Getting started
A phone as the tracker
Any phone can be the tracker, with our app or with Traccar Client, before you buy hardware.
The LemursEye app does this properly: press Start, it sends a position every 10 seconds, press End and the trip is recorded. See The LemursEye app as a tracker, which is the recommended route.
The rest of this page covers the alternative: the free Traccar Client app, which speaks the OsmAnd protocol the bridge accepts on port 5055. It is useful for a quick test on an iPhone, which the LemursEye app does not cover yet.
Set up the app
- Install Traccar Client from the Play Store or App Store.
- Device identifier: any number you choose, for example
69353530. This is the "IMEI" you will register in the console. - Server URL:
http://gps.lemurseye.com:5055(the public tracker endpoint). - Frequency: 10 seconds while testing. Phones throttle background apps, so expect gaps when the screen is off.
- Start the service.
Register it in the console
In Fleet, register a tracker with the same identifier, protocol Phone app (OsmAnd), and assign it to a vehicle. Positions appear on Live within seconds.
What a phone cannot do
- No ignition signal, so idle time is not counted: engine-on idle needs a wired tracker.
- GPS scatter indoors and in narrow streets is much worse than a roof antenna; expect short "trips" of a few metres when standing still under a roof. The stop radius in Settings absorbs some of this.
- Reporting stops when the OS kills the app.
For anything beyond a test, use a hardware tracker.