Determine the logic behind the Vectronic data ID

[HansMartinMT]

We want to determine if we can use the data point ID to allow us to access data starting after a previous download. If the data point ID's are unique to 'our' collars, this could allow us to use a single ID to access for all of the collars instead of having a unique data point ID for each collar.

[rgzn]

By data point ID, do you mean the first column in a vectronic text file? Eg. the "2674" in the following snippet:

2674 16245 2019-01-01 20:00:31 2019-01-01 12:00:31

Just curious if I can help answer your question. I have lots of these to look at. At first glance, they appear to just increment with each position record for a collar. Not unique to collars or accounts.

[Huh]

Yeah, one guess is that they increment across some large set of collars or even all active collars?

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[Huh]

@HansMartinMT or @foresthayes can you please respond to this question "By data point ID, do you mean the first column in a vectronic text file?"

[foresthayes]

Using collar::fetch_vectronics the first column I get back is "idPosition". Below are the last 50 values for a single collar. I have not been able to figure out what these values relate to although they do seem to always increase. Note that the increment is often ~50,000 but is also highly variable.

  [1] 68532723 68583097 68674209 68721084 68771585 68822193 68870519 68919401
  [9] 68969061 69014782 69061304 69201464 69394297 69628966 69675247 69721153
 [17] 69765153 69809496 69902881 69955247 70003498 70053520 70101822 70153965
 [25] 70202041 70252035 70303758 70354692 70744163 70865104 70922193 71037156
 [33] 71096907 71151995 71209254 71262657 71317654 71371761 71479678 71482467
 [41] 71519533 71597320 71651912 71710344 71774644 71834846 71918915 72014790
 [49] 72120079 72127339