Hauk VS OwnTracks Recorder

Hmm. My favorite thing I never actually used — Hauk. Location sharing. I.e. install app on your phone, it creates a link that you can send to someone, and they would see your location on a map on your server.

If you only run official containers from popular repositories, and not less known repositories (which carry more risk), then the normal Rootful Docker is fine.\ I like running smaller projects such as https://github.com/bilde2910/Hauk/, so just in case the Docker image gets infected because e.g. the dev gets hacked, I run Rootless Docker to prevent damage.

If you don't mind self-hosting, check out Hauk.

Hauk https://github.com/bilde2910/Hauk (my first choice)

I'm not sure if this is what you want, but there's something called Hauk you can host yourself.

Some people have issues installing Own Track's Recorder - This one is very minimal and saves your locations to an sqlite file.

I also use OwnTracks on my phone and installed OwnTracks Recorder on my server. I skimmed over my blog post for that but I don't think there's much useful for you there.

I've looked at OwnTracks, Orion, and Hauk.

As far as I know, owntracks doesn't actually store location history, it only defines a protocol for exchanging current location info between programs. If you're using their "official" recording server, writing a script to import history looks super easy [1].

[0] https://github.com/owntracks/recorder/blob/master/doc/STORE....

After setting up the client side, a server-side component to receive the OwnTracks app's requests is still missing. OwnTracks ships with its Recorder, which is a small and simple web application written in C. However, I did not like it a lot, as it does not look particularly beautiful and is very limited regarding its functionality. I rather wanted to visualize my data in Grafana. But to get it there, it first needs to be persisted to a database.