Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline
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Hey everyone!
I'm excited to introduce Reitti, a location tracking and analysis application designed to help you gain insights about your movement patterns and significant places—all while keeping your data private on your own server.
Core Capabilities:
- Visit Tracking: Automatically recognizes and categorizes the places where you spend time, using customizable detection algorithms
- Trip Analysis: Analyzes your movements between locations to understand how you travel whether by walking, cycling, or driving
- Interactive Timeline: Visualizes all your past activities on an interactive timeline with map and list views that show visit duration, transport method, and distance traveled
Photo Integration:
- Connect your self-hosted Immich photo server to seamlessly display photos taken at specific locations right within Reitti's timeline. The interactive photo viewer lets you browse galleries for each place.
Data Import Options:
- Multiple Formats Supported: Reitti can import existing location data from GPX, GeoJSON, and Google Takeout (JSON) backups
- (Near) Real-time Updates: Automatically receive location info via mobile apps like OwnTracks, GPSLogger or our REST API
Customization:
- Multi-geocoding Services: Configurable options to convert coordinates to human-readable addresses using providers like Nominatim
- User Profiles: Customize individual display names, password management, and API token security under your own control
Self-hosting:
- Reitti is designed to be deployed on your own infrastructure using Docker containers. We provide configuration templates to set up linked services like PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ and Redis that keep all your location data private.
Reitti is still early in development but has already developed extensive capabilities. I'd love to hear your feedback and answer any questions to tailor Reitti to meet the community's needs.
Hope this sparks some interest!
Daniel
What's the difference from Dawarich, if I may ask? Beside from a better name
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What's the difference from Dawarich, if I may ask? Beside from a better name
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As a German I really like the name Dawarich. First it sound really nice for me but also that "Da war ich" means "There have i been" in german makes, at least for me, an awesome project name.Take this with a grain of salt because I have no idea what the plans are for Dawarich or have ever been and this is solely based on my external view. For me the main differences are:
- visits and trips are our main data, everything else is just the way to calculate them. For Dawarich it looks to me, that it is the other way around. It displays all the location data in good way with the heatmap and so on but visits or places seems so tacked on. This should not be an offense against it. I actually still have an instance running and it was the main pushing point to finally start working on Reitti.
- the sleek UI but this depends on your taste
In the end, they are not that far off. Maybe a matter of taste.
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Great project!
Any recommendations for an iOS app for this? I've been using OwnTracks, but it works very unreliably. As far as I understand, it's an OS problem since Apple allows for very limited background processing for the sake of saving battery, so there's not much any logging apps can do, but I was just curious if someone found a way around it.Not really, I stopped using IOS a year ago because of exactly this reason. Had a lot of problems syncing files because of the power saving. I understand why IOS is doing it and for a normal user I think it is the way to go. But anything beyond that, it only hinders the experience you get out of apps. Maybe someone here as any experience with an app which works reliably.
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Hey everyone!
I'm excited to introduce Reitti, a location tracking and analysis application designed to help you gain insights about your movement patterns and significant places—all while keeping your data private on your own server.
Core Capabilities:
- Visit Tracking: Automatically recognizes and categorizes the places where you spend time, using customizable detection algorithms
- Trip Analysis: Analyzes your movements between locations to understand how you travel whether by walking, cycling, or driving
- Interactive Timeline: Visualizes all your past activities on an interactive timeline with map and list views that show visit duration, transport method, and distance traveled
Photo Integration:
- Connect your self-hosted Immich photo server to seamlessly display photos taken at specific locations right within Reitti's timeline. The interactive photo viewer lets you browse galleries for each place.
Data Import Options:
- Multiple Formats Supported: Reitti can import existing location data from GPX, GeoJSON, and Google Takeout (JSON) backups
- (Near) Real-time Updates: Automatically receive location info via mobile apps like OwnTracks, GPSLogger or our REST API
Customization:
- Multi-geocoding Services: Configurable options to convert coordinates to human-readable addresses using providers like Nominatim
- User Profiles: Customize individual display names, password management, and API token security under your own control
Self-hosting:
- Reitti is designed to be deployed on your own infrastructure using Docker containers. We provide configuration templates to set up linked services like PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ and Redis that keep all your location data private.
