Build new livetracking.io service form old livetracking.io components?

Peter Gamma over 5 years ago

The goal is to discuss the livetracking.io service, which has stopped. livetracking.io is not a Connect IQ

service, but I could not find another place in the forum to start a thread which was suitable, so I start it here.

Nils Knieling livetracking.io

https://livetracking.io/

was a free and open source live tracking service. It had the components:

- ipbike

- an open source server

- influx data base

- it was possible to visualize live-tracking activity in grafana

Most of the components of livetracking.io are a free and open source components which are available independent from livetracking.io

When livetracking.io was still running, I send Nils Knieling an e-mail and asked the question to him, whether it was possible to use livetracking.io to stream sensor data to Matlab.

He answered me, that he does not know Matlab, but it should work.

Then I started a thread in the THIS IS ANT Forum (yoyo2014 alias Peter Gamma):

https://www.thisisant.com/forum/viewthread/7074

where I asked whether it is possible to stream ant+ sensor data from IpBike to livetracking.io and from there to Matlab.

there was no answer in the THIS IS ANT forum to this question.

Then suddenly the livetracking.io was stopped. My hypothesis is, that Nils Knieling stopped the service, because the service would have made it possible for every Matlab user to stream sensor data from IpBike to Matlab, and that he wanted to prevent this.

I asked Nils Knieling whether it was possible to get the components of livetracking.io, but there was no answer from Nils.

I asked Nils whether he could integrate livetracking.io into VELO HERO, and would be interested in buying a monthly subscription of VELO HERO when this service would be available.

But Nils answered, he had no plans to do so.

I miss livetracking io. Two bikers in the forum of IpBike posted, that they miss livetracking io, too:

http://www.iforpowell.com/cms/index.php?mact=Forum,m862f6,topic,1&m862f6prev_link=default&m862f6fid=2&m862f6tid=646&m862f6post_pagenumber=1&m862f6returnid=73&page=73

There is some code left from livetracking.io of on Nils Cyclenerd github:

https://github.com/livetracking/livetracking.github.io

is it possible to put all the free and open source components of livetracking.io together to build a new livetracking.io service?

Peter Gamma over 5 years ago

There is a video on youtube fom Nils Knieling which shows how to set up live tracking in the Android app IpBike https://livetracking.io/

IpBike - livetracking.io - Android App for Live Tracking (Cycling, Running, Triathlon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgOifBgPqaA

I started a new repository on my GITHUB "What-happened-to-livetrack.io?"

https://github.com/PeterGamma/What-happened-to-livetrack.io-/blob/master/README.md

Any contributors are wellcome to this project.

Peter Gamma over 5 years ago in reply to Peter Gamma

I set up a GITHUB to participate on a project to build up a new livetracking service. Nils Knieling livetracking.io was attractive, since it was free and open source, and it required only low-cost components (only IpBike required, no ANT+ stick required, no expensive watch required).

I found out to build up, to participate and to get components from another GITHUB member requires an invitation by e-mail from the other GITHUB member. Contact is established by e-mail, and the other member can send an invitation.

I contacted Nils Knieling a view times by e-mail, since livetracking.io is attractive not only to me, but also to other people who miss livetracking.io. Unfortunately, I was not successful.

Is Nils Knieling not interested in the developement of livetracking.io?

Peter Gamma over 5 years ago in reply to Peter Gamma

Currently, the price of a licence of an ant+ live-stream with LabVIEW is:

- LabVIEW Professional Development software annual fee of $100

- The ANT+ Toolkit for LabVIEW is $1,500.00

Also the free and open source service https://livetracking.io/ would have been suitable for a an ant+ live-stream, before the service was stopped. I tried several times to contact Nils Knieling, the developer of https://livetracking.io/. Unfortunately, I was not successful. So I m asking my questions here:

What does Nils Knieling want?

1. Is he looking for developers, as it was written in the description of https://livetracking.io/ ?

2. Is https://livetracking.io/ buggy, and needs developement?

3. Does he want to sell https://livetracking.io/ ?