android VS OwnTracks Recorder

The only private alternatives are going to be self hosted and will require some technical skill. See owntracks for details.

I use Owntracks.

On your side, you need some way to be tracked. Easy solution is an app on your phone, I like OwnTracks as a privacy-respecting option.

It also allows me to keep Owntracks checked for updates while they sort out their current issue regarding being missing from F-Droid.

Sounds like owntracks with a android headunit https://owntracks.org/

OwnTracks is app people can install on their phones that you can setup to send live gps coordinates back to your web server.

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.