Reitti is still early in development but has already developed extensive capabilities. I'd love to hear your feedback and answer any questions to tailor Reitti to meet the community's needs.
Hope this sparks some interest!
Daniel
This looks amazing, congratulations and thank you for making it FOSS. I was wondering if you are considering integrating with Home Assistant.
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This looks amazing, congratulations and thank you for making it FOSS. I was wondering if you are considering integrating with Home Assistant.
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No, did not occur to me. What would the integration look like? Connecting it to the message bus to receive location updates? Honestly it is a couple years ago I played with HA.
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If you use Photon and only have your main country available, it will fallback to the configured external Geo-coding-services since Photon will not return a result then. So the order of execution is:
- first try Photon
- if it does not return anything, try to call one or all of the available Geo coding services.
Is that true even if you're not in hybrid mode?
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Thanks
No, did not occur to me. What would the integration look like? Connecting it to the message bus to receive location updates? Honestly it is a couple years ago I played with HA.
Location sensor would be a good minimum bar.
A custom card for your app that is just basically a iframe into your app with auth would also be pretty decent. Your version of a map looks really nice.
Maybe surfacing metrics of distance traveled or number of geolocations.
I'll have to install the app and play around with it to make other recommendations but those are the first things that come to mind.
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Is that true even if you're not in hybrid mode?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Maybe the wording is confusing in the Readme. Reitti will try to fetch the data from a configured photon instance first, if this does not return anything and you have Geocoding services configured, it will try them. There is actually no switch for hybrid mode or only local. It depends on what is configured.
Photon Only: you have only photon configured and under
Settings > Gecodingyou deleted or disable every available service.
Hybrid Mode: Photon is configured and underSettings > Geocodingthere are Services available. That es is the one I use. Having Photon with the data for Germany and all the rest is handled by Geoapify.com.External Only: You dropped Photon from the docker-compose file and only rely on services under
Settings > GeocodingIf you do not configure anything, then Reitti will skip Geocoding and only display Unknown Place.
I will update the Readme to make that clear.
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Hey everyone!
I'm excited to introduce Reitti, a location tracking and analysis application designed to help you gain insights about your movement patterns and significant places—all while keeping your data private on your own server.
Core Capabilities:
- Visit Tracking: Automatically recognizes and categorizes the places where you spend time, using customizable detection algorithms
- Trip Analysis: Analyzes your movements between locations to understand how you travel whether by walking, cycling, or driving
- Interactive Timeline: Visualizes all your past activities on an interactive timeline with map and list views that show visit duration, transport method, and distance traveled
Photo Integration:
- Connect your self-hosted Immich photo server to seamlessly display photos taken at specific locations right within Reitti's timeline. The interactive photo viewer lets you browse galleries for each place.
Data Import Options:
- Multiple Formats Supported: Reitti can import existing location data from GPX, GeoJSON, and Google Takeout (JSON) backups
- (Near) Real-time Updates: Automatically receive location info via mobile apps like OwnTracks, GPSLogger or our REST API
Customization:
- Multi-geocoding Services: Configurable options to convert coordinates to human-readable addresses using providers like Nominatim
- User Profiles: Customize individual display names, password management, and API token security under your own control
Self-hosting:
- Reitti is designed to be deployed on your own infrastructure using Docker containers. We provide configuration templates to set up linked services like PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ and Redis that keep all your location data private.
Reitti is still early in development but has already developed extensive capabilities. I'd love to hear your feedback and answer any questions to tailor Reitti to meet the community's needs.
Hope this sparks some interest!
Daniel
Very very cool! I see that you can import GPX files: can you also do the opposite, i.e., export a GPX file for a selected time range?
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Very very cool! I see that you can import GPX files: can you also do the opposite, i.e., export a GPX file for a selected time range?
I was thinking about that, but the main problem is that we do not store all the data which comes in.
If we ingest data from an app, I am pretty sure that the quality of the data is actually usable. But for example if we import an Records.json from Google Takeout. The quality of the earlier years is somewhat sketchy. For this we filter out some points like travelling with over 2000 km/h, sudden direction changes etc and they are lost forever. At least for Reitti they are unknown.
The feature would need a lot of explanation why the data we export is not the same we import.That is the reason I did not implemented it even if it would come in handy for testing stuff. Handling GPX files is a pita ...
