@Sean There are apps that track your position and update this information online. A very popular one is Endomondo, a sports activity tracker. When someone is doing an activity his/her Endomondo contacts can see where that person is in real time. Similar thing is available in Strava, however in this case it is a premium (paid) feature.

I’m a Starva user and my first attempt to make my own module will be to enable showing my position on the mirror to my wife, who is always calling when I’m commuting back from work on my bike and asking me about my arrival time… So I strongly support any advancement in other users’ efforts in this respect.

@Santanachia Cool! I will check it out. Thanks!

@Santanachia
Hi,
Thank you for this module. I’ve been using it for a while now. I have two questions and one suggestion.

Let’s start with questions first - is it possible to have two invocations of the module from the config.js file? One for one location and second for second? I tried it but in both cases I receive data for the first station. Do you have any idea why?

The second question is how to change the size of the font saying e.g. “PM10 Dobra” - in my opinion it is too large.

And the suggestion is the following - you have this option in the config syntax to show the value. For me the value is more informative than the text description, so I would like to hide the text description, but as fas as I know, it is not possible, is it? So the suggestion is to make another option in the config file to hide the text description and use only values.

Anyway, great work! Thank you once again.
Cheers!
Michal

Hi djo,
I am having exactly the same idea and problem. My wife and I use a cooking blog on a mobile phone and it is very easy to send a link with a particular recipe to a given email address with the link in the body of the email. Based on that my solution (not tested yet) is the following.

1. Setup an email client and a parser on your Raspberry so that the url is taken out of the email and written down to a separate file. Example here.

2. Use one of these modules iFrame or iFrame Reload to load the contents of a html file. The difficulty here is that the file is not on the Internet but it’s a local file.

3. The parser from 1 can construct the local file in such a way that it contains another iFrame pointing out at our url with the recipe.

4. We need a way to get rid of the recipe from the screen after, say, an hour. This is something to be worked out. Maybe the second module can handle that. Or any other way - voice, another mail, etc.?

This is my rough thinking. I will be testing it quite soon. Let you know about the results.

@Sean
Both Endomondo and Strava are tracking your position only when you activate the exercise.

In Endomondo users get this feature for free - they can open their browsers or run the smartphone app to see which of their Endomondo friends do something and where they are. However, as you mentioned, Endomondo has no API available for public.

In case of Strava, when you start your activity you can select an option for Strava to send by text message to predefined contacts a link to a website with your activity, map and position online. It is called a Beacon and it is paid. Users have checked that in fact anyone who has the link can visit this page and see the location. Whereas all other features are well described in the API manual (http://strava.github.io/api/partner/) the Beacon feature is empty. Maybe if you are a premium member they will reveal the contents of this part.

In my opinion you are not limited to these two apps. There must be plenty of others, particularly those designed to track children etc.

@Sean There are apps that track your position and update this information online. A very popular one is Endomondo, a sports activity tracker. When someone is doing an activity his/her Endomondo contacts can see where that person is in real time. Similar thing is available in Strava, however in this case it is a premium (paid) feature.

I’m a Starva user and my first attempt to make my own module will be to enable showing my position on the mirror to my wife, who is always calling when I’m commuting back from work on my bike and asking me about my arrival time… So I strongly support any advancement in other users’ efforts in this respect.