Geosnitch

What is it?

A quick Rust project to track my laptop. It's still in development, but the end idea is to leave it running as a service that reports back my laptop's location periodically to an outside server.

I'm currently using GeoClue as a location provider and MQTT to report location. I'd like to make this more flexible and modular in the future, particularly since GeoClue is a Linux specific D-Bus service

Other glaring flaws currently include the fact that the location data is sent over plain TCP, so anyone can read the packets right now. Encryption would be prudent.

Using it

You'll need to be using a Linux machine with D-Bus and GeoClue installed and running. Create a file named mqtt-auth.json in the crate root with the following content

{
  "server":"server:port",
  "username":"account_username", (NOTE: optional)
  "password":"account_password", (NOTE: optional)
  "client_id":"client_id",
  "topic":"publish_topic",
  "send_period": 10              (NOTE: optional. Default every 10 sec)
}

Build and run cargo run