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Maybe the wording is confusing in the Readme. Reitti will try to fetch the data from a configured photon instance first, if this does not return anything and you have Geocoding services configured, it will try them. There is actually no switch for hybrid mode or only local. It depends on what is configured.
Photon Only: you have only photon configured and under
Settings > Gecodingyou deleted or disable every available service.
Hybrid Mode: Photon is configured and underSettings > Geocodingthere are Services available. That es is the one I use. Having Photon with the data for Germany and all the rest is handled by Geoapify.com.External Only: You dropped Photon from the docker-compose file and only rely on services under
Settings > GeocodingIf you do not configure anything, then Reitti will skip Geocoding and only display Unknown Place.
I will update the Readme to make that clear.
If you do not configure anything, then Reitti will skip Geocoding and only display Unknown Place.
Ah ok thanks. This is what I was wondering.
Two follow-ups:
Can you specify multiple
COUNTRY_CODEs? (and if so, is the methodenvironment: - COUNTRY_CODE=country_one - COUNTRY_CODE=country_twoor
environment: - COUNTRY_CODE=[country_one, country_two]or something else?)
And is this something that can seemlessly be retroactively changed? For example, if I set
COUNTRY_CODE=auand it works fine for Australia, but then I move to NZ, can I add (assuming the answer to my first question is yes) or change toCOUNTRY_CODE=nzand have all the NZ locations work on the already-recorded data, even if I made that change to my configuration after I had been in NZ for a few months? -
If you do not configure anything, then Reitti will skip Geocoding and only display Unknown Place.
Ah ok thanks. This is what I was wondering.
Two follow-ups:
Can you specify multiple
COUNTRY_CODEs? (and if so, is the methodenvironment: - COUNTRY_CODE=country_one - COUNTRY_CODE=country_twoor
environment: - COUNTRY_CODE=[country_one, country_two]or something else?)
And is this something that can seemlessly be retroactively changed? For example, if I set
COUNTRY_CODE=auand it works fine for Australia, but then I move to NZ, can I add (assuming the answer to my first question is yes) or change toCOUNTRY_CODE=nzand have all the NZ locations work on the already-recorded data, even if I made that change to my configuration after I had been in NZ for a few months?wrote on last edited by [email protected]Good question, afaik you can not enter multiple countries to Photon. I was hoping it would be possible but everything i saw was it is either one country or the whole world. But maybe you can have a look here: https://github.com/komoot/photon
That is the service we are using. -
Hey everyone!
I'm excited to introduce Reitti, a location tracking and analysis application designed to help you gain insights about your movement patterns and significant places—all while keeping your data private on your own server.
Core Capabilities:
- Visit Tracking: Automatically recognizes and categorizes the places where you spend time, using customizable detection algorithms
- Trip Analysis: Analyzes your movements between locations to understand how you travel whether by walking, cycling, or driving
- Interactive Timeline: Visualizes all your past activities on an interactive timeline with map and list views that show visit duration, transport method, and distance traveled
Photo Integration:
- Connect your self-hosted Immich photo server to seamlessly display photos taken at specific locations right within Reitti's timeline. The interactive photo viewer lets you browse galleries for each place.
Data Import Options:
- Multiple Formats Supported: Reitti can import existing location data from GPX, GeoJSON, and Google Takeout (JSON) backups
- (Near) Real-time Updates: Automatically receive location info via mobile apps like OwnTracks, GPSLogger or our REST API
Customization:
- Multi-geocoding Services: Configurable options to convert coordinates to human-readable addresses using providers like Nominatim
- User Profiles: Customize individual display names, password management, and API token security under your own control
Self-hosting:
- Reitti is designed to be deployed on your own infrastructure using Docker containers. We provide configuration templates to set up linked services like PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ and Redis that keep all your location data private.
Reitti is still early in development but has already developed extensive capabilities. I'd love to hear your feedback and answer any questions to tailor Reitti to meet the community's needs.
Hope this sparks some interest!
Daniel
Visually this is gorgeous
Really nice work!
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Thank you.
At the moment i do not have any plans of providing a way of running it without docker. Mainly because of time to support that.
