maxage not working

  • Resolved chris7711

    (@chris7711)


    3 years, 8 months ago

    Is the maxage function not working?

    I have set it to 3hours, but I can still see the position on the map that I sent the day before.

    [tsmap id=1,2,3,4,5 markers=e opacity=0.0 maxage=3h live=true]

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  • Plugin Author tinuzz

    (@tinuzz)

    3 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Chris,

    The ‘maxage’ parameter only works for actual live tracks, i.e. tracks that are requested with the ‘user=’ parameter.

    Specifying tracks by ID and adding ‘live=true’ doesn’t make them live tracks in that sense, it merely tells the Javascript to reload the tracks every 10 seconds as if they were live tracks.

    I realize that this may be a bit confusing, and right now I can’t think of any compelling reasons why ‘maxage’ shouldn’t apply to all tracks, other than that it doesn’t really make a lot of sense, if you view tracks that are specified by ID as non-updating. It least, that’s how they were intended, and that’s why the concept of live tracks (user=) was invented.

    ‘Live=true’ is merely a hack, mainly intended to work with external files (GPX/KML).

    Best regards,
    Martijn.

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 8 months ago by tinuzz.
    Plugin Author tinuzz

    (@tinuzz)

    3 years, 8 months ago

    Can you tell me a bit more about your use case, i.e. why are you using ‘track=1,2,3,4,5 live-true’, rather than ‘user=@,a,b,c,d’ ?

    In my mind, a single user should have only one track that is considered ‘live’. I know you can have multiple apps running, creating different (but mostly identical) tracks in parallel, but that doesn’t really sound very efficient to me in real life, or at least it doesn’t seem like something you’d want to bother your visitors with.

    Cheers,
    Martijn.

    Thread Starter chris7711

    (@chris7711)

    3 years, 8 months ago

    Ah OK, thx for the clarification .

    Thread Starter chris7711

    (@chris7711)

    3 years, 8 months ago

    The moment I read your answer I was asking myself the same question :).

    Tried it now with user and it works like I wanted it to work.

    Thank you 🙂

    Plugin Author tinuzz

    (@tinuzz)

    3 years, 8 months ago

    Great!!

    Cheers,
    Martijn.

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