Geofence Accuracy

[hastyeagle]

Quick question on how geofences/regions work. If I have a region setup and am passing through that region, is it always the case that Owntracks will see both the enter/leave events? Or does it only check if it's in a region every locatorInterval seconds? i.e., if I pass through the region without it checking during that time, will it still send the enter/leave events, or will it not?

[growse]

In short, it depends!

If you're on the Google Play version, it'll use the Google libs for geofencing, which should fire an event at OT every time the device detects that it enters / leaves a geofenced radius.

On the OSS version, it reverts to polling. So if you enter and then leave a geofence in between receiving a location message, then it won't detect the entry / exit.