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davidcole

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#3156028 4-Nov-2023 22:31

Stealth doesn’t bother me, it’s my car I’m tracking mostly for interests sake. My first unit had both antennas. Current 3G on just has gps antenna.

I’d prefer a little battery backup as well (for say if car towed). And I don’t think it’s possible, but one with a dns client.

If you’d is working is it worth fiddling with apn? Are you using their software or have you moved it to traccar?

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CGNAT

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#3156285 5-Nov-2023 17:28

Using the trackers own websites atm. Traccar on the other hand is still being a pain. With enough study time, I should be able to solve it.

davidcole

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#3156291 5-Nov-2023 17:40

The main thing is to work out your trackers command for setting ip and port.

Next is working out what port to open/protocol. But a quick post on the traccar website will get the answer to that.

Though you having cgnat makes things harder.

I wouldn’t be happy posting gps and location data to something I don’t host. But that’s IMO

CGNAT

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#3156381 5-Nov-2023 20:59

Thanks for those thoughts. ATM, I can't get that far as Traccar won't even open.

Tested the device today on road. Everything works. Even the route was shown with all the details. The device still works behind steel panels and in a tin shed and all on 1 bar of signal strength.

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#3156616 6-Nov-2023 10:38

Oh btw, evidently am not behind cgnat any more so that's one thing I won't have to go into armed battle with. What a royal PITA that was over the years. I did learn a lot though but if I had to do it again, I can't remember how I did it. Use it or lose it.

Question: how much power consumption monthly cost does your server system use?

davidcole

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#3156619 6-Nov-2023 10:46

CGNAT:

Question: how much power consumption monthly cost does your server system use?

Wouldn't have the foggiest. But it runs so much I don't care, plex, jellyfin and associated, paperless for PDf archiving, nextcloud.

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#3156647 6-Nov-2023 12:36

Yes, more curious than anything. There's a lot to like about in-house stuff etc. For a start you don't have to rely on anyone else's level of reliabilty. Then there's the security aspect. Plus anything else could disrupt a farmed out service like storms, wars or politics.

I'd really like to know why my other SIMs didn't work. I wasted too much time on those based on wrong assumptions.

TechnoGuy001

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#3156681 6-Nov-2023 14:03

CGNAT:

Oh btw, evidently am not behind cgnat any more so that's one thing I won't have to go into armed battle with. What a royal PITA that was over the years. I did learn a lot though but if I had to do it again, I can't remember how I did it. Use it or lose it.

Question: how much power consumption monthly cost does your server system use?

"Servers" don't need to be like a full on enterprise style rack mount server which will likely use a chunk of power. Server can be whatever you want, like a Raspberry Pi. Though don't expect blazing speeds.

Personally I got an old Mac mini, put an SSD in it and installed debian. It's been running rock solid since I bought it. On 24/7 for years now. And relatively low power.

I run a bunch of stuff on it, like Plex, Overseerr, Frigate (2 cams), Caddy, PHP, Tailscale (get around CGNAT), Crater (invoicing), Home Assistant and a bunch of custom scripts doing ffmpeg processing. (including for a time, tracking server container).

My point being, you can setup a server to use as much or little power as you want. If your just going to run a server for car tracking, pretty much anything will run that.

davidcole

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#3156685 6-Nov-2023 14:08

I can’t remember if I ever ran traccar on a pi.

TechnoGuy001

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#3156689 6-Nov-2023 14:18

The docker container has an image for arm64, and can't imagine traccar is doing much more then running a web server and db. Should work on a Pi.

Though, personally I tend to avoid Pi's due to them being arm. While usually ok, sometimes only x86 builds available, and I don't want to need to manage updates etc myself when building from source.