lsiddiquee
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2 years ago @JohanKSE thanks for the feedback. I might be incorporating some of this into the app in the upcoming release. Will update here once done. For the tracking, do you think if I add a start driving stop driving trigger flow it would help? This would still be relying on the BMW services which has delays, so we might miss some very short stops. However, on an overall situation it would in general work. Update: There is already an existing trigger which triggered when the app thought a driving session was completed, however, it only logged the new location, for convenience I am adding a new trigger "Drive session completed" which has both start and end location, including start and end odometer reading.
JohanKSE
Hi,
First of all, I'm so happy with this app, helps me a lot already. Currently I'm logging mileage every morning into an Google spreadsheet to keep track of the driving (using IFTTT) but I'm trying to figure out how to log every drive separately.
At first it seemed quite simple, just keep track of every time the car is locked/unlocked but I've just realised that doesn't work that good since there is a delay in the reporting from the car to the the BMW connected site (i.e. not in your app). So what can happen is that I get two unlock events before an lock event (which messes up the structure). Currently I'm trying i'm testing to use a flag that keeps track of the status of the car...but that got me thinking and I figured I would ask you: Do you know an easier way to do this (i.e. log every drive with start and stop-point, distance etc)?
And as an request for future developments: if possible it would be great if there would be a property/tag where i could get the location in a complete address rather than the Long/lat.
Again, thanks for the app!
JOhan