This a followup to my previous post about setting up OwnTracks on a home server running NixOS. One step of that process was to download the OwnTracks Frontend single page application zip archive and copy it into /var/www/html/owntracks to be served by Nginx. Now I'd like to …

In an effort to reduce my reliance on big tech I recently decided to try using OwnTracks to replace Google Maps Timeline. This article provides a rundown of how I accomplished this using an existing home server running NixOS and my existing Tailnet.

Background

For various reasons I find it …