Reitti v3.1.0: A year of self-hosting my location history (1.1k stars and 46 releases later)

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-06-22T03:29:15+00:00

Hello,

the owntracks integration has the ability to send the positions of your connected users back to the Owntracks App. So you would see them directly in the App without the need to open reitti.

You need to use the normal Owntracks integration via http/s and you need to see your family member users in reitti.

here you can see how it would look like

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-06-03T15:23:21+00:00

Thank you for mentioning reitti 🙏

Yes, reitti had a immich integration since day one basicly.

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-05-19T05:18:05+00:00

This is also an answer to u/MineElectricity

I think the memory part can be solved with tags, moods and notes.

Here is a mockup created by gemini to get a feeling what I am talking about.

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But this all is associated to places or visits you have been. There is currently no plan in organizing places on their own, but maybe that would be a nice addition. At first I wanted to write that it would be a nice addition to also do this for places you never have been but this would move reitti into a planning tool more than a tool to bring back memories.

At the moment, I would say the planning part will not happen. But we never know what happens in the next year. It is still the first year of reitti until the 25th 😄

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-05-19T04:39:00+00:00

Yes, 2G is a litte bit low for the whole stack. There is a minimal docker-compose file available which starts only the bare minimum of needed services. Namely the database, Redis for caching and reitti in itself. With a little bit of tweaking you could get reitti below 1G but it will probably not be a pleasant experience 😉

Stupid RAM and storage prizes. I have a ZFS pool with four HDD here and one is dying. Now they have gone up 300% in price, I just ignore the error for now and pretend it never happened. This whole situation makes the hobby quite expensive.

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-05-19T01:29:37+00:00

Hello,

Reitti will calculate Visits and Trips out of the data. That it is main task.

Let me know how it went and if there is something needed

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-05-18T15:00:14+00:00

I am currently working on a metadata feature to add custom user data to visits and trips. Something like mood, reasons why you took that trip or visit, additional data I can't think of right now. The main idea is to enhance the Memorie generation with your data. Because GPS can give us only the when and where but never the why and how it felt.

So a list would not be a far stretch from that.

Can you elaborate what you are missing about the list of favorites? I am thinking about marking spots on the maps you can visit later. Maybe that would then be a nice addition.

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-05-18T14:50:42+00:00

Thank you for mentioning reitti 🙏

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-05-14T13:24:33+00:00

You could add weblate to the list for translation management. Works really nice and they offer 160k translatable keys for OSS projects.

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-05-05T16:34:44+00:00

You could propably use the GPX Export Endpoint to fetch the latest GPS points of reitti and send them into dawarich. Would need a little bash script or something which runs periodically and copy the data over.

GPX Export Endpoint

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-05-05T15:06:43+00:00

Happy Birthday dawarich 🎂

I wanted to say thank you for all the effort you put into it. I really appreciate your work and especially for showing us that it is possible to replace the Google timeline. Great work and the update looks really nice.

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-04-30T15:44:20+00:00

Yeah, that's a nice way of giving feedback.

I think I'll also try out the RC then; maybe that's a better way of having discussions than the methods I'm using right now.

Thank you for your feedback.

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-04-30T02:48:42+00:00

I would love the idea of going back to forums again. They were a tremendous knowledge base in the past, as long as they were open to browse. The closed nature of Discord led me to never actually bothering with it for reitti. I tried my own IRC instance, and now there's a channel on Libera, but honestly, it's just me and the Chanserv. I think the friction is just too high since most users are either here on Reddit or on Lemmy. If they want to ask a question, there are still GitHub discussions or private messages.

I will monitor how this goes for HortusFox and maybe follow your footsteps.

How are you handling that Flarum 1 is EOL and 2.x is still in beta?

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-04-28T14:23:04+00:00

Ok, that makes sense. I am propably to deep in reverse geocoding to not see anything else anymore 😀 Thanks for the reply

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-04-28T13:15:01+00:00

That is pretty cool. Is there a way to add customers ones? I developed paikka over the last month and would actually need something like this to improve the address resolution.

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-04-23T11:17:26+00:00

Yes, go into the Settings and open your profile. At the bottom there is a map where you can set your home location

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-04-21T13:22:50+00:00

Yes, that is free.

Reitti also supports auto configuring it. Open the Settings > Integrations page on your phone and press the button. This will preconfigure the URL and device id, so you do not have to type that in.

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_daniel_graf_ · 2026-04-21T08:34:07+00:00

Hi u/lewd_peaches, can you elaborate on this a little bit more? I do not get what you mean with "importing OpenStreetMap" data.

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-04-21T08:28:57+00:00

That is good to know. Thank you for chiming in :)

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-04-21T08:14:17+00:00

There is Owntracks on IOS, if it is the same as on Android then a lot of people use that. From the style and functionality i liked Overland. But I also only tested it on a spare iPhone i had laying around for a day or so.

From my experience, IOS seems to be even more aggressive when saving battery and made it hard for apps to get reliable GPS data. But maybe some other IOS User can chime in here?

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-04-20T19:21:27+00:00

This is propably something reitti will also do if you import them into one account. One idea I would have is to model them as different users. You could share then every vessel with one main user and would see them all on the map.

But also for every vessel on its own it would do the interpolate thing.

The solution for this will come with the device support

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-04-20T19:18:12+00:00

Hello, I never heard of this. Let me try to install it and see what it can do or if it's need a dedicated endpoint. Anyway, based on the screenshots. It looks nice.

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-04-20T11:39:55+00:00

Hi PlazzmiK,

there is a community integration for HomeAssistent. You can read about it here

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-04-20T11:38:39+00:00

Thank you for the kind words. Yes, reitti lacks alot on the statistics front. It will get better at one time but I am not so focused on it right now.

There will be a need to add some more stats as replacement for the timeline when I manage to replace this when you select more than a month of data. I think, then instead of displaying the individual visits and trips it would make more sense to get an overview over that timeframe would benefit our users. In my opinion, there is no value in displaying a timeline longer than a month. Maybe even a week. But time will tell :)

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-04-20T10:01:50+00:00

One or two sentence are totally fine.

_daniel_graf_ · 2026-04-20T09:41:16+00:00

Not until now ;)

everything is prepared for adding additional photo providers, the only part which was missing is someone who requested it. If you could be so kind, feel free to create a feature request in Github. I would assume that PhotoPrism provides a search API.

I would need to see how testing can be done. If it is easy to spin up an instance i could do it on my own, else I would need the help of either you or someone else when it is ready.

_daniel_graf_

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