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Introducing reitti: a selfhosted alternative to Google Timeline (github.com)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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Hey everyone!

I'm excited to introduce Reitti, a location tracking and analysis application designed to help you gain insights about your movement patterns and significant places—all while keeping your data private on your own server.

Core Capabilities:

  • Visit Tracking: Automatically recognizes and categorizes the places where you spend time, using customizable detection algorithms
  • Trip Analysis: Analyzes your movements between locations to understand how you travel whether by walking, cycling, or driving
  • Interactive Timeline: Visualizes all your past activities on an interactive timeline with map and list views that show visit duration, transport method, and distance traveled

Photo Integration:

  • Connect your self-hosted Immich photo server to seamlessly display photos taken at specific locations right within Reitti's timeline. The interactive photo viewer lets you browse galleries for each place.

Data Import Options:

  • Multiple Formats Supported: Reitti can import existing location data from GPX, GeoJSON, and Google Takeout (JSON) backups
  • (Near) Real-time Updates: Automatically receive location info via mobile apps like OwnTracks, GPSLogger or our REST API

Customization:

  • Multi-geocoding Services: Configurable options to convert coordinates to human-readable addresses using providers like Nominatim
  • User Profiles: Customize individual display names, password management, and API token security under your own control

Self-hosting:

  • Reitti is designed to be deployed on your own infrastructure using Docker containers. We provide configuration templates to set up linked services like PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ and Redis that keep all your location data private.

Reitti is still early in development but has already developed extensive capabilities. I'd love to hear your feedback and answer any questions to tailor Reitti to meet the community's needs.

Hope this sparks some interest!

Daniel

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[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 49 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Fuck yeah this is awesome! The detail of Immich integration is just the icing on top of an awesome cake!

How demanding is it on server resources? Am I likely to be able to run it on an old Raspberry Pi that's also running a couple of other relatively light tasks? How much storage does it end up using over time? I'm probably going to try and get it running either on my Pi or my Synology NAS, though the latter has had issues with Docker containers in the past depending on the container's dependencies...

[–] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have no clue if a raspberry will handle it. There a a couple of services involved to make it fast, but they are then another burden like RabbitMQ. Which make ingesting data instantaneous but you need extra processing power to handle the queues. It all comes with a tradeoff.

For size, there is mainly the PostGIS DB. I just checked and my db is around 800 MB for roughtly 8 1/2 Years of data.

Photon (the reverse geocode enabled in the compose file) is another beast. For Germany it takes 14 GB of storage while running, if you let PARALLELL updates enabled you can double that every time the index is updated. But you can remove that from the compose file and rely on external Geocoders. It is described in https://github.com/dedicatedcode/reitti?tab=readme-ov-file#reverse-geocoding-options

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh interesting. I've just read through that link, and I was assuming that something similar to the "external only" option would have been the only way it worked. More specifically, I thought it'd just store a list of historical points and display those on an OSM overlay. But it seems like even "external only" is much more involved than that.

What happens with self-hosted Photon if you specify a country, but then also visit another country? (I assume in hybrid mode it's as simple as "use Photon in your country, use Nominatim otherwise?)

But yeah, definitely sounds like a Pi is probably not gonna cut it. I'll have to see if my Synology can do it, or if the weird OS restrictions Synology imposes prevent it.

[–] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago (7 children)

If you use Photon and only have your main country available, it will fallback to the configured external Geo-coding-services since Photon will not return a result then. So the order of execution is:

  • first try Photon
  • if it does not return anything, try to call one or all of the available Geo coding services.
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[–] acchariya@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Looks to be a java application with a number of services running alongside- I don't think it's going to be lightweight to run on resource constrained devices, but sweet project anyway! (Side note, no clue how you engineers find the time to hack on things like this, I feel like I've got so little time to myself I cannot imagine dedicating it to a project like this)

[–] scarilog@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My only concern is battery usage. Google has the advantage of OS integration, which skims location data for timeline history even when another app accesses location, which uses essentially no battery (since you would've been using location for that other app anyway).

