Owntracks update broken

Add-ons Bindings
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I’ve been using the GPSTracker binding with Owntracks on my Android phone for many years but a few days it stopped working - no updates received from my phone.

After quite a bit of digging I came across this issue on Github - Issue · GitHub

It seems a recent update of Owntracks has broken things for a couple of servers (GPSTracker included). I’ve manually installed version 2.5.6 of Owntracks as a workaround.

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I can confirm this… :frowning:

How did you do this exactly?

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I exported my settings in Owntracks then uninstalled the app on my phone.

Then downloaded the 2.5.6 release apk file from Release v2.5.6 · owntracks/android · GitHub and installed it (you need Developer mode enabled on your phone to do this). After opening I imported the settings I previously saved.

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By that, do you mean that you copied that JSON? Or is there some kind of ‘setting export’ button hidden away somewhere? :slight_smile:

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Yes, in Configuration management click the three dots at the top right and select Export. It will save the JSON file.

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Isn’t this then (also) an issue in the GPSTracker binding that it doesn’t respond accordingly? :thinking:

Edit:
I use 2.5.9 in my vehicle with a VPN connection to my LAN and don’t have issues with it.

Are you guys using myopenhab.org as proxy?

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I am.

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No - I’m use nginx as a reverse proxy on my home connection which my OH server sits behind.

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I’ve got the feeling you are right. Without looking into it, it seems the binding now does not “return an array of JSON objects, which could be empty ([])”. And maybe if that’s changed, this problem goes away for the openHAB users?

Edit: this response suggests there’s a deeper problem.

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In the logs I see:

HTTP response received: Response{protocol=http/1.1, code=200, message=OK, url=http://[...]/gpstracker/owntracks}
HTTP response body: []

Looks like the binding already responds correctly. And as I wrote, I don’t have an issue. I tested with another Android device with 2.5.9 as well… I wonder what’s the difference here.

Edit: I’m using the 5.1.4 binding.

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Which logs are those exactly?

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You can find them in the Owntracks app: Menu > Status > See logs