Wialon or a GPS feed: which to choose

Solmex can learn where your machines are in two ways. It can fetch their positions from Wialon Hosting itself, or your trackers can send positions to Solmex through a GPS feed. This page helps you choose; the setup steps are in the linked articles.

#Before you start

• Live Map, and the Wialon connection, are each switched on per company rather than by plan. If you do not see them, contact Solmex.
• Either way, someone with Settings: Edit sets up the connection on the GPS feed tab of Settings, and someone with Equipment: Edit binds each tracker to its machine.

#Compare the two

#Choose Wialon when

• Your trackers already report to Wialon Hosting.
• You do not have anyone to build or run an integration.
• Your Wialon unit names include each machine's equipment number, so Solmex can suggest the bindings.

Only Wialon Hosting is supported, on Wialon's own servers. A Wialon Local installation on your own server cannot be connected this way; use a GPS feed instead, with a script that reads from Wialon Local.

#Choose a GPS feed when

• Your trackers report to another platform, or you run your own.
• You want positions sent the moment they are taken, rather than collected once a minute.
• You already have Wialon connections in use: a company can have at most three.

#What is the same either way

Positions from both routes are treated identically. They are kept for 30 days to draw each machine's day track, they add an entry to the machine's location history only when the machine changes Sublocation or an hour has passed, and a position outside every Sublocation is never moved to the nearest one. You can also use both: some machines through Wialon and others through a GPS feed.

#Troubleshooting