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Geotab API Endpoints Truck Location Tracking suddenly not working

JGrat-2068
Original Poster

On 9/3/2021 at Approx 13:34 Hours -6 UTC, my Custom CURL based Endpoint Fetching using the API Ednpoints to store into my MySQL Database stopped being able to receive Truck locations and some other info. My Cronjob returns completely blank data now on Truck locations and incomplete or no data on a few other things, like old odo readings was noticed. Not sure yet with the fall out what other functions are also failing. Our customers cannot track Freight on our Web System without updates coming in.

 

The developer who wrote all of this is long gone working at Big Corp X and using a Custom Solution from 2017 is dangerous without full documentation and with Geotab constantly evolving. We need a budget friendly solution to modernize our integration.

 

**Edit - Removed PHP Code for privacy now that situation is "resolved"?

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Hey @JGrat-2068​,

 

Unfortunately this is probably too complex (for me at least) to try to diagnose over the Geotab Community. If you want to set up a meeting to talk through what's happening though, I'd be happy to look at it. We offer custom software development services too so we could look at fixing this temporarily and rebuilding it for you too. For the API version, I think you're referring to the API Adapter which is on version 3, but the API is still v1 so you're not using an out of date API or anything currently. If you want to set something up, just send me an email tucker@bluearrowmail.com and we can schedule something for early next week. If this is a true emergency and you need to talk before the weekend, we can set something up today before the end of the day too, just let me know.

 

Thanks,

Tucker

JGrat-2068
Original Poster

I'll give you an email but i'm open to anyone willing to look at this, i am thinking they suddenly deprecated something. I have a ticket in with support but they don't know what to do currently and are escalating it a second time. https://my.geotab.com/apiv1/ --- Version 11.89.274 is what we're using.

 Also for reference, i know many people assume most users are on the Opensource API Adapter, but we are not. We integrated to Geotab with a custom solution a few years before the Adapter became available, and it is using Datamodel 1 which is being sunset around december with a 6-12 month grace period from my understand, but from what I gather, we'd only need to swap out the API end points we are requesting data from to fix up what we use if we don't replace it.

JGrat-2068
Original Poster

Geotab escalated this up over a day and a half and got to Gabrielle or Gabreilla, and i was never contacted back, but after being notified that it was escalated a third time, it started working. I'd love to know what happened. My boss demands answers.

EishiFUN
Geotabber

Hey @JGrat-2068​ I took a look at your ticket and it looks like you talked with support a little more about this. Please let me know if their answers were satisfactory or if you have any other questions about it.

 

Have a good weekend!

Eishi FUN

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