But it's awesome that a tool like this exists anyways, great work.

[–] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Thank you :)

I understand your concerns, this is something every additional app would have to deal with.

For me it is ok to have GPSLogger running all the time, I think for what it is doing it is quite easy on the battery but I do not use my phone actively that much and I am happy if it survives a day which it does.

[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

I log my position every 5 seconds for years and gpslogger is not among any of the battery consuming processes if you use the device. If you don't use the phone at all, it will consume more power but that's no reason not to use it.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This looks amazing, congratulations and thank you for making it FOSS. I was wondering if you are considering integrating with Home Assistant.

[–] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Thanks :)

No, did not occur to me. What would the integration look like? Connecting it to the message bus to receive location updates? Honestly it is a couple years ago I played with HA.

[–] pyr0ball@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago

Home automation using geofencing, and my partner likes to get a notification when I'm heading home from the office

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago

Location sensor would be a good minimum bar.

A custom card for your app that is just basically a iframe into your app with auth would also be pretty decent. Your version of a map looks really nice.

Maybe surfacing metrics of distance traveled or number of geolocations.

I'll have to install the app and play around with it to make other recommendations but those are the first things that come to mind.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I have the HA app on my phone, it reports my location back to my HA server.

I would like if Reitti could retrieve my location from my HA server, instead of asking me to upload it again to Reitti. Uploading my location in short intervals drains the battery very fast, it's something I want to avoid if I can.

Additiinally, I don't want to expose anything to the internet. So I pay for the Home Assistant cloud subscription that does it for me in a more secure manner than what I could implement with the little free time I have. Reitti could retrieve my location more securely if it did so without exiting my LAN.

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[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

This looks good, I'm currently using dawarich and owntracks to track our families 5 week road trip around the south island of New Zealand (https://no.lastname.nz/post/1468113). If I can find a spare moment in our travels and a good internet connection I'll try and spin up an image and test it out.

One thing that I would love is to be able to have multiple people displayed on a single map (my wife [kids when they have their own phones with data], brother, mother and a few close friends - we already use google maps for this)

[–] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

That sounds like an awesome idea, actually the data is stored for every user separately depending on the used api token or when you login and do a data import. I will create a feature request for it.

But bear in mind, reitti is not meant to be a real-time tracking app. At the moment, data is processed every 10 minutes.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 3 days ago

Real time is nice, but not a must have at least for my use case.

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I managed to break our instance. I imported several years worth of google takeout location data, and now the "stay-detection-queue" is stalled.

[–] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Congratulations 😆

To help with that I would need some information:

  • does it show anything in the logs?
  • what do you mean by several years or how big was the Records.json?

Thank you for testing 🙂

[–] ada@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago (12 children)

It's a 1gig json file that has about 10 years of data. I get multiple repeats of the rabbit timeout in the logs. The Job Status section tells me that it's got just under 9 hours of processing remaining for just over 16,000 in the stay-detection-queue. The numbers change slightly, so something is happening, but it's been going for over 12 hours now, and the time remaining is slowly going up, not down.

