Location Device Manager is a microservice built with Express and Bookshelf. It allows connected applications to pass the phone numbers of location devices (right now, only the Android A8 GPS GSM tracker is supported) and ping them. The results are stored as a mobile event in the database, and can be retrieved via API calls. We currently use SMS as the device control channel, and Nexmo as the SMS gateway provide.

It provides a convenient way to manage locational devices and their event history.

Location Device Manager uses Bookshelf to manage RDBMS databases (in the example, I'm using MySQL, but it's trivial to switch to PostgreSQL or SQLite) to store device identifiers. Tasks are coming soon (the ability to set up a schedule and an expiration to ping devices).

Make sure you have MySQL set up and available. Then:

$ git clone https://github.com/boriskogan81/location-device-manager.git
//...change to /location-device-manager directory
$ npm install

//Copy the files in the config_templates folder into the config folder at root level, 
//make adjustments as necessary
//Run initial Knex migration:

$ knex migrate:latest

$ npm start

Use Location Device Manager as a service to manage location devices, or any other SMS-based device.

Location Device Manager uses in-memory SQLite for testing. The databases interface is the same (Bookshelf/Knex) as for the normal app. Migrations run on every test run, to ensure that the structure of the database is up to date, and when the tests are done running, any stored data/tables disappear.

$ npm run test

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.

MIT