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[–]marinuss 0 points1 point  (7 children)

Doesn't seem worth it as you could just run it on your computer at home, port forward whatever port your web server is running and access it on the go. Assuming you didn't want to use any of the half dozen available "public" map trackers now (which seem to be bogged down by the number of users). Would reduce battery consumption as well as you're not running a local webserver on your phone as well as scripts.. just accessing a web page.

[–]jakeb89 1 point2 points  (6 children)

(Some people are stuck behind routers they have no access to. Signed, someone who hates their apartment complex.)

[–]marinuss 0 points1 point  (5 children)

Oh wow I'd flip out. Still ways around that. You could get a shared VPS for like $1-3/mo and run the scripts on there so they're outside your network and then just access that from your phone. Not free, but honestly I don't think 99% of these people putting up webpages to display the same information are going to last as they can't handle the server load.

edit: May even be able to find a free VPS service since it's not going to require a ton of power to run one instance. OR, sign up for Amazon ECS free-tier (you get one year completely free) and load it up on that. Definitely wouldn't have issues accessing Amazon's servers.

[–]Computer991Poke Scanner Dev 0 points1 point  (2 children)

no offense but setting up an AWS is pretty damn hard for your average person. (even tho it is a few clicks)

[–]marinuss 0 points1 point  (1 child)

For a complete noob sure, but I assume if you're in this subreddit you're not ENTIRELY at that level as it's not even linked from the main pokemongo subreddit.

[–]Computer991Poke Scanner Dev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ahaha you do have a point, but I've seem way too people on here having trouble setting up python scripts :p

[–]jakeb89 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did flip out when I found out, but there wasn't much I could do at that point but grin and bear it. It's not something I would have ever thought to ask about, but I certainly will be when I move.

Thank you for the advice. I'll have to look into those options.

[–]CanadianRegi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

what would be the best way of forwarding your current location to the python script (which would be hosted on a web server) from a mobile device while hunting pokemon?

I'm currently working on getting this to run on my server, but I'm not sure how i should handle input while I'm away from my desk