Anyway to fake location?

[strunker]

For testing purposes I would like to send fake locations so I can test the back end code that is looking to see if I am in a known region. Hard to develop when you cant simulate being elsewhere. Thanks!

[ckrey]

If you have Xcode you can simulate locations on your connected iOS device.

Or - much more simple - send your OwnTracks payload from a script in your favorite language to your HTTP or MQTT backend see our booklet

[jpmens]

I don't see why this is asked in ios/.

IIRC you use HTTP but even so the following is trivial to convert to use mosquitto_pub:

#/bin/sh

tics=$(date +%s)
topic="owntracks/<username>/<devicename>"

payload=$(jo _type=location \
   cog=271 \
   batt=11 \
   lat=48.85833 \
   t=u \
   lon=2.29513 \
   acc=5 \
   tid=JJ \
   vel=12 \
   vac=21 \
   alt=167 \
   tst=${tics} \
   topic="${topic}")

echo $payload

curl  -i --data "${payload}" https://<your-recorder-hostname>/owntracks/<username>/<devicename>

[jpmens]

It would seem @ckrey and I pressed submit at exactly the same time. :)

[strunker]

Thank you both it's a little hard for me to send random requests via rest. The backend code checks for encrypted payload and TLS and header info etc, it does a bunch of validation on each request. So I'll have to turn all that stuff off while testing which is fine. Was just hoping there was a simple way to test sending a fake location from within the app. But if not no big deal thanks!

[strunker]

Will close this at this time as this doesn't seem to be an app feature.

[jpmens]

You ought to be able to create your encrypted payload along the lines of how we recently decrypted:

#!/usr/bin/env python

import base64
import nacl.secret  # http://pynacl.readthedocs.org/en/latest/secret/
import json
import time

key = b's3cr1t'

data = {
    "_type" : "location",
    "tid"   : "JJ",
    "lat"   : 48.856826,
    "lon"   : 2.292713,
    "tst"   : int(time.time()),
    }

payload = json.dumps(data).encode("utf-8")

box = nacl.secret.SecretBox(key + bytearray(nacl.secret.SecretBox.KEY_SIZE - len(key)))

nonce = nacl.utils.random(nacl.secret.SecretBox.NONCE_SIZE)
nonce64 = base64.b64encode(nonce)

encrypted = box.encrypt(payload, nonce)

assert len(encrypted) == len(payload) + box.NONCE_SIZE + box.MACBYTES

enc64 = base64.b64encode(encrypted)

print(enc64.decode('utf-8'))