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Hi Bas,
I saw you coming in on Btraced :)
i will mail you soon the sample PHP code
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Lots of technical information about Btraced is now the btraced forum
http://forum.btraced.com
Needs to grow, but its a start:)
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Just got it from the Appstore..
Really curious to find out what the Battery life impact is..

Where can I find detailed instructions? example:
- Copy xxx.asp to your homeseer html folder
- Create MySQL DB by running xxxx.asp
- Point the iPhone app to the xxx.asp on your HS server
(create user xxx + pwd first in HS?)
etc.

Has anyone modified the script to run with 'local .MDB' files instead of mySQL?
That makes it easier to integrate with the existing scripts that I have which use an .MDB file as database

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Check these topics for the Btraced protocol
http://forum.btraced.nl/viewforum.php?f=6

There is a existing script used for homeseer which is called Snelv, it can handle a xml which are uploaded to HS?
Should not be hard to adjust this.
I dont have HS, otherwise i would create a script.
I think its a matter of time.
The sample asp script which is on the forum is also easy to adjust.
Php will follow soon
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Are there any experiences with Btraced and Homeseer yet?
Interested in your solution/set-up.
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Same here... Bought the app but don't have time to create the Homeseer integration myself. I do have a MySQL server but that's at a hosting provider which doesn't support ASP(X).
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Today we started developing an Android version for Btraced Track & Trace.
We received many requests for this so we had to start

Also today a fix update version 1.1.4 for the Btraced iPhone version.

What's new on version 1.1.4?

- Fixed a problem that the GPS signal suddenly stops in iOS 6 in background
- Fixed real-time upload issues in iOS 6
- Minor Bug Solved: Changed the default altitude value when it is not present to -32000
- Minor bug solved: the upload status bar sometimes did not show the latest information. This only occured when Btraced was in the background or when the screensaver was activated.

the updated protocol can be found here
http://forum.btraced.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=10#p510

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Why do you use XML? XML results in a lot of overhead which is very relevant when using 3G for communication. A better option would be to use JSON.
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Agree about that, we are thinking to do both later.
But first the Android version :)
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And only send the LAT or LON if that changes, not both.
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there is an option to just upload the point when moved x meters
complete set is uploaded then, only sending Lat or Lon in that case?
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I assume that travelling exactly N,E,S or W is not that common, so not sending both L&L will not have such a big impact on data reduction.
Maybe when also watching altitude and everything else that's being sent.
I do agree on using JSON instead of XML; that will definitely reduce the amount of useless bytes.
Says a non-BTraced user :wink:
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