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Title: Bubbler test tomorrow.
Post by: Brock on December 26, 2014, 11:10:21 PM
I am going for a bite working of a drive tomorrow, so will give bubbler a bit of a test (if I can get the phone working)

Link will be here.



Should go active around 1000 EST  0700 WA Time

Title: Re: Bubbler test tomorrow.
Post by: ST2UP on December 27, 2014, 06:41:15 AM
Enjoy mate...... :like
Title: Re: Bubbler test tomorrow.
Post by: STroppy on December 27, 2014, 06:49:03 AM
Need Login & password to see tracker . .
Title: Re: Bubbler test tomorrow.
Post by: ST2UP on December 27, 2014, 01:37:38 PM
Will fix this link up when I can get to a computer ;)


Sent from my iPhone using this here Tappin' and a Talkin' thing;)

Title: Re: Bubbler test tomorrow.
Post by: alans1100 on December 27, 2014, 02:03:13 PM
Something like this app on a phone would only update via your phone network's cell tower wouldn't it?
Title: Re: Bubbler test tomorrow.
Post by: Brock on December 27, 2014, 04:17:16 PM
I have a portable wifi in my pocket, and Thailnand has towers every where. Im away from my puter, so cant fix up the link til tomorrow.
Title: Re: Bubbler test tomorrow.
Post by: Brock on December 29, 2014, 02:25:18 PM
More work to do in setting this stuff up.

Will try again another day
Title: Re: Bubbler test tomorrow.
Post by: Brock on December 29, 2014, 02:49:40 PM
This should be where I went

https://spotwalla.com/tripViewer.php?id=bf7f549d613228540

Looks like I need to update to full version of Bubbler, as way points are few and far between
Title: Re: Bubbler test tomorrow.
Post by: Brock on December 29, 2014, 02:57:30 PM
May be lunch trip today

https://spotwalla.com/tripViewer.php?id=bfcc54a0dcdd5c3af
Title: Re: Bubbler test tomorrow.
Post by: Yorkie on December 30, 2014, 09:06:31 PM
Something like this app on a phone would only update via your phone network's cell tower wouldn't it?

This was my thought until Gavo went to NR this year, his updated every 20 or so minutes across the paddock.
Title: Re: Bubbler test tomorrow.
Post by: tj189 on December 31, 2014, 06:28:54 AM
This should be where I went

https://spotwalla.com/tripViewer.php?id=bf7f549d613228540

Looks like I need to update to full version of Bubbler, as way points are few and far between
You may need to change the "update settings" to give more points?
Title: Re: Bubbler test tomorrow.
Post by: tj189 on December 31, 2014, 06:43:22 AM
Something like this app on a phone would only update via your phone network's cell tower wouldn't it?

This was my thought until Gavo went to NR this year, his updated every 20 or so minutes across the paddock.

Alan, I believe you are correct,  it will store the gps points in the phone until it locks in with your phone network cell tower.  This then will update all the points since its last connection with a cell tower.  Bubbler needs a wifi/wireless and/or a cell connection (depending on how you set the settings),  to transmitt its points.

Obvious choice for service provider is Telstra due to monopoly of cell towers around Oz.  I can remember being somewhere out your way Alan trying to make a call on my mobile phone (Optus), coun not get a connection.  A guy standing a few meters away was chatting away on his cell.  He was with Telstra :|||| so changed my service provider once I got back from my ride.  If you are riding in high population areas then it may not matter who you are with.

Yorkie, I am not sure what the distance separation is for the towers across the paddock but I know on some of my trips I actually lost cell reception for some periods of time.  Bubbler just "caught up " with the gps points and updated Spotwalla as if it was constantly updating?

Bubbler Pro is a good bit of kit for my Android phone  :thumbs
Title: Re: Bubbler test tomorrow.
Post by: alans1100 on December 31, 2014, 11:45:55 AM

Yorkie, I am not sure what the distance separation is for the towers across the paddock but I know on some of my trips I actually lost cell reception for some periods of time.  Bubbler just "caught up " with the gps points and updated Spotwalla as if it was constantly updating?

I just had a look at the Optus mobile coverage maps and from home to Ceduna is fairly well covered and then nothing until Norseman.

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I can remember being somewhere out your way Alan trying to make a call on my mobile phone (Optus), could not get a connection.

More likely between here and Broken Hill......

Title: Re: Bubbler test tomorrow.
Post by: Biggles on December 31, 2014, 04:18:50 PM
Looking at Brock's Thailand track, it's amazing how much of the country is covered by Google Streetview!
There are lots of countries with no coverage whatsoever (apart from North Korea  :grin  )
Title: Re: Bubbler test tomorrow.
Post by: Yorkie on December 31, 2014, 08:59:28 PM
Something like this app on a phone would only update via your phone network's cell tower wouldn't it?

This was my thought until Gavo went to NR this year, his updated every 20 or so minutes across the paddock.

Alan, I believe you are correct,  it will store the gps points in the phone until it locks in with your phone network cell tower.  This then will update all the points since its last connection with a cell tower.  Bubbler needs a wifi/wireless and/or a cell connection (depending on how you set the settings),  to transmitt its points.

Obvious choice for service provider is Telstra due to monopoly of cell towers around Oz.  I can remember being somewhere out your way Alan trying to make a call on my mobile phone (Optus), coun not get a connection.  A guy standing a few meters away was chatting away on his cell.  He was with Telstra :|||| so changed my service provider once I got back from my ride.  If you are riding in high population areas then it may not matter who you are with.

Yorkie, I am not sure what the distance separation is for the towers across the paddock but I know on some of my trips I actually lost cell reception for some periods of time.  Bubbler just "caught up " with the gps points and updated Spotwalla as if it was constantly updating?

Bubbler Pro is a good bit of kit for my Android phone  :thumbs

I thought bubbler would only update when in cell however I checked Gavo's by logging in 25 mins after the last update and it had moved, in the paddock Telstra have a tower at each servo only, reception is limited to around 15k either side depending on terrain.