[Owncloud] Introducing device tracking feature to ownCloud was: ideas for GSoC 2013

[Thomas Tanghus]

On Thursday 14 March 2013 04:39:24 Qingping Hou wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Thomas Tanghus <thomas at tanghus.net> wrote:
> > I haven't studied Prey much, but will this still use their service, or
> > will it run independably on ones ownCloud instance?
> > The latter would of course be the awesomest ;)
> 
> Glad that you like it :)
> 
> It will be a standalone ownCloud app. We want to take complete control
> over own our own data, that's why we use ownCloud ;p

Exactly :)

> The sad news is I cannot figure out how to choose alternative server in
> Prey's android app. But since it's opensource, we can easily hack on it.

Or find out if the config for the server is hard-coded. Would be great if the 
only requirenment was to change a config file. But you have perhaps already 
checked that?

If the code is well separated,  it should be feasible to make clients for 
other linux based devices - Plasma Active for example :)

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Best regards / Med venlig hilsen

Thomas Tanghus