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Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline (github.com)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I love that it supports multiple formats for important location as well as multiple geocoders. But that makes me wonder, would it be feasible to support multiple image libraries? There's a bunch of different FOSS photo libraries out there. I think Nextcloud is the main other one I've heard about 'in the wild', as it were. Or is there too much bespoke Immich code in there for that to be a simple plug-and-play option?

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Saving for later

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[–] Kernal64@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This looks really cool! I just have one question. Is it possible to just install this like normal software on a Linux machine or does it require Docker?

[–] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 month ago

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 :)

[–] LazyToad@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Got it up and running, looks neat!

Is there a way to import old pictures from Immich? If I take new ones they do show up on Reitti, but none of the old ones are shown.

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[–] shrink9313@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Dear OP,

I just spent some time setting up Reitti and I am very pleased with the results. Many thanks for all the work and great documentation.

I do have a few questions:

  1. You mention that it can take hours to days for Photon to setup. How do I know its done?
  2. The default external reverse geocoding is not doing anything for me, but there seems little to no info in the logs for me to try any remedy. Related to my previous comment, how would I know that photon is working correct?
  3. Is it possible to enjoy the map view in color in stead of the black and white?

Thanks for your time.

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[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Having all of this data stored in a location I can control has been really good.

But yesterday, it was pointed out to me that the API reitti provides means I have access to over a decades worth of location history that I can use to geotag my photo collection! That is a game changer. I've been trying to find a way to pull that information from google location history for a long time, and it turns out, you've created it!

This is really valuable to me, so I want you to know just how much I appreciate the effort you've put in to making it. Thank you

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Docker-dependent? It looks fantastic, but I have no containers in my home-lab -- and it's based on my time managing OS security for an OS. I'm stuck living vicariously through the rest of you, so report back often.

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is there any way of forcing it to rebuild places and trips? Somewhere along the line, most of mine disappeared. It's still building new ones just fine as GPS logger adds real time data, but most of my historical stuff is gone.

The actual data is there, and it shows up fine on the maps for each day, but the places/trips/stats etc are mostly empty.

I can't see anything in the logs that might explain it

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[–] SomeDudeFromSpace@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 month ago

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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