Waypoints#

If you've configured a geo-fence, a location message will contain the elements:

• radius (if its value is greater than 0): unit: meters
• description with the name you set for the waypoint
• event with a value of "enter" or "leave", depending on whether the device is entering or leaving a configured region, respectively.

If you set up a waypoint, the app publishes that waypoint (without the retain flag, irrespective of your general preference) to the base topic with /waypoint tacked onto the topic (e.g. owntracks/<user>/<device>/waypoint) with the payload for _type=waypoint as specified in the JSON page.

When you set up a waypoint (with a description and a radius), this waypoint is published to the broker with the current time stamp. If you update the waypoint definition on the device at a later stage, the waypoint is re-published, with the original timestamp, but with possibly new description and/or radius. To be precise, the tst timestamp is used as an identifier of the waypoint even if it is later modified on the device.

Subscribers to the broker (our apps and any other program) can avoid getting waypoints by subscribing to, say, owntracks/+/+; also broker ACLs can prohibit access to owntracks/+/+/waypoint for particular users if so desired. Conversely, all messages published by the apps (location and waypoint) are available with a subscription to owntracks/#.

The OwnTracks apps may keep track of waypoints, e.g. for displaying to users.