Hello! I am a beginner coder working on an app that can hopefully help track shuttles within my school's campus. It basically streams the line (Line A or Line B), operating status (Active or Inactive), capacity (Full or Available), speed (km/h), heading (currently does not work) and location (coordinates) to an API WebSocket every 3 seconds. I was testing the app by driving around and I noticed that the location barely changes, so on the website that my friend made I seemed to teleport every 10-20 seconds. I was wondering if there is a way to fix this issue by streamlining my code or is it really just a problem caused by a weak signal/data. Any tips would be greatly appreciated not just by me but future users of the shuttle tracker! Attached are a few photos of my code. I know it's not the best, but it seems to work except the coordinates dont change as expected. Thank you! 
How did you set DistanceInterval and TimeInterval? Sensors
Also it might make aense to set the Provider to gps and lock it for better signal; see a snippet here
Taifun
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In addition to the suggestions provided in Taifun's post
Things to consider:
- Speed calculation requires that there be at least 2 LocationChanged events must fire prior to providing a value.
- checking and or posting location etc. every 2 to 3 seconds may be impractical. The LS doen't get an updated satellite fix that rapidly.
- Factors like Accuracy of the satellite fix need to be considered. Perhaps you need to not use satellite fixes > than about 10 meters when you display locations.
- Your app does not have a StayAwake route or a Foreground or Background capability. When your reporting screen goes to sleep, it might go to sleep.
- Your Clock might be firing too frequently (3 seconds
)to capture all the data you are collecting. - Where are you getting the heading information from? Are you using an extension (the LocationSensor doesn't provide a heading but some extensions do.
- you might re-read Using the Location Sensor
Were you posting to a Map using Map component or just reading the latitude/longitude?
Apps like this usually require access to the app in order to be debugged
Here is a tutorial (made a long time ago that works) that shows a way to post a bus (shuttle) location How to broadcast a GPS location and share the information on a map with others in real time..CloudDB Perhaps there are some ideas you can use?
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