Since it is a Spring-Boot-Application it would be possible to create a jar file which you can execute or deploy as a service with systemd. But then you have to make sure all prerequisites are also running. That is the one thing I like about docker and especially docker compose.
But short answer: Yes, it is possible but you are on your own at the moment. I would help and maybe we can add a section to the readme how to do it.
Not sure if you know about it and I haven't used it myself yet, but being able to create native executables could be relatively easy with this
https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/reference/packaging/native-image/index.html
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Not sure if you know about it and I haven't used it myself yet, but being able to create native executables could be relatively easy with this
https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/reference/packaging/native-image/index.html
I used that once on a past gig and it wasn't very pleasant to use. Especially in combination with spring boot. But that is a couple of years ago. Maybe things have changed. I personally would prefer the executable jar from spring boot. With that you do not have to make that many steps to make it work. But thanks for the suggestion
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Thank you
I understand your concerns, this is something every additional app would have to deal with.
For me it is ok to have GPSLogger running all the time, I think for what it is doing it is quite easy on the battery but I do not use my phone actively that much and I am happy if it survives a day which it does.
I log my position every 5 seconds for years and gpslogger is not among any of the battery consuming processes if you use the device.
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Hey everyone!
I'm excited to introduce Reitti, a location tracking and analysis application designed to help you gain insights about your movement patterns and significant places—all while keeping your data private on your own server.
Core Capabilities:
- Visit Tracking: Automatically recognizes and categorizes the places where you spend time, using customizable detection algorithms
- Trip Analysis: Analyzes your movements between locations to understand how you travel whether by walking, cycling, or driving
- Interactive Timeline: Visualizes all your past activities on an interactive timeline with map and list views that show visit duration, transport method, and distance traveled
Photo Integration:
- Connect your self-hosted Immich photo server to seamlessly display photos taken at specific locations right within Reitti's timeline. The interactive photo viewer lets you browse galleries for each place.
Data Import Options:
- Multiple Formats Supported: Reitti can import existing location data from GPX, GeoJSON, and Google Takeout (JSON) backups
- (Near) Real-time Updates: Automatically receive location info via mobile apps like OwnTracks, GPSLogger or our REST API
Customization:
- Multi-geocoding Services: Configurable options to convert coordinates to human-readable addresses using providers like Nominatim
- User Profiles: Customize individual display names, password management, and API token security under your own control
Self-hosting:
- Reitti is designed to be deployed on your own infrastructure using Docker containers. We provide configuration templates to set up linked services like PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ and Redis that keep all your location data private.
Reitti is still early in development but has already developed extensive capabilities. I'd love to hear your feedback and answer any questions to tailor Reitti to meet the community's needs.
Hope this sparks some interest!
Daniel
That looks very neat. Thanks for starting this!
I guess this will directly compete with dawarich, right?
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Thanks
As a German I really like the name Dawarich. First it sound really nice for me but also that "Da war ich" means "There have i been" in german makes, at least for me, an awesome project name.Take this with a grain of salt because I have no idea what the plans are for Dawarich or have ever been and this is solely based on my external view. For me the main differences are:
- visits and trips are our main data, everything else is just the way to calculate them. For Dawarich it looks to me, that it is the other way around. It displays all the location data in good way with the heatmap and so on but visits or places seems so tacked on. This should not be an offense against it. I actually still have an instance running and it was the main pushing point to finally start working on Reitti.
- the sleek UI but this depends on your taste
In the end, they are not that far off. Maybe a matter of taste.
Thanks for the reply! I will give it a go
The word dawarich does not produce a polite sound in my main language, meant no offense to the project
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That looks very neat. Thanks for starting this!
I guess this will directly compete with dawarich, right?
I would not say compete. They are different in how things are done from my point of view. I want to focus more on the visits we have done in the past to relive some lost memories whereas Dwarich looks more "technical" for me. I have no better words for it, I hope you get my point in what i am trying to achieve with Reitti. So there should be enough room for both
I also do not have any intentions to offer a hosted version in the foreseeable future or even anytime.
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No, did not occur to me. What would the integration look like? Connecting it to the message bus to receive location updates? Honestly it is a couple years ago I played with HA.
Home automation using geofencing, and my partner likes to get a notification when I'm heading home from the office
