View live map of single device?

[aszymanik]

I'd like to view the live map of a single device. The live map presently shows all users and all devices but there are times when we're only interested in one device and the autozoom/autopan feature makes it harder to follow a single device. When the devices/users are far apart, the autozoom is too zoomed out to see any of the clients clearly. Finally, by being able to view only one device at a time, I can share a view URL without giving up the privacy of all users tracked.

Insecurely, I can modify ws_connect() of last/websock.js to filter devices in ws.onmessage but this is ugly and is hardcoded. Using jquery can clean this up a bit but from a privacy standpoint, all devices are still being transmitted to the web client and we have to trust he/she has not removed filtering (and thus locations of everyone else).

This issue could possibly be solved by allowing /ws/last to take a param and send to send_last() in http.c such that only one device is emitted.

Thanks

[jpmens]

You've certainly done your homework! :-)

I cannot work on this, but if you're up to creating a pull request, I'd certainly look at it and take it. I agree that the last method you speak of (/ws/last takes a parameter) would be the cleanest; apart from privacy it's the way to limit the amount of data going to the websocket, so that's what I'd prefer.

[ghost]

Seconded!

[jpmens]

Closing as stale, and directing to OwnTracks Fronted.

[jmhunter]

For others interested in this, you can follow the discussion at owntracks/frontend#5 which seems related (but I'm not sure will provide the 'live' aspect?)