A great resource if you don’t know the settings is FileSaveAs or alternatively your mobile provider will be able to tell you. In my case, it was COM6 but yours may vary, you can open Device Manager on your computer and look under the ‘Ports’ section to double check what it is for you.ĭepending on the SIM card and mobile network you intend to use the tracker on, you will need to setup the appropriate GPRS settings in the centre of the configurator, in the screenshot below mine are set up for a Vodafone UK contract SIM card. Fire up the configurator software and select the correct COM port from the drop-down list at the top of the screen. Then, grab a mini USB cable and plug it into your Windows-based computer. You will need a 12v power supply (either a battery or mains adapter) for your tracker to be able to configure it, connect up the leads as referred in the user manual (on the FTP site above, but it’s straight forward and if you are reading this article chances are you know the red cable is positive and the black cable is negative and can connect them accordingly. The user manual and a wealth of other useful information is also contained on the FTP site there so feel free to have a browse around there. You’ll need a copy of the configuration software for it which is available from the Ruptela FTP site (if you are prompted for a username and password, they are both ‘ftp’). This post is mostly about configuring the Ruptela tracker itself but I’d be happy to answer any questions about the server side if things if necessary just post a comment and I’ll get back to you. It’s worth noting that you need to install the original project first, and then the modified version is an ‘add-on’ for it in a way.įrom here, go to the relevant websites above and setup your Traccar server. If you just want a basic tracking platform then stick with the original Traccar. I would highly recommend this modified version to anyone who wan’t to experiment with various sensors, inputs and outputs. When browsing for suitable software for this tracker, I stumbled upon a modified version of Traccar which has hundreds of additional features that are not included with the original version. I’m posting this information that I have used to get my Ruptela FM-Eco3 tracker working with the free open-source tracking software, Traccar. The provider, whilst very low-cost, also had a very limited feature set to match it. Why MQTT? Well, because we do lots of good things with MQTT.I’m currently repurposing an old vehicle tracking device that I had with a tracking provider. We have a small utility named from-traccar which implements an HTTP server which republishes incoming positions and events to an MQTT broker. If you configure forward.json to be true, the query-string GET parameters are not substituted instead a body containing a JSON payload is POSTed to the forward.url. An example for an enter event (called geofenceEnter in Traccar-speak) is (slightly shortened): the reverse-geo-coded address if available Whenever Traccar notifies of an event or receives a position, it bundles up some data as JSON and POSTs this to our configured endpoint. So what I’m going to is to tell Traccar to give me all this data. Traccar can be instructed to submit an HTTP POST whenever it receives a position report from a device and whenever it would otherwise notify one of the built-in methods (mail, Web, SMS). The former works, and we’ve had that working for the better part of a year, but the latter is a more solid approach. Configure position and/or event forwarding in Traccar.Use an SMPP server which obtains the payload and does something clever with it.What does a guy do who wants to manipulate notifications and do other things with them? Basically there are two choices: These events can be configured to be issued to Web (meaning the Traccar Web interface where they slide in from below), Mail, or SMS (which in the case of Traccar means a configured SMPP server). For example when a device enters or leaves a geofence or, if the device has support for it, notifying that ignition has been switched. The Traccar server component has rather good support for notifying a user of a particular event. Position and event forwarding from Traccar
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