Live hunt

Learn how to start, join and end a live hunt where participants see each other's positions on the map in real time.

What is a live hunt?

A live hunt is a session where participants share their GPS position with the rest of the team during the hunt itself. The purpose is safety: knowing where your fellow hunters are reduces the risk of accidents involving line of fire and movement.

Two roles exist within a session:

• Sharing: your phone uploads your position roughly every ten seconds, even when the screen is locked or the phone is in your pocket.
• Viewer: you see other hunters on the map but do not share your own position.

Start a hunt

You can start a live hunt two ways:

1. From a calendar event: open the event, RSVP attending, tap Start live hunt. Other attending participants get a push notification that the hunt is on.
2. Ad-hoc: from the home map, tap Start live hunt. The whole team gets a push notification.

Pick a duration in hours (1 to 24, default 24). The session auto-ends when the time runs out. You can also turn auto-close off if you do not want any time limit. The session always auto-ends if no one shares a position for 4 hours.

Share your position

The first time you share, the phone asks for:

1. Location While In Use: to display the map
2. Background location: to keep sharing when the screen is off

Allow both. On Android, a persistent notification appears while you share; tap it to stop sharing.

Keep the app running

Live hunt does not work if you force-quit the app. On Android, sharing usually survives power-saver mode, but on iOS sharing stops if you push the app away from the app switcher.

Pause and resume sharing

The live hunt now lives directly on the team map. While you share, a Pause sharing button appears in the hunt controls. Tap it to temporarily stop sending your position. On Android you can also tap the persistent notification.

While paused you stay in the session and continue to see other hunters' positions. Tap Resume sharing to start sharing again.

End the hunt

Whoever started the session, or a secretary/team lead, can tap End hunt in the hunt controls on the map. All participants stop sharing and the session enters replay mode with the full track from the hunt.

Requires administrator role or session starter

Only the session starter or a secretary/team lead can end the hunt. Regular participants can leave the session but cannot end it for others.

Everything happens on the map

The live hunt used to have its own session screen. Today all the controls live on the regular team map, so you can start, share, log events, and end without jumping between screens. Active hunts also show a banner at the top of the home screen, tap Open or Join active hunt to jump straight to the map.

Safety indicators on the map

While a hunt is in progress the map shows extra safety overlays to help you keep track of other participants before you raise a rifle:

• Distance rings: tap the rings button to draw 100 m, 250 m and 500 m circles around your own position. Useful for quickly judging whether a team-mate is within shot range.
• Scent / wind cone: a cone drawn in the direction you are facing (with wind strength from the weather layer). Only active once the phone's compass is calibrated. Trace a figure-eight in the air with your phone if the button looks greyed out.
• "No-shoot" arrows: if a sharing team-mate is off-screen, an orange arrow appears at the edge of the map with their name and distance. The arrow always points toward the person regardless of how you pan the map.
• Follow me: centres the map on your own position and keeps it centred while you move. Tap again to stop following.

Calibrate the compass

The wind and shot cones require the phone's compass to be calibrated. Trace a figure-eight in the air with your phone until the calibration indicator disappears. Without calibration the cone is greyed out or not shown.

Viewing from the web

The web app at app.jaktli.se shows live and ended hunts at /hunt/<id>. You can view but not start or share. The web viewer auto-joins as a viewer.

The web viewer also draws the team's map markers, areas and boundary lines on top of the live positions. Tap a marker or area to see details, exactly as on mobile.

Hunt room info

In the event chat for the hunt event, tap the room title to open Chat info, where you can see every RSVP'd participant with their team role and attending status. Handy for confirming who is actually on the ground without leaving the map.

Hunt chat

When a hunt starts, a dedicated chat is created for that hunt. The chat stays available after the hunt ends, so you can keep talking about it afterwards.

On the map, once you have joined the hunt, a chat-bubble button appears between the plus button and the radio button. Tap it to open the hunt chat directly.

You can also reach the chat from the summary of a finished hunt: tap "Hunt chat" at the top of the page.

Who can see the chat:

• If the hunt is linked to a calendar event: everyone who RSVP'd attending to that event can read and write.
• If the hunt is not linked to an event: only those who joined the hunt itself can read and write.

Stale participants

Two staleness thresholds apply:

• Visual staleness (5 minutes): if a hunter has not reported a new position for five minutes, their marker is greyed out with the label "Stale". Common causes: phone in poor coverage, battery dead, app force-closed. The session is still running.
• Auto-end (4 hours): if no participant at all has reported a position for 4 hours, the system ends the session automatically. The session then appears in replay mode with the existing tracks.

If position sharing gets paused (Android)

Some Android phones (notably OnePlus, Samsung, Xiaomi) shut down apps that work in the background to save battery. If this happens during a hunt, your teammates may stop seeing your position even though the app looks fine.

When Jaktli detects that position sharing has paused, the app shows a warning bar at the top of the map: "Others may not see your position". Tap Resume to restart sharing.

To avoid the pause altogether:

1. Open Settings on your phone.
2. Look for Battery or Apps.
3. Find Jaktli in the list.
4. Choose Don't restrict or Allow in background.

This lets the app keep sending your position even when the screen is off.

Log events during the hunt

On the map you can mark important events at the exact spot where they happened. Tap the event button and pick a type:

• Sighting: you have seen game
• Downed game: an animal has been shot and fallen
• Wounded game: an animal is injured and needs tracking

Pick a species from the list, or type a custom name with Other species. Add a note and a photo if you like. The marker is saved at the exact spot you tapped on the map, but you can also adjust the location before saving.

Markers appear as icons on the map for everyone in the hunt. Tap a marker to read the note. The person who created the marker can remove it.

Personal data processing

When you share, your coordinates are stored in the Jaktli database. Processing is based on consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) for participant safety during the hunt. Data is retained until the hunt, your participation, or your account is deleted. See Privacy policy for the full set of rights.