***
[ntContainer#2-1] c.d.r.s.p.VisitDetectionService          : Detected 61806 stay points for user ada
reitti-1  | 2025-07-04T03:06:17.848Z  WARN 1
***
[ntContainer#2-1] o.s.a.r.l.SimpleMessageListenerContainer : Consumer raised exception, processing can restart if the connection factory supports it
reitti-1  |
reitti-1  | com.rabbitmq.client.ShutdownSignalException: channel error; protocol method: #method<channel.close>(reply-code=406, reply-text=PRECONDITION_FAILED - delivery acknowledgement on channel 9 timed out. Timeout value used: 1800000 ms. This timeout value can be configured, see consumers doc guide to learn more, class-id=0, method-id=0)
reitti-1  |     at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.BlockingQueueConsumer.checkShutdown(BlockingQueueConsumer.java:493) ~[spring-rabbit-3.2.5.jar!/:3.2.5]
reitti-1  |     at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.BlockingQueueConsumer.nextMessage(BlockingQueueConsumer.java:554) ~[spring-rabbit-3.2.5.jar!/:3.2.5]
reitti-1  |     at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer.doReceiveAndExecute(SimpleMessageListenerContainer.java:1046) ~[spring-rabbit-3.2.5.jar!/:3.2.5]
reitti-1  |     at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer.receiveAndExecute(SimpleMessageListenerContainer.java:1021) ~[spring-rabbit-3.2.5.jar!/:3.2.5]
reitti-1  |     at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer$AsyncMessageProcessingConsumer.mainLoop(SimpleMessageListenerContainer.java:1423) ~[spring-rabbit-3.2.5.jar!/:3.2.5]
reitti-1  |     at org.springframework.amqp.rabbit.listener.SimpleMessageListenerContainer$AsyncMessageProcessingConsumer.run(SimpleMessageListenerContainer.java:1324) ~[spring-rabbit-3.2.5.jar!/:3.2.5]
reitti-1  |     at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) ~[na:na]
reitti-1  | Caused by: com.rabbitmq.client.ShutdownSignalException: channel error; protocol method: #method<channel.close>(reply-code=406, reply-text=PRECONDITION_FAILED - delivery acknowledgement on channel 9 timed out. Timeout value used: 1800000 ms. This timeout value can be configured, see consumers doc guide to learn more, class-id=0, method-id=0)
reitti-1  |     at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.ChannelN.asyncShutdown(ChannelN.java:528) ~[amqp-client-5.25.0.jar!/:5.25.0]
reitti-1  |     at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.ChannelN.processAsync(ChannelN.java:349) ~[amqp-client-5.25.0.jar!/:5.25.0]
reitti-1  |     at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQChannel.handleCompleteInboundCommand(AMQChannel.java:193) ~[amqp-client-5.25.0.jar!/:5.25.0]
reitti-1  |     at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQChannel.handleFrame(AMQChannel.java:125) ~[amqp-client-5.25.0.jar!/:5.25.0]
reitti-1  |     at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQConnection.readFrame(AMQConnection.java:761) ~[amqp-client-5.25.0.jar!/:5.25.0]
reitti-1  |     at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQConnection.access$400(AMQConnection.java:48) ~[amqp-client-5.25.0.jar!/:5.25.0]
reitti-1  |     at com.rabbitmq.client.impl.AMQConnection$MainLoop.run(AMQConnection.java:688) ~[amqp-client-5.25.0.jar!/:5.25.0]
reitti-1  |     ... 1 common frames omitted
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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This looks amazing, and I will try it out once it has reasonable NixOS support.

I especially like the immich integration.

Does it increase battery consumption of the phone a lot?

[–] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 3 days ago

Reitti on its own does not run on your phone. It relies on external apps to track your GPS location like GPSLogger or Owntracks. They will increase the battery consumption but I think it is bearable. I personally have setup GPSLogger to fetch every 30 seconds a GPS location and then sends it every hour to reitti. With that i do not see that more power usage. Currently starting to test how the power drain is with a 15 seconds interval.

[–] beerclue@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

May I ask what you mean by NixOS support? There's a docker compose you could use in their repo...

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 3 points 3 days ago

Better open a package request (or pull request :D) then 😄

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

Visually this is gorgeous

Really nice work!

[–] gullmar@feddit.it 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Very very cool! I see that you can import GPX files: can you also do the opposite, i.e., export a GPX file for a selected time range?

[–] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was thinking about that, but the main problem is that we do not store all the data which comes in.

If we ingest data from an app, I am pretty sure that the quality of the data is actually usable. But for example if we import an Records.json from Google Takeout. The quality of the earlier years is somewhat sketchy. For this we filter out some points like travelling with over 2000 km/h, sudden direction changes etc and they are lost forever. At least for Reitti they are unknown.

The feature would need a lot of explanation why the data we export is not the same we import.That is the reason I did not implemented it even if it would come in handy for testing stuff. Handling GPX files is a pita ...

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[–] MrQuallzin@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

This is really awesome! I was just about to start looking for something like this, so great timing. Going to get this up on my Unraid server tomorrow and play around with it

[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That looks very neat. Thanks for starting this!

I guess this will directly compete with dawarich, right?

https://github.com/Freika/dawarich

[–] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would not say compete. They are different in how things are done from my point of view. I want to focus more on the visits we have done in the past to relive some lost memories whereas Dwarich looks more "technical" for me. I have no better words for it, I hope you get my point in what i am trying to achieve with Reitti. So there should be enough room for both 🙂

I also do not have any intentions to offer a hosted version in the foreseeable future or even anytime.

[–] illusionist@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I get what you mean. The focus is different of dawarich. I'm really looking forward into checking reitti out!

[–] Atropos@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is really neat, I'm going to spin it up tomorrow!

[–] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Let me know how it worked out. I am deploying it to my server via docker without an problems, but maybe they are some quirks i missed. :D

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[–] emrsmsrli@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What's the difference from Dawarich, if I may ask? Beside from a better name :)

[–] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Thanks :) As a German I really like the name Dawarich. First it sound really nice for me but also that "Da war ich" means "There have i been" in german makes, at least for me, an awesome project name.

Take this with a grain of salt because I have no idea what the plans are for Dawarich or have ever been and this is solely based on my external view. For me the main differences are:

  • visits and trips are our main data, everything else is just the way to calculate them. For Dawarich it looks to me, that it is the other way around. It displays all the location data in good way with the heatmap and so on but visits or places seems so tacked on. This should not be an offense against it. I actually still have an instance running and it was the main pushing point to finally start working on Reitti.
  • the sleek UI but this depends on your taste

In the end, they are not that far off. Maybe a matter of taste.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Cool!

I love the UI for this one, it's unique compared to the others

[–] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Thanks otter, I tried to have a historical look. Like going to the past and revive some memories. Hope it worked out. I am actually pretty happy with it.

[–] pfr@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hell yes! I turned off location data for immich but now I can use this!

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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I still have a phone containing Google, and cannot change this situation (maybe with my next phone). Usually, I switch off location services very often and I avoid such tracking apps because all my data goes to Google then.

Would it be advisable to use this at all before I get rid of Google?

[–] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Hello @Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org, i usually use GPSLogger for Android to track my location during the day and this periodically sends the data to reitti whenever i am back at home. I have no idea if you switch off location services what happens on the GPSLogger side of the chain. If it still be able to access GPS I see no problem, if not than this sadly will break the usecase for reitti.

It relies on a consistent GPS tracking data to be able to do its thing

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[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I'd love to see an integration with PhotoStructure in addition to Immich.

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[–] nieceandtows@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

I've been putting off setting up an immich server. Would this do well if hosted on the same machine?

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I love that it supports multiple formats for important location as well as multiple geocoders. But that makes me wonder, would it be feasible to support multiple image libraries? There's a bunch of different FOSS photo libraries out there. I think Nextcloud is the main other one I've heard about 'in the wild', as it were. Or is there too much bespoke Immich code in there for that to be a simple plug-and-play option?

[–] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

no, that would not be a problem as soon as the other image library has an api reitti could query. It just happens that I am settled with immich and had no other needs at the moment.

If you need a specific one, drop a feature request and I will have a look.

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[–] someacnt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am slightly bothered by how the logo is quite off-center, is it intentional?

[–] danielgraf@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 days ago

It was not intentional but after bothering not about it because i had other things on my mind i got used to it and now like it the way it is.

But for everyone who is bothered by that. If Reitti reaches 1k stars on Github I will add a switch to use a centered one 😊

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