How to remove POI?

[gitjax]

Hi just getting started with owntracks and enjoying it alot so far. I have the app installed on my iphone. One thing that I cannot find or understand is how to remove a "POI" once I have created one? Any help would be much appreciated.

[ckrey]

The device stores a small number of past locations (controlled by the Settings parameter positions, which defaults to 50). The POIs are part in these locations and are displayed until the location is deleted. Or in other words: the POIs disappear after a short while.

[jpmens]

the POIs disappear after a short while

In addition to what @ckrey says, do understand the disappearance will be in the phone's UI only: to POI itself is also transmitted to the backend (i.e. OwnTracks Recorder) and is saved there together with the location at which the POI was submitted.

[gitjax]

Thanks for feedback :-)

Maybe I misunderstand the usecase for a POI. If it "dissapears" from the phone's UI, should I be able to "see it" in another way? I run the owntracks-frontend and I can't see it there, neither when browsing the recorder in a webgui. (I am not using mqtt)

[jpmens]

I don't think you've misunderstood. :)

There's currently no easy way to see the POI, at least not until support for them has been added to our Frontend.

It is possible to obtain them via GeoJSON from the Recorder's API, and you might want to then plot the resulting list on, say, https://geojson.io/

[jpmens]

I forgot to demonstrate what that would look like:

The data I pasted into the right hand side of the form stems from my own Recorder:

$ ocat \
	-u username \
	-d devicename \
	--format geojsonpoi \
	--from 2023-12-17 \
	--to 2024-01-05T23:04

[gitjax]

Ah, right. Thanks. I am assuming the same goes for "tags"?

Speaking of tags ... I installed version 2.12.0 of the frontend (which is what "latest" corresponds to now), but I noticed that the "main" and "nightly" tags have a lot more (recent) activity. What's the status on running one of those? Would I have more features? cheers

[jpmens]

I don't think we surface tags at all at the moment ...

I really cannot answer your question re Frontend; I think @linusg is still working at replace large portions of it.

[linusg]

I've been too busy with other things lately and progress stalled a bit, but indeed there's a number of unreleased commits right now that you'd get from main or nightly: https://github.com/owntracks/frontend/compare/v2.12.0...main

(a lot of it is replacing deprecated tooling, but some user-facing things as well)

I'll try to implement POIs before tagging the next release, hopefully soon :^)

[ckrey]

Closing the issue as answered. The progress on the frontend enhancement is tracked here: owntracks/frontend#107