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Email notification when Arc stops recording locations

Thanks for the great app! I’ve been using it on and off for a while, but sometimes it will completely stop working and then I won’t know about it for 6 months. There are some push notifications that help, but sometimes those have stopped working as well. It would really nice if it could regularly ping a server while it’s working in the background, and then send an email notification if it hasn’t heard a ping for a while. It would be even better if I could specify my own URL to hit with a GET request, so I could set up my own monitoring with https://healthchecks.io.

Or maybe I can set this up myself with the automated daily exports, and monitor for changes in my iCloud drive. I’ll look into that and see if I can get my GPX data into Home Assistant

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Suggested 16 November 2022 by user Nathan Broadbent

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  • 16 November 2022 Nathan Broadbent suggested this task

  • 18 November 2022 Matt Greenfield approved this task

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    Matt Greenfield

    The way that this could work is limited to the same approach used for the current push notifications: a dead man’s switch.

    Arc App doesn’t have a server side component, or rather the server is only there to provide ML models on request, or to send push notifications based on future “wakeup call” requests submitted by the app while the app is still alive.

    The Arc App client could feasibly ping the server periodically to inform the server of its alive state. Which would allow the server to be aware of registered clients and whether they’re still reporting. But that’s something I’d rather not get involved with, given Arc’s strong privacy focus - the server should be as ignorant as possible of the clients.

    18 November 2022