Not to my knowledge, no.

Google spent a lot of time developing sandboxed environments and now they want to tear it all down…

Can you just pack an Android TV device? Its about the size of a hockey puck but half as thick. + a small remote.

I mean, they’re going to accelerate the pace, obviously…

I dunno, can they?

1. Is it not possible to put it in another room?
2. Those servers are designed to go into a dedicated server room without regard to noise. Could you relocate it to a new enclosure?

They don’t seem to like anyone very much.

Even my friend with a tesla had issues.

Not going to discount their experience but I feel like mine should be equally valid. I take 3-4 road trips/year with nary an issue other than 1 or 2 stalls being down or a short wait during the holiday season at a packed charging station, over the last 4+ years.

having to wait 20 minutes for the car to charge when you have kids or whatever is obnoxious.

After 4+ hours of driving, I am more than ready for a short break. I will typically stay stopped for longer than it even takes to charge while I get something to eat.

That’s very cool. Excuse my ignorance but couldn’t Dell and Lenovo just…write their own firmware?

my friends have told me horror stories of getting to to charging stations and finding them broken, getting stranded.

Its an unfortunate reality. My first BEV was a Chevy Bolt. The unreliability of charging infrastructure caused me a lot of pain when traveling. Got a Tesla in 2021 and that pain evaporated. Charging stations are abundant and work perfectly 99% of the time. The other 1% you just move to a different stall.

Fortunately they are slowly opening this charging network to other OEMs and I think the reliability in general has improved considerably. But it does still require some research when traveling.

If you have a multi-vehicle family it makes a lot of sense to have 1 BEV and 1 PHEV.

I have 3 counter-arguments for this “dirty coal” nonsense:

1. Plugging into a 100% coal-powered connection still produces far fewer greenhouse gases per mile than ICE (and especially diesel).
2. The emissions are created at the power plant, and not pumped into the air directly outside your home where your children might be playing.
3. Electricity can come from pretty much infinite sources from coal to gas, solar, wind, nuclear, etc. etc. but oil only ever comes from 1 place.

Cool, thank you!

When you add a server endpoint in the settings, you’re pointing it at your own existing server (Dawarich, Home Assistant, Traccar or any HTTP endpoint).

Ok please forgive me, I’m unfamiliar with this terminology.

Colota actually has automatic file export (Settings > Export Data > Auto-Export)

Oh, sick, I missed that somehow, thanks.

Sorry for the confusion on my part.

I still don’t see a way to import data? Doesn’t do any good to back it up if I can’t import it back in?

There is no backup server. Users can create and add one if they like.

No I understood the server is self-hosted…?

Colota offers out of the box file export

I see that but this should be an automatic backup process. Plus there’s no way I can see to IMPORT that data somewhere else.

When I use an app like Fitotrack, it automatically makes a backup file periodically and then is automatically backed up to my server with Nextcloud or Syncthing. I don’t need a dedicated server for it.

Colota already uses WiFi for home detection (WiFi pause in geofence zones)

How can it do that when it didn’t ask me for an SSID? And what’s the point of the geofence if it doesn’t even use it anyway? I am cornfuse.

When wifi disconnects or/and motion is recognized the GPS starts again.

How is motion recognized without GPS?

Why a dedicated backup server instead of just backing up to a local file that can then be backed up to a service of choice?

Also for profiles, it would make more sense to use Bluetooth to detect a vehicle or WiFi to detect when you’re home vs. Geofencing or Android Auto or speed. How can it tell when you leave the geofence if the GPS is off?

The authorities are probably the ones compelling them to collect this information.

Breezy is great but it’s not even consistent with itself. Go into a different part of the UI and get completely different numbers.

Right. The point is they’re not even pretending.

I mean it’s in most CEO’s best interest to pretend to care about the general public.

Hey I am an outdoorsman and I find it difficult to find data about rain, specifically quantity of rain, hourly and daily. Is there a good way I can access this info from your site?