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Location Screen

The Location screen provides functionality that allows the system user to get the location of the device, start/stop tracking that device and create geofences.

Get Current Location

This sends a command to the device that retrieves its current location. How fast a device can acquire a GPS lock can vary and is subject aa few things:

• The quality of the device, higher end phones will have better and more reliable components.
• Whether the phone is indoors or not. GPS works better when in plain view of the satellites.
• If the device is in power save mode or has low battery power
• GPS must be enabled on the device.

The Devreach Android app will attenpt to look for GPS for a maximum of 45 seconds, after which the request will be cancelled; This is to preserve batter power as GPS can drain battery quite quickly.

To get the current location of a device, click Get Current location(s) button.

The following popup will appear. NB. Please note you can also add this command to any groups.