Description

This is simple gate tcp server between GPS tracker devices and Nextcloud PhoneTrack application (https://gitlab.com/eneiluj/phonetrack-oc).

Description of the protocols and work with the trackers borrowed from the project Traccar (https://traccar.org & https://github.com/traccar/traccar)

Protocols link: https://www.traccar.org/protocols/

Currently implemented watch and H02 protocol only.

Install

Installation process described for Ubuntu 18.04

Download archive file with latest version
https://github.com/AlexanderBekrenev/gps2nextcloud/raw/master/dist/gps2nextcloud-0.1.8.tar.gz

Install to system scheme:
sudo pip3 install --system gps2nextcloud-0.1.8.tar.gz

Make initial install:
sudo gps2nextcloud-install

Edit initial config file '/etc/gps2nextcloud/gps2nextcloud.ini' and change Nextcloud server name and YOUR_SESSION_TOKEN to real token value from Nextcloud PhoneTrace application

Run as systemd daemon

Create service file /etc/systemd/system/gps2nextcloud.service

[Unit]
Description=GPS Trackers to NextCloud PhoheTrack TCP gate
After=multi-user.target
[Service]
Type=idle
ExecStart=/usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/gps2nextcloud/server.py --config_file /etc/gps2nextcloud/gps2nextcloud.ini
Restart=always
StandardOutput=syslog
StandardError=syslog

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Check ExecStart line for your paths.

Start daemon: systemctl start gps2nextcloud

Enable daemon systemctl enable gps2nextcloud

Stop daemon: systemctl stop gps2nextcloud

Disable daemon systemctl disable gps2nextcloud

Check daemon status: systemctl status gps2nextcloud

Update

If you already have gps2nextcloud installed and working and you want to update the version, then you need to do the following:

• Download new version (change x.x.x to version number)

wget https://github.com/AlexanderBekrenev/gps2nextcloud/raw/master/dist/gps2nextcloud-x.x.x.tar.gz

• Uninstall old version

sudo pip3 uninstall gps2nextcloud

It does not affect your ini-file.

• Install new version

sudo pip3 install --system gps2nextcloud-0.1.8.tar.gz

• Restart daemon if you use it.

sudo systemctl restart gps2nextcloud

• Check daemon status

sudo systemctl status gps2nextcloud

It is show something like this:

 gps2nextcloud.service - GPS Trackers to NextCloud PhoheTrack TCP gate
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/gps2nextcloud.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
   Active: active (running) since Fri 2019-08-30 22:14:09 MSK; 6s ago
 Main PID: 32119 (python3)
    Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915)
   CGroup: /system.slice/gps2nextcloud.service
           ├─32119 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/gps2nextcloud/server.py --config_file /etc/gps2nextcloud/gps2nextcloud.ini
           └─32159 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/gps2nextcloud/server.py --config_file /etc/gps2nextcloud/gps2nextcloud.ini

авг 30 22:14:09 blackrock systemd[1]: Started GPS Trackers to NextCloud PhoheTrack TCP gate.
авг 30 22:14:09 blackrock python3[32119]: [INFO/gps2nextcloud_DummyGate] child process calling self.run()
авг 30 22:14:09 blackrock python3[32119]: [INFO/gps2nextcloud_WatchGate] child process calling self.run()
авг 30 22:14:09 blackrock python3[32119]: [INFO/gps2nextcloud_DummyGate] listening on localhost:5009

Changes

Change file