I’m excited to announce that the demo version of the AgOpenGPS Tracker website is now available! For the best experience, please view it on desktop computers as mobile optimization is still in progress. The final version will be launched soon. 
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Any plans to allow this to be self hosted/open source? A cool project but it’s not something we’d pay for at our scale.
Hi! At the moment we haven’t considered such an option due to the amount of time and money we invested into it. We’re a team of 2, a farmer’s young son and a young software engineer. We hope we can have an estimate about the number of users that are interested and after a short free trial phase we could estimate our true costs. Afterwards we aim to set our pricing to cover the hosting costs and allow us to further develop the project. Currently we want to offer the option to have real time tracking of machines and activities along with the ability to generate all kinds of reports. We already have requests for a special reporting functionality that would comply with country/state specific requirements for farmers and we are welcoming towards any other idea/request that would make farmer’s life’s a little bit easier. Out of curiosity, what kind of operational scale are you talking about and what would you consider to be a reasonable monthly/yearly price for you to be using this?
First of all, great idea and a great project — it can only get better.
I do have to say though, I find it a bit difficult to see that the project (which is meant to support a free and open source program) is tied to a paid service like this.
Ideally, we as a community — or as an independent group — should set up our own server infrastructure where the software can run, keeping the costs to a minimum. These costs could then be covered through the same kind of funding we currently use for our Discourse server.
I can’t imagine this project being more costly or complex than AgOpenGPS itself. I’d definitely be interested in contributing, but only if it’s hosted by the community or even self-hosted.
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Hy,
What would be great for the community is to have a Traccar server (https://www.traccar.org/) (an open source tracking platform) hosted by the community. The communication protocol (OsmAnd - Traccar) could be added to Agio.
@Raycorp and @andyinv have already worked on this.
It might be less complete than @Krisz 's proposal, but it’s an open source alternative.
Yep very easy to run, and free to use for any one.
Als easy to add in agio.
If enough ppl want it i can make it in new version. Maybe andy and i can team up. Who knows
A self hosted open source version of this would be fantastic!
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We’d pay $0.
250 acre farm with typically only 1 machine ever running at once. It’s a neat thing, and I’d use it for free, or maybe some small donation, but for us it wouldn’t gain us anything other than a “Neat to have”
I’m a former embedded systems guy turned infrastructure administrator, I get that the work that goes into this isn’t free. But unfortunately we don’t seem a good audience for a paid solution.
It’s the reason we built our own RTK base and use Tailscale. We’re not reliant on any specific 3rd party service (Yes we also publish the base to RTK2Go for anyone who wants to use it).
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Ok, we understand. For your specific context our app is an overkill, since our main focus is the ability to gather as many data points as possible to generate reports.