position.
For further information:
https://www.greenalp.com/RealTimeTracker/index.php?page=intro
Click "Can the tracker send the location without internet connection?"
I agree, and that is what I stated in one of my earlier posts (#17) about the app. I'm not trying to promote this app....wish I had never mentioned it so I could continue to use it in anonymity.... I just wanted to offer the OP another option for his original inquiry.
I think this discussion has gotten garbled